NEW GOVERNMENT TO BE ELECTED BY MIDNIGHT
admin1 – August 24, 2006 – 12:24pm
Macedonian Parliament

The parliamentary majority and the opposition agreed yesterday that the assembly session for election of the new Government should end the latest by 24:00 tomorrow.

The coordinators of the VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, PDSH, NSDP, and VMRO-NP parliamentary groups made this gentleman's agreement at yesterday's coordination with Assembly Chairman Ljubisa Georgievski. This meeting was not attended by a representative of the parliamentary group of BDI, which will decide today whether it will attend the assembly session for election of the Government.

The Assembly will be under increased security tomorrow as a result of the announced protests of BDI. Assembly Chairman Ljubisa Georgievski asked the coordinators of the parliamentary groups yesterday to inform the parliamentarians to not park their vehicles in the circle of the Parliament tomorrow so that incidents could be avoided.