METODIJA ANDONOV- CHENTO

 

Metodija Andonov-Chento comes from a poor rural family.  He was born in Prilep, on 17 August 1902. When he was very young he cooperated with the younger intellectuals in the city, and he was noticed as a separatist and autonomist who motivated the people and undermined the King's authority, for which he was imprisoned for several months. He encouraged Macedonian children to learn the Macedonian language and to speak it freely. Following the Serbs, Bulgarians took over the power and sent him to a concentration camp, where he was imprisoned until 1943. Chento joined the partisans on 1 October 1943.

He was a salesman, well respected because of his honesty and patriotism he openly expressed. As a distinguished citizen, he was involved in the political life of Prilep. At the elections held in 1938, as an independent candidate at the list of the opposition, he won majority of the votes. It was decided, however, that he did not get elected as an independent deputy because of the manipulation of the election system by the authorities of the greater Serbia. Chento was one of the organisers of the Ilinden demonstrations in Prilep in 1939, and for this he was imprisoned in Velika Kikinda. Since 1940 he was advocating the use of the mother tongue in the education and again was imprisoned in Bajina Bashta. 

During the Bulgarian Occupation, he was sent to the “Chuchuligovo” prison camp, in Petrich. After the imprisonment, in October 1943, he passed over to the liberated territory and joined the Initiative Committee for convening the ASNOM meeting. Soon he was elected President of the Committee.
     
On 2 August 1944, as participant in the First Meeting of ASNOM, he was elected the President of the Presidium of this highest state body of the Democratic Federal Macedonia, later renamed People’s Republic of Macedonia. As is well known, the major historical decisions, upon which the Macedonian state was established, were adopted at this Meeting. He was also a Delegate and Member of AVNOJ. 

Metodija Andonov – Chento was elected as President of the Presidium on the Second Meeting of ASNOM, on 29 and 30 December 1944. He was the first President of the National Assembly of PRM. 

In his political attitudes he advocated greater independence of the Republic with regard to the Federal bodies. At the same time, he raised the issue of the unification of Macedonia. These views were in conflict with the official policy. 

In 1946 he was excluded from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and he resigned from all the positions he held. He was accused of nationalism – that he wanted the People’s Republic of Macedonia to break away from the Federation and placed under American protectorate. He was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment, and was in prison until September 1955. He died in Prilep on 24 July 1957. 

He was rehabilitated in 1991, when Macedonia proclaimed its complete independence and sovereignty.

                                                                 BORIS SPIROV

Dr. Boris Spirov was born in the village of Brzdani, Kichevo, on 22 September 1898. He was from a family of farmers, some of whose members emigrated, and some others were involved in the revolutionary movement. His father and his uncle were village elders, taking part in the Macedonian revolutionary movement for liberation. Dr. Boris Spirov himself was member of VMRO-United.

He finished primary school in his village and three high school grades in the local Pro-gymnasium, which the students called “intern of the egzarchs”, at the same time working as a shepherd and farmer.

He continued his education in Sofia, where his father opened a bar, which was inherited by Spirov’s brother, and Boris worked there in order to secure finances for further education. In 1919 he successfully completed the gymnasium in Sofia. In 1921 he began his medical studies in Austria.

He continued his medial studies in Leipzig (Germany), where he graduated in 1928, and later acquired PhD degree in the field of medical sciences. For a while he worked as a doctor in Pleven (Bulgaria), and later opened private practice in Pleven.

In 1928 he was member of the Bulgarian Labour Party, and from 1931 he was member of the illegal Communist Party of Bulgaria. Because of his communist activities he was often prosecuted, imprisoned, tortured and even sentenced to death twice and pardoned in the last moment. As President of the District Committee of the National Front of Pleven (Bulgaria), he actively participated in the taking over of the authority from the fascists on 9 September 1944, and he also participated in the organisation of the new authority of the people.

On 20 September 1944 he took active participation as a volunteer in the “Goce Delchev” brigade, established in Sofia, and was the Head of the medical service. He had the same position in Pehcevo, in the headquarters of the Bregalnica-Strumica corpus.

On 27 September he became member of ASNOM, as people’s deputy from Kichevo, and from December of that year he was Secretary of the Presidium of ASNOM. At the same time he was member of the Executive Committee of UNLF (Unified National Liberation Front). On 16 April 1945 he was re-elected as first Secretary of the Presidium of the National Assembly of the People’s Republic of Macedonia.

In 1946 he was appointed Minister of Social Affairs, and in November 1946 he was elected as President of the Constitutive Assembly of the People’s Republic of Macedonia. Later he was appointed as the first Vice-President of the Presidium of the National Assembly.
He was one of the founders of the Medical Faculty in Skopje, and took part in its further activities, performing leading function, such as Director of the Teacher’s Department and a Professor.

                                                      LJUPCHO ARSOV

 

Revolutionary, statesman, national hero and one of the most distinguished and most active social and political workers and leaders in the Republic of Macedonia. Born on 19 May 1910 in Stip in a salesman’s family that was actively involved in the National Liberation Movement of the Macedonian People since the Ottoman Empire and between the two World Wars.  

As an adolescent he was included in the youth and workers’ movement.  He was member of the CP of Yugoslavia since June 1940. He was Secretary of the Party’s cell and member of the First Regional Committee of CPY in Belgrade. In June 1941, after imprisonment in Belgrade, by order from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia he went to work in Stip.

Before World War II, as an accountant, he worked in the Association of the bankers, insurers and trade and industry workers in Belgrade. As member of the District Committee of Stip and Bitola, in 1941 he participated in the preparations of the armed struggle in Macedonia, which started on 11 October 1941. 

In the spring of 1942 until March 1943 he was in Bulgarian prisons and camps because of his activities in the liberation movement. From June 1942 he was Member of the Regional Committee of CPY for Macedonia, member of the Interim Committee of the Headquarters of the National Liberation Movement and the partisan squads in Macedonia. 

After his return from prison he was Secretary of the Fourth Regional Committee of CPM and member and Secretary of the Fifth Regional Committee of CMP. Until autumn 1943 he was member of the Headquarters of the Fifth Operational Zone and leader of the actions and activities of the Kozjak Partisan squad. Since 1944 until the Fourth Congress of CPM he was member of the Central Committee of CPM, and from the Fifth until the Eight Congress he was member of the Central Committee of CPY. 

On the First Session of ASNOM he was elected as Secretary of the Presidium (Presidency of ASNOM). He was elected as Vice-President and Minister of Finances in the first Macedonian People’s Government, and then as President of the Committee for State Control of Macedonia.  

From January 1948 until December 1953 he was Minister of Labour in the Federal Government of Yugoslavia. In the period 1953 to 1960 he was President of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, and member of the Federal Executive Council in the period 1960-1962. From 26 June 1962 until 24 June 1963 he was President of the People’s Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. From 1963 to 1967 he was President of the Republic’s Conference of SSRNM. 

In the same period he was again President of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. From 1967 to 1971 he was Vice-President of the United Conference of SSRNY, member of the Yugoslav Federation Council, and after 1979 he was member of the Presidency of SRM, as well as its President. Until 1974 Arsov was elected in every mandate of the Assembly of SRM and in the Federal Assembly. 

He is a national hero of Yugoslavia and Hero of the Socialist Labour. He was also awarded Partisan Memorial 1941. He tragically lost his life in 1986.

                                                     DIMITAR NESTOROV

 

Born in Struga on 10 June 1890. Attended elementary school in his home town, and completed classical gymnasium in Bitola in 1909. A year later he worked as a teacher in Struga, after that leaving for Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied medicine. Full of progressive and revolutionary ideas, he was immediately involved in the progressive student movement in Geneva, and was one of the organizers of the movement for free Macedonia. He was author of the text of the Memorandum adopted at the international conference of the League of Nations held in 1919 in Berlin which promoted in the European public the demand for recognition of the Macedonian nation and state.

In Switzerland Nestorov led with great enthusiasm the activities of the student organization, members of which were many of the Macedonians studying in Geneva, Zurich and Lausanne. The main mottos of the Macedonian students were: ”Macedonia to the Macedonians”, “Free Macedonia” and “Independent Macedonia”. 

After graduation in 1921, Nestorov went back to Struga, and later worked and lived in Bitola. Very soon, because of his attitude towards the citizens, he became well known and was nicknamed the “people’s doctor”. In 1924 malaria and other infectious diseases struck Bitola and the surroundings. Dr. Dimitar Nestorov and his team of dedicated young doctors had an important contribution in the eradication of the diseases.  

During the occupation, Nestorov was actively involved in the people’s movement. The first People Liberation Council, whose President he later became, was established in his house. His political activity was noticed by the occupational forces and soon he was arrested and transported to Bulgaria to serve his sentence.

Together with Dr. Vukasin Popadic, his wife Mirjam, Dr.Duma and Dr.Trifun Panovski, he organized the collection of medical supplies and other kind of help for the newly established military units of the partisans. He actively participated in the People’s Liberation Movement in the partisan base near Demir Hisar. In 1944, at the height of the preparations for the First Session of ASNOM he was appointed as a co-member and later, on 30 December that year, he became member of the Presidium of ASNOM. In April 1945 he was appointed Minister of Health Care and he initiated the establishment of the Medical Faculty in Skopje.

In the period from 30 December 1946 to 30 December 1947 dr. Boris Spirov was President of the People’s Assembly, and after he left the position, Dimitar Nestorov took over this position and performed it with great success until 3 January 1951. 

Nestorov also worked as director in the Ministry of Health Care. Later he settled in Bitola where he was director of the town’s hospital and health care representative of the Government for Bitola and the surroundings. He was also member of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia and of the Federation, and performed other high ranking duties.

In 1945 he was awarded the Order of Merit of second degree, and in 1961 he received the Order of Labour with Golden Wreath. He retired in 1964. Dimitar Nestorov died on 7 February 1968.

                                                    DIMCE STOJANOV - MIRE

 




Dimce Stojanov - Mire participated in the People’s Liberation Movement and was member of the Presidium of ASNOM. He was born in 1910 in Prilep and graduated history from the University in Belgrade. From 1935 until 1940 he worked as a professor in Prilep, and later in Kratovo and Lovec (Bulgaria). He was actively involved in the communist movement.

Because of his anti-fascist activities he was sent to the concentration camp Cuculigovo (Pirin Macedonia). After getting out of prison, he took part in the battles of the Second People’s Liberation Brigade, and later he joined the Fifth Brigade. He was elected member of ASNOM, and on its Second Sitting he was elected member of the Presidium responsible for education. 

After the liberation Dimce Stojanov - Mire was appointed on high ranking state and political positions, including President of the National Assembly of the People’s Republic of Macedonia. His was elected unanimously President on 4 January 1951 by all the members of the Assembly. After the election he addressed the members of the Assembly with the words:

“We, on our part, will try to prove worthy of this great honour and trust, and with our work we will strive to contribute to the overall efforts of our people to build socialism.”

At the same session the President of the Assembly informed the people’s representatives that after the Second Sitting the National Assembly has received numerous telegrams from all over the PR Macedonia asking the National Assembly, as the highest body of the people’s authority, to adopt a law on abolishing the use of veil. 

Dimce Stojanov also championed the strict use of the Constitution and demanded from the representatives to make efforts for further strengthening of socialist democracy in order to improve the situation and to intensify the moral and political unity of the Macedonian people, strengthen the brotherhood and unity of our nation with the other nations and nationalities. 

Dimce Stojanov - Mire also worked as director of the Archives of Macedonia in the period 1960-1978. He died in Skopje in 1991.

                                             VIDOE SMILEVSKI - BATO

For more than four decades Vidoe Smilevski - Bato was on the forefront of the Revolution whenever his Party needed him. As an established and hard-working fighter for the revolutionary movement - organizer within the Party, leader, statesman, versatile social worker, wherever he worked, he left his lasting trace that was embedded in the freedom of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. Bato had vast revolutionary experience.

He was born on 14 August 1915 in the village of Nikiforovo near Mavrovo and Gostivar. He comes from a family of migrants and felt the bitterness of the migration, often the fate of the Macedonian people in their struggle for survival and bare existence. As a child he worked in his father’s shop in Belgrade. From the hard-earned money his parents tried to enable him to study. He continued to work and go to school at the same time. After he finished elementary school, high school and state trade academy, he studied economy, but the war prevented him from continuing his education. His revolutionary activities until 1944 were mainly in Belgrade and in Serbia. In July 1994 the Party sent him to Macedonia that was preparing for the historic Meeting of ASNOM. As a participant in ASNOM, he experienced the historic moments of creation of the free state of the Macedonian people and the minorities living in Macedonia. There, with renewed revolutionary enthusiasm, he continued his work as Secretary of the Forth District Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia. He was elected as Member of the Central Committee of CPM, and in October he took over the position of Secretary of the First District Committee of the Party in the area of Skopje.

After the victory, he used his vast revolutionary experience in the reconstruction and building of the destroyed country, contributing to the development of the governing of the people and the socialist revolution.

Apart from the many duties which he performed in CPM, he was continually elected as member of the Central Committee of CPY from the Fifth until the Eight Congress, and he was member of the Central Committee of the Presidency of CPYM since 1969. He was also President of the General Council of the Association of the NLM fighters from Macedonia and Vice-President of the General Council of the Association of the NLM fighters of Yugoslavia. Since the beginning, he was one of the founders of the idea for giving the power to the people and continuously worked on its development and strengthening. During 1947-1950 Vidoe Smilevski-Bato was Vice-President of the Government of the PR of Macedonia, in 1950-1951 he was Vice-President of the Presidency of the People’s Assembly, from 1952 to 1954 he was Vice-President of the Government of the PRM, and in the following two years he returned to the Assembly and from 25 July 1963 to 12 May 1967 he was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia.

In the following years he was President of the Federal Council of the Federal Assembly, member of the Council of the Federation, member of the People’s Council of the Federal Assembly, President of the Executive Council of the National Fund for crediting the faster economic development of the underdeveloped areas. He died on 8th September 1979, while he was President of the Presidency of the SR of Macedonia and member of the Presidency of the Central Committee of CPM.

He was awarded as National Hero, Hero of the Socialist Labor, and with Partisan Memorial 1941.

                                                       NIKOLA MINCEV

 

Minchev’s biography is filled with continuous activity and work even before the War, when he took part in the progressive youth and student movement, then as an active participant in the National Liberation Movement and the Revolution since its beginning in 1941, as well as during the period after the liberation in the socialist building of the country.

During his lifetime he had a vast working experience with many achievements and held various important positions in many areas of social life. He is considered one of the most prominent state and political activists in the Republic of Macedonia.

Minchev participated in the NLM in 1941. He was member of the CPY since 1943. One of the organizers of the First Tikvesh Partisan Squad, Commander of the Third Operational  Zone, Secretary of the District and Regional Committee of CPM, member of the Headquarters of the National Liberation Movement and the Partisan Squads of Macedonia. 

He was member and Vice-President of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, Vice-President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, member of the federal Executive Council, President of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, member of the Council of the Federation, the Central Committee of CPY and the Central Committee of CPM, the Polit-Bureau of the Executive Committee.

He completed primary school in Kavadarci and teachers school in Skopje before the Second World War. He was a teacher in several Macedonian villages in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Before the Second World War, from 1940, he was a teacher in the village of Ljubanci near Skopje.

Then he went to the Skopje University, as a part-time student in the Department of Philosophy and Pedagogy. He comes from an old revolutionary family. Minchev was delegate at the Second Session of AVNOJ and at the First Session of ASNOM, and member of the Presidium of ASNOM. Minchev was the first Minister of Education in the first Macedonian Government. He signed the Decision on the First Macedonian Alphabet and the First Macedonian Orthography, and was one of the founders of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje.

For more than a decade, Minchev occupied high ranking positions in the Federation. He was Member of the Federal Executive Council and performed the functions Minister of Finance of Yugoslavia and Director of the Federal Institute on Economical Planning.

With his diverse and productive activities, Nikola Minchev has during his whole life contributed to the development of Republic of Macedonia. He was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia from 23 September 1968 to 6 May 1974. He died on 6 April 1997. He was received with many high acknowledgements for his contribution in the building of the Republic of Macedonia.

                                                 BLAGOJA TALESKI
 

He was born on 17 January 1924 in Prilep. Blagoja Taleski was one of the most prominent party and military leaders in the Republic of Macedonia. He was also a statesman.  He grew up in a family of a craftsman with many children. As a 16 years old boy he became member of the Communists Party of Yugoslavia.

He was a participant in the Ilinden’s Demonstration in 1940, when he was arrested and imprisoned in the Skopje and Veles prisons, as well as in Ada Ciganlija’s prison. He participated in the preparations of the armed uprising. In October 1940 he was arrested and transported to Bulgaria. After his return from prison, Taleski was Secretary of the District Committee of CPM. He participated in the formation of the operational zone of the partisan squads “Dame Gruev” and “Goce Delchev”.

As party and military leader, he participated in the mobilization of the people from Prespa, Prilep, Krushevo and Bitola. He graduated from university and was one of the more active social and political workers and was awarded Partisan Memorial 1941. He held several leading functions in the Republic of Macedonia and in the Yugoslavian Federation.

He was Secretary in the Municipal Committee of Bitola, Chief of the Personnel Department of the Central Committee of CPM, Secretary of the city Committee of CPM, Secretary of the District Committee of CPM - Prilep, Secretary of the Central Board of SSRNM. From 1963 to 1966 he was President of the Control Committee of the Government of the People’s Republic of Macedonia; he was member of ASNOM from 1944 to 4 September 1946. 

He was a Deputy in the First and Second Convening of the Constitutive Assembly of Macedonia from 4 September 1946 to 3 December 1950. He was a Deputy in the Second, Third and Fourth Convening of the Federal Assembly (Federal Council) from 26 March 1950 to 8 June 1963. He was also member of the Council on Economy of the Federal Assembly from 3 June 1963 to April 1965.

In the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, he was a member in the Council on Economy of the Assembly of SRM from 9 April 1967 to 9 April 1969, and member of the Council on Economy of the Assembly of SFRY from April 1967 to April 1974. Taleski was President of the National Council of the Unions of Macedonia from 1963 to 1966. He was also active in the field of economy.

Among other engagements, Taleski was President of the District Cooperative Alliance of Bitola and Secretary General of the Cooperative Company “Jugotutun” in Skopje. He was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia during two mandates, each lasting for 4 years, i.e. from May 1974 to May 1982.

He was Member of the Presidency of CPM and President of the Presidency of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. He died in 2001.

                                                 BOSHKO STANKOVSKI

Born on 26 October 1925, in Brusnik, Bitola. Participated in the NLM and was awarded Partisan Memorial 1941. He was a member of SKOJ from January 1941, member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from November 1943. He graduated from the Institute of Social Studies in Belgrade. Stankovski was Member of the Secretariat of the Federal Council of the Association of the Unions in Macedonia, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia (CPM), President of the Conference of SSRNM, Member of the Presidency of Central Committee of CPM. On the 8th Congress of CPY he was elected as a Member of the Central Committee of CPY.

As a young man, Boshko Stankovski was included in the activities of the Youth Liberation Congress, and later he was elected as President of its Central Committee.

From 1947 to 1948 he attended the Party School of the Central Committee of CPM, and in 1951/1952 he was a teacher and deputy principal of this School. In 1952/1953 and 1953/1954 he was a student on the Institute of Social Studies in Belgrade, where he graduated with highest marks. From 1960 to 1962 he was Head of the Marxist Centre of the Central Committee of CPM.

Because of his dynamic social and political activity and work in the state government bodies, Boshko Stankovski is a laureate of many awards. He was awarded the Order of the Republic, Order of Labor with Red Flag, Order of Brotherhood and Unity with Silver and Golden Wreath and Medal for Courage. He also received several medals of honour from other countries.

At the Constitutive Session of the Assembly of Socialist Republic of Macedonia, third Meeting of the Delegates, held on 28th April 1982, on which the new composition of the Presidency of SRM and of the Executive Council were constituted, Boshko Stankovski was elected President of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia. On that joint meeting of all the Councils of the Assembly, the new members of the Presidency of SRM were elected: Dzemail Vejseli, Vancho Apostolski, Filip Brajkovski, Tome Buklevski, Angel Chemerski, Blagoja Taleski, Blagoj Popov and Fahri Kaja. Dragoljub Stavrev was elected President of the Executive Council of the Assembly of SRM.

Boshko Stankovski was President of the Assembly until 28th of April 1984. He tragically lost his life on 13th March 1987.

                                               KATA LAHTOVA

 

Born on 30 August 1924, in Radovish. From 1944 she took part in the National Liberation Movement (NLM) and joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. In the NLM she was a Political Commissar of her company and Deputy Political Secretary of the battalion.

In her long working experience and activity after the liberation of the country until the end of her life (24 February 1995), she gained rich experience, performing many leading functions and duties in the state bodies, as well as in the social and political organizations. She was Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia (CPM) in Radovish, member of the Bureau for Campaigning and Propaganda of the Central Committee of CPM, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPM in Ohrid, Secretary and President Committee on Statutory Issues of CPM, member of the Central Committee of CPM, member of the Central Board of the National Front of Macedonia, President of the Conference on Social Activity of Women, member of the Secretariat of the Federal Committee on the Social Status of Women in Yugoslavia, delegate to the Assembly of SRM and the Assembly of SFRY, President of the Social and Political Council of the Assembly of SRM and Vice-President of the Assembly.    

In line with the period in which she worked, Kata Lahtova was established as an ardent advocate for development of the social, political and economic life, for establishment of the society on the basis of self-government, the dominant role of the working class, as well as for development and strengthening of the brotherhood and unity, equality and union of the Macedonian people and the minorities.

With her professional and moral qualities and abilities she was committed to the implementation and development of the collective work and decision making, to the personal and collective responsibility, and was adamantly against anti-socialist and anti-self-government attitudes, as well as against all kinds of nationalism, separatism, chauvinism and irredentism. 

She was President of the Assembly from 28th April 1984 until 25th April 1985.

                                              STANKO MLADENOVSKI

 

Before being elected as President of the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, as an important figure and true representative of successful leadership in the filed of economy in the Republic of Macedonia, Mladenovski worked in the factory for the production of pipes and profiles “11 Oktomvri” in Kumanovo, where he was one of the directors. From 1965 to 1970 Stanko Mladenovski worked in a water supply company as Head Engineer. Two years before being appointed Director of production he was an engineer. In 1984 he became Director of the factory “Iskra” in Kumanovo.

Mladenovski was born on 9 November 1937 in Vracovce, Kumanovo. He graduated from the Technical Faculty, Department of Construction. 1974 to 1981 he was member of the Civil Defense Committee in the Council of the Municipality. He was also member in the working bodies and the social and political organizations in the factories where he worked. From 1967 to 1971 he was Member of the Municipality Conference and the Committee of the Communist Party in the Municipality of Kumanovo; from 1974 to 1980 he was Secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia, and after that President of the Municipality Conference of the Communist Party of Macedonia. Mladenovski was also Member of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Macedonia (SSRNM), from 1974 to 1981, and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Macedonia between the 7th and the 8th Congress.

In the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia he was a Delegate in the Development and Finance Committee and in the Committee on Urban, Residential and Communal Issues. He was an active member of the Socialist Alliance of the Working People of Macedonia - the largest social and political organization at that time.

Stanko Mladenovski was elected President of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia at the joint session of the three Houses of the Assembly, which was held on 25th April 1985, with a one-year mandate. His election was unanimous, with a public vote from the delegates. One of the items on the agenda of this constitutive session was the debate on the implementation of the constitutional role of the Councils of Associated Labor, as well as some topical issues concerning the functioning and financing of the local communities. 

Coming from the field of production and associated labor, Stanko Mladenovski was committed to achieving faster economical development, promotion of the legal efforts in this area, and harmonization of the legislative solutions. He was President of the Assembly of the SRM until 28 April 1986.