Today, the 20th session of the Commission for Elections and Appointments continued in the Parliament, where the members discuss the candidacy for constitutional judge of the Republic Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski, proposed by the ruling parties.

The President of the Commission, Marija Georgievska, gave a break after the tense situation after VMRO-DPMNE MP Toni Jarevski asked for a word on procedural matters. Georgievska did not give him a word, on the grounds that he is not a member or deputy member of the Commission and has no procedural right. Then the MPs of VMRO-DPMNE reacted with louder calls to Georgievska that she was curtailing their right to speak, which was denied by her with a request to put some order.

MPs of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE stated in the discussion that "a person who has not reacted to more than 300 corruption and crime scandals in this country cannot have dignity and be even proposed as a candidate for constitutional judge".

MP of VMRO-DPMNE, Blagitsa Lasovska asked to give the floor again to MP Beti Stamenkovska to continue with the address where she stopped when she was interrupted after a 10-hour address to finish necessary needs. Georgievska replied that MP Stamenkovska left her seat when she was speaking and she closed the session because she did not give any break.

- We will fight to prevent him from being a constitutional judge. And we will also fight the previously voted Tanja Vasic Bozadzieva, for whom we do not know if she even knows where the courts are located. Also, let's make you change your mind not to vote for her if the moment comes to vote at all in a plenary session. Don't vote for that person, said Lasovska.

She asked to withdraw all the proposals and, as she said, together with the expert panel, according to the MERIT system, select people who will represent the Constitutional Court. Georgievska said that if she thinks that the proposals should be withdrawn, then they should be withdrawn, but she reminded that the proposals were given by the MPs, both from the opposition and from the parliamentary majority, and it is the right of this Plenum, that is, of this working body, to discuss them regardless of who they are proposed by.

- Your suggestion that we should think about a change, here absolutely and I think that there should be changes, because I think that if there are changes regarding the election of constitutional judges, it will make a great contribution to the democratic process in the country. However, I think that in such a way the citizens will have confidence in the institutions that have the greatest responsibility in this country, said Georgievska.

At the previous sessions, the members of this Commission supported the candidates Tatjana Vasić Bozadzieva, who works in the Ministry of Justice as a state advisor for civil legislation, and the civil judge in the Court of Appeal in Skopje, Fatmir Skender, both proposed by SDSM.

Of the proposed six candidates for constitutional judges of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, none received support. The party proposed Savo Klimovski, university professor, Todor Vitlarov, employee of the Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Shtip, retired judge Branko Sekulovski, Voislav Dimovski, recent public prosecutor from the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office in Ohrid and the judge of the Administrative Court, Vesna Jovanovska and professor Rodna Zivkovska .

The Constitutional Court has been working with an incomplete composition for more than a year. Out of the planned nine members, the mandate of four has expired.