The Statistical Office is also awaiting a final agreement to postpone the census. From there they say that they do not want to comment on the agreement of the two party leaders of SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski to postpone the census until the whole process in Parliament is completed.
The Director of Statistics, Apostol Simovski says that in the interest of the census process of Macedonian citizens, he will not give statements to the media.
- We should see the proposal in action, says Simovski.
According to the Minister of Justice Bojan Maricic, the amendments to the Draft Law on Census have already been discussed at a meeting with the Director Apostol Simovski and his Deputy Ilmi Selami.
- The changes come down to two questions, that is the date of the census which is in one provision, instead of April 1 to 21 it will be written from September 5 to 30 and in the part that the diaspora can continue to be counted from March 1 when it started, by September 30th, when the field part of the census should be completed, Maricic said.
The procedure is as follows - after the Government adopts it at a session, the Census Draft-Law will be submitted to the Parliament.
- Since these are not substantial changes, I expect the Assembly to adopt it quickly. Due to the urgency of the moment before the start of the census, the new draft law on the census, just like the previous one, will have a European flag and in a shortened procedure. This way we will be able to achieve what was agreed at the meeting yesterday. In that procedure, it is not possible to block by submitting thousands of amendments, Maricic said.
