Tag: balancer
Macedonia 12.10.24 | 19:37

Mickoski: New ethnic representation laws must be in accordance with the Constitution and the Venice Commission

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski addressed the proposal by his Albanian coalition partners from VLEN to have a law on ethnic representation in the public administration. Existing by-laws that regulated this issue, and were widely abused by the DUI party, were struck down by the Constitutional Court...
Macedonia 10.10.24 | 20:31

Taravari expects a law on the ethnic representation in public administration

Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari, who is one of the leading officials of the VLEN coalition, said that the Parliament now must adopt a law on ethnic representation in the public administration, after the Constitutional Court struck down the much criticized regulatory model called “the balancer”. The...
Macedonia 09.10.24 | 19:11

Constitutional Court abolishes much criticized model of ethnic hiring in the public administration

The Constituional Court today voted to abolish the so-called “balancer” – the regulation that mandated preferential hiring of ethnic minorities to the public administration in order to ensure the ethnic proportion or employees matches that of the country as a whole. The model was widely...
Macedonia 04.07.24 | 08:49

Andonovski: DUI first mocked us and now threaten destabilization over the “affirmative action” model of hiring

Digitalization Minister Stefan Andonovski confirmed that the Government intends to reorganize the system of preferential hiring of ethnic minorities, which was greatly abused by the Albanian party DUI to hire partisan loyalists who were often incompetent or would simply not show up for work. There is...
Macedonia 06.05.24 | 21:20

Siljanovska calls for a major change in the model of ethnic hiring in the public sector

VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova condemned the practice of ethnic quotas in public sector hiring and promised to reform the model – the so called “balancer” – which is now rife with abuse. It often prompts citizens to declare an obviously false...

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