The MPs on the monitored sessions in March have mostly elaborated their positions with two or more arguments, whereas the number of elaborations with one argument has been decreased. In 17% of the discussions, the elaborations are estimated as “weak” i.e. without full arguments.
The MPs have yet again remained in their “trenches”. There are only two marked cases of MPs changing their position, but without any explanation as to why they did it. None of the MPs have changed their positions for the sake of a better quality arguments in the debate.
The Opposition has lowered their level of participation in the debate from 29% in February to 16% in March, which is the lowest input from the beginning of the monitoring.
In March, the number of debates by the female MPs marks a decline, unlike in February. In this month they amounted to 48%, compared to the 57% in February.
The MPs have mostly debated on the parliamentary questions, the Proposal of a Law on Water supply, the Proposal of a Law on amending the Law on Habitation and Residence Registration and the Proposal of the Law on issuing vouchers.
Large part of the items on the agenda went with a small, one-sided or no debate at all. Bearing all this in mind, the conclusion is that the public has yet again remained in want of a quality debate for a part of the legal decisions.
These are part of the findings from the Eighth report from monitoring the quality of the debate in the Parliament from 1 to 31 March 2015 
The word cloud of the most frequently used words in the parliamentary debates on the plenary sessions in March is attached.
The reports from monitoring the quality of the debate in the Parliament and those on media reporting from the Assembly in the last months, can be found on the following link https://idscs.org.mk/mk/tekovni-proekti/sobranieto-pod-lupa .