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Political Representation
According to article 22 of the constitution, the right to vote is "equal, universal and direct." In addition, article 18 of the existing electoral law stipulates that voting districts should be formed in order to ensure that approximately thesame number of voters elects one representative. Ethnic Albanian political parties, however, maintain that the current voting districts are left over from the communist era and drawn in such a way as to dilute the Albanian vote. Etem Aziri, told Human Rights Watch/Helsinki:
The electoral law is from communism and is discriminatory. We have cases where 15,000-17,000 people have voted for one [ethnic] Albanian deputy, while 3,000-4,000 people voted for one [ethnic] Macedonian deputy. This is unprecedented. As you can see, the vote of three Albanians is equal to the vote of one Macedonian.32
Arben Xhaferi compared the voting districts in Bitola and Tetovo. He told Human Rights Watch/Helsinki that Bitola, with an 85 percent ethnic Macedonian population, has 96,000 registered voters, while Tetovo, with an 85 percent ethnic Albanian population, has 136,000 registered voters.33 Still, he claimed that both cities elect nine deputies to the national parliament. He also said that the western city of Debar elects only one deputy, even though there are 16,000 registered voters, 90 percent of whom are ethnic Albanian.34
In June 1994, the National People's Party registered a formal complaint with the Constitutional Court about disproportionate voting districts. Party leaders told Human Rights Watch/Helsinki that, as of August 1995, they had still not received a response.35
In the request, the party presented some of the more disproportionate voting districts. These included:36
District 1 (Berovo) with 12,320 voters
District 20 (Gostivar) with 12, 759 voters
District 73 (Tetovo) with 12,356 voters
District 79 (Tetovo) with 14,144 voters
District 80 (Tetovo) with 14,744 voters
District 3 (Bitola) with 6,663 voters
District 11 (Brod) with 6,817 voters
District 37 (Kriva Palanka) with 4,781 voters
District 55 (Prilep) with 5,169 voters
District 60 (Radovish) with 5,848 voters
Since each district elects one representative, the party argued that the voters in the larger districts, primarily ethnic Albanians, had a weaker vote than the voters in smaller districts.
According to a detailed report conducted before the 1994 parliamentary elections by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Macedonia's electoral commission has recognized that some electoral districts represent approximately 6,000 voters while others represent as many as 17,000. The IFES report concluded:
Not only are significant numbers of voters over- and underrepresented under the current plan, candidates for election need significantly greater or lesser numbers of votes to be elected simply on the basis of the district in which they run. Although the IFES team was not in a position to investigate the legitimacy of the allegations, concern was expressed on numerous occasions that the deviations negatively impact certainminority groups and dilute their opportunities for equal representation in the Assembly.37
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki was also not able to ascertain whether or not the disproportionality of voting districts negatively affects ethnic Albanians. However, there is clearly a need to revise the electoral law to assure that all voting districts are roughly of equal size. This is necessary in order to comply with Macedonian law and to guarantee individuals the fundamental right of one person-one vote. When considering the division of electoral districts, the government should take into account the special concerns of the minority populations.
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