After a break of a few months, the members of the State Census Commission are going to convene Wednesday in order to put into practice the political agreement between VMRO-DPMNE and BDI. Before the elections, the Census Commission was boycotted by its ethnic Albanian and Turkish members for they disagreed with the decision that the census teams should be ethnically mixed and insisted that they be formed solely of Albanians or Macedonians in the ethnically homogenous communities.

If problems occur in the implementation of the agreement, the composition of the Census Commission may change too but this information has not yet been officially confirmed.

“I had contacts with certain members of the Government and I received signals from them that there would be no problems. We have retained our position that the two major ethnic groups in a municipality would comprise the census teams,” says Vesna Janevska, president of the Census Commission.