a few seconds agoNATO, EU issue required to join referendum
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)Experts estimate that integrations into NATO and the EU should be part of the referendum question. According to the Constitutional Judge Osman Cadiu, the purpose of the agreement with Greece is unblocking the Euro-Atlantic process, which according to him logically and legally imposes the integration of the process on the content of the question. Kadriu adds that the question would be illegal [...]
Experts estimate that integrations into NATO and the EU should be part of the referendum question.
According to the Constitutional Judge Osman Cadiu, the purpose of the agreement with Greece is unblocking the Euro-Atlantic process, which according to him logically and legally imposes the integration of the process on the content of the question.
Kadriu adds that the question would be illegal if more than two elements were involved.
The debate on the referendum should reflect the importance of the question for which citizens should be determined by their free vote. The related agreement should not only be analysed as a judicial and political integrity and as a secular political document. The agreement with Greece is due, causeless and inseparable with Macedonia's integration processes and its membership in NATO and the EU. From this clearly arises the conditioning of the agreement mentioned as a necessary need for integration. So I agree that besides the agreement, integration processes should be components and elements in the referendum question. Integration processes are not voted, but they are the reasoning and the essential cause of the agreement with Greece and this agreement is to be a question for referendum”, Osman Kadriu said.
As for the character of the referendum, Kadriu estimates it must be mandatory.
“Taking into account the nature of the question, weight and importance, as well as instructions and objections from the opposition, would be better off being the binding referendum, since the referendum itself as an important political act gains its credibility” he added.
Power has proposed that the question be of kind: Are you for membership in NATO and the EU accepting the name agreement with Greece? The opposition, on the other hand, has asked questions on which the name change is included, the agreement signed in Prespa, including the names of ministers Dimitrov and Kocias, as well as naming the sides as the opposition calls them negative to the agreement. These differences make leaders at the last meeting uncompetitive.
