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Parliament in Skopje voted for the implementation of the Prespa agreement

Parliament in Skopje voted for the implementation of the Prespa agreement

Parliament in FYROM voted late on Friday to make the necessary constitutional amendments for the implementation of the Prespa agreement.

These amendments will enable the country’s name change to “Republic of North Macedonia”, which is part of the agreement signed between Skopje and Athens in Prespa in June this year.

MPs initially voted electronically, but afterwards VMRO-DPMNE’s whip insisted that MPs vote individually. In both voting stages the governing coalition managed to secure 8 extra votes from the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, taking the total number of votes in favour of the agreement to 80.

Source: AMNA