In January, the MPs had the least amount of elaborated positions with two or more arguments, while they most often had one argument expressed in their speeches.
During this period they yet again could not prove the rightfulness of each other’s arguments, thus remaining in their “trenches”. None of the MPs in January changed their views for the sake of a better quality arguments in the discussion or for any other reasons.
On the monitored parliamentary sessions, the MPs showed more respect towards other MPs and their arguments, compared to the previous months.
This month the MPs were most active during the parliamentary questions and the debates on the amendments to the Law on High Education, the Law on Spatial and Urban Planning and the Law on Administrative Officials.
The Opposition composed of 10 MPs yet again increased its share in the discussions, reaching the highest level of 29%.
To conclude, the public once again remained deprived of a quality debate for part of the legal decisions, whereby missing the opportunity of testing the validity of the expressed arguments through discussion.
These are part of the Sixth Monitoring Report on the quality of debate in the Parliament 
conducted by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS) within the project “Parliament Watch, Strengthening the Political Debate and the Deliberative Discourse”, financed by the European Union. The entire report for January 2015 is further attached, while the reports from the previous months are available on the following link: http://www.idscs.org.mk/mk/tekovni-proekti/sobranieto-pod-lupa.
conducted by the Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS) within the project “Parliament Watch, Strengthening the Political Debate and the Deliberative Discourse”, financed by the European Union. The entire report for January 2015 is further attached, while the reports from the previous months are available on the following link: http://www.idscs.org.mk/mk/tekovni-proekti/sobranieto-pod-lupa.