Legal provisions for citizens' initiatives at national level

Law on Referendum and Civil Initiative (Official Gazette of RM no. 24/1998)

Article 9: Civil initiative is raised for submitting a proposal for changing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, for proposing for passing a law and for passing decisions and other issues that are under the authority of the Assembly.

Civil initiative may be raised for announcing referendum, for expressing the opinion of the citizens upon certain issues that are under the authority of the Assembly.

Article 10: Initiative for collecting signatures of voters for submitting a proposal for changing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, for proposing a law and passing decisions and resolving other issues that are under the authority of the Assembly, may be raised by the citizens, the registered political parties and the associations of citizens.