The Constitutional Court announced that as of today it is working with six of the planned nine judges due to the end of the mandate of Judge Vangelina Markudova.

Markudova completed her duties by attending the session held on Wednesday, December 7. As announced by the Court, the last initiative that Markudova worked on and referred to at the session was about the Law on Salaries and Other Compensations of Elected and Appointed Persons and on this matter the Constitutional Court initiated proceedings, i.e. expressed doubts about the constitutionality of Article 22 which allows dismissed officials or those who have resigned on their own to receive a salary (appanage) even after the end of the mandate.

The president of the Constitutional Court, Dobrila Katsarska, thanked Markudova for setting an example of what it means to be a professional judge without a stain and affair in the judicial career.

Vangelina Markudova has been working actively in the judiciary since 1984, starting as a trainee and professional associate in the Gevgelija municipal court, where she was elected as a judge in 1986. In 1996, she was elected as a judge in the Basic Court Skopje I, where from 2007 to 2013 she acted in the department for organized crime and corruption. On November 21, 2013, she was elected as a constitutional judge as a proposal of the Judicial Council, her term begins on December 7, 2013 and ends on December 7, 2022.

As a constitutional judge, during her nine-year term, Markudova worked on 256 cases as a judge-reporter.

In the meantime, it is not known when the Parliamentary Commission for Elections and Appointments will resume work on the proposal that the state prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski be elected as a new constitutional judge and when there will be a new proposal for a judge at a new session, nor when the Judicial Council will come out. with his own proposal for a constitutional judge. It is only clear that by the end of the year Constitutional will not be able to be completed.

A week ago, the Constitutional Court again appealed to the Parliament and the Judicial Council to elect three constitutional judges. In Markudova's place, a proposal for a new constitutional judge should come from the Judicial Council, that is, he should be chosen from among the judges. The election of Joveski remains stuck in the Parliament, and the procedure for the election of another judge has not even started.

The president of the Commission for Elections and Appointments, Marija Georgievska, then for Free Press stated that the continuation of the session will be after the completion of the committee discussion on the budget, but did not answer why, after the election of the two judges, on October 31, the Commission for the election of Joveski never held a meeting.