Parliament Speaker Africa Gashi has hosted the former Speakers of the Parliament at the meeting. At the third meeting with Tito Petkovski, Nikola Popovski, Trajko Veljanoski and Jovan Mitreskin, Gashi signed the decision to establish the Council of former Speakers of the Republic of Northern Macedonia.

For the idea, respectively, the purpose of adopting the decision, the Speakers of the Parliament were informed at two previous meetings, held on October 21st 2025 and April 7th 2026.

The aim of establishing the Council, as an informal counseling and consulting body, is to ensure the continuation of the Parliament’s institutional memory; to advance parliamentary practice and democracy, and to offer professional and advisory opinions on issues of importance for the work of the Parliament.

In addition, at the meeting, opinions were exchanged on specific procedural issues in the work of the Parliament, issues related to the digitalisation of the Parliament’s work under the National Strategy for Digitalisation, the idea of the Parliament Library, as well as other current issues of interest in the work of the Parliament and issues of interest to the state, say Gashi’s Cabinet.