The Safe City project is expected to be approved in parliament next week, but the cabinet of the Speaker of Parliament Afrim Gashi has not yet scheduled a session on this issue. While the coordinators of the parliamentary groups have clarified some points with the DUI deputies, the Social Democrats will demand a debate in parliament on the issue of fines and the fate of the data in the system.
SDSM leader Venko Filipçe said that we support the law in the part that regulates part of the traffic and reduces the risk of accidents, but these two issues need to be discussed.
"First, in the current context regarding the economic position of citizens, we will have to talk about the height of the sentences and secondly, who controls the large amount of data collected by the Safe City system. We are talking about a government that has a history of misuse of security services, surveillance, wiretapping of a large part of citizens. We are not comfortable with this part simply passing without discussion. We suspect that this data may be misused for narrow party interests. Therefore, these two issues will be debated in the parliament," declared the leader of the SDSM, Venko Filipçe.
The fines that are foreseen after recording violations on security cameras are from 15 to 300 euros. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski is optimistic that the law on minor offenses will be passed in parliament and its implementation will begin soon.
Other parties, the VALEN coalition, the E Di movement, and the Left, have also expressed their support for cooperation regarding the adoption of the law.
