The Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” (IDSCS) in the period 5 May- 6 June 2015, within the project “Parliament Watch, Strengthening the Political Debate and the Deliberative Discourse”, conducted a public opinion survey on the citizens’ perception, regarding the work of the Parliament.
The research is conducted through face-to-face field survey on 1000 respondents, whereby the sex, age, ethnicity, education and place specifics have been taken into consideration.
The survey contains 32 questions.
Some of the key-findings in the survey regarding the work of the Parliament in the last 12 months are:
• 76% of the respondents completely or partially agree that the media report selectively on the work of the Parliament.
• Almost half of the citizens – 49%, think that the control of the Parliament over the Government is small or absent. For 25% of the citizens, the control is suitable, while for 10% it is big.
• Only 7% think that the parliamentary questions enable control over the executive power. 27% of the citizens think that the parliamentary questions have no influence at all.
• 61% of the respondents think that the laws are being amended often or too often. Such opinion is held by 81% of the farmers, 67% of the employed in the public sector and 57% of the employed in the private sector.
• For 57% of the citizens, the notion of efficiency of the Parliament means adopting as better quality laws as possible. For 7% of the citizens, it means the adoption of as many laws and legal changes as possible.
• For 49% of the citizens, the Parliament is not open for the public, while 41% consider it to be open.
• 17% of the citizens think that the Parliament always or often consults the public before adopting the laws, while 41% think that the consultations are made rarely or never.
• 56% of the respondents said that the MP from their constituency is not available for meetings with the citizens.
• Only 28% of the citizens think that the MPs in the Parliament represent the interests of the citizens and of the constituencies. 34% think that the MPs represent their own personal interests, while 32% that they represent the party interests.
• Larger part of the citizens (39%) think that most of the MPs are not prepared for the items on the agenda, while 13% that they are not prepared at all. 35% of the respondents, think that most of the MPs are prepared, whereas only 6% that they are completely prepared.
• 45% of the respondents think that the Parliament has not increased its control over the law enforcement, while 49% are skeptical of this happening, having in mind the current parliamentary composition.
• For 49% of the citizens, the MPs rarely elaborate their positions and views with arguments. 26% think that this is an often practice of the MPs.
The entire results from the public opinion survey on the work of the Parliament, can be found on the following link 
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.The reports from monitoring the debate in the Parliament and the media reporting from the previous months, within the project Parliament Watch, are available on the following link https://idscs.org.mk/mk/tekovni-proekti/sobranieto-pod-lupa.