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Article: MACEDONIA: MACEDONIA HAS A NEW LAW ON LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- February 5, 2002
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After months of intensive discussions, the Macedonian parliament approved a new law on local self-government on 24 January. The breakthrough came after the leaders of the four main political parties agreed -- at the urging of President Boris Trajkovski -- to pass the law in parliament. The major points at issue included the possibility that neighboring municipalities could form a common administration under the provisions of the draft law. Ethnic Macedonians feared that this could ultimately lead to a federalization and partition of the country. The provision in question has now been replaced by one saying that municipalities are allowed to form joint administrations only ...