ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

COMMITTEE ON THE POLITICAL SYSTEM AND INTER-ETNIC RELATIONS

E-mail: k-polsis@sobranie.mk

The Committee on Political System and Relations Among the Communities has a Chairperson, fourteen members and their deputies.

The Committee considers questions regarding the:

• functioning of the political system;
• changes of the borders of the Republic;
• state symbols and their use;
• judiciary, bar, and public prosecutor’s office;
• amnesty and granting a pardon;
• freedom of movement and freedom of choosing a place of residence;
• register books and protection of personal data;
• personal names, identity cards and travelling documents;
• census;
• public information system;
• the right of citizens to associate and establish political organizations,
• voting right and method of election of members of Parliament, President of the Republic of Macedonia, members of the councils and mayors;
• referendum;
• ombudsman;
• Macedonian Orthodox Church, as well as the Islamic Religious Community in Macedonia, the Catholic Church, the Evangelical Methodist Church of Macedonia, the Jewish Community and other religious communities and groups;
• awarding decorations, acknowledgements and rewards;
• holidays in the Republic of Macedonia;
• organization of the state administration;
• right of use of languages and alphabets of the communities;
• guaranteeing of protection of the ethnic, cultural, linguistic and religious identity of the communities,
• establishment of international cooperation on issues referring to the political system and interethnic relations and
• other questions from the domain of the political system and the relations among the communities.