During the same session, the Law on Senior Managers, the Law on the Use of Energy from Renewable Sources, and the Law on Weapons were also passed.

Meanwhile, the vote on the Draft Law on Civil Procedure will be scheduled at a later date.

Opposition lawmakers did not vote for the two laws, arguing that these solutions are not reform-oriented in nature and that they pursue the objectives of the Reform Agenda only at a declarative level. On the other hand, representatives of the parliamentary majority said the legal acts were adopted through a democratic process and include the two key demands of the affected parties, related to their status and income.

According to the opposition, these two laws will not guarantee independence, impartiality, and development in the judicial services and in the public prosecution services.

“This is a law that is far from reformist, far from what is envisaged by the Reform Agenda. We have a law that only declaratively follows the goals of the Reform Agenda. Instead of strengthening the independence of the public prosecution, some provisions preserve the mechanisms through which the executive branch exerts influence,” Jovana Trençevska of LSDM said from the parliamentary rostrum.

Responding to these criticisms was MP Ljupço Prenxhov of OBRM-PDUKM, who assessed that the country would be among those that have implemented reforms the fastest and most efficiently, and that benefit the most from European Union funds.

“You, as the opposition, have two options. The first option is to come out and say that you could have adopted all these legal solutions that are now being passed, but you did not. We were at the bottom among the countries of the Western Balkans; today we are first and we are leading. Secondly, as for the legal solutions, everyone connected to these two legal solutions was invited in the most democratic way. They had two major objections — first, that they did not want a single denar cut from their salaries, and that they did not want to lose the status of judicial or public prosecution officials. It happened that we worked with delays and accepted both remarks,” Prenxhov said.

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