Conference Paper

In this paper, the elections are being analyzed from the aspect of regularity of the election process as one of the key criteria in the evaluation of the performance of the reforms in our country. The legitimacy of the government institutions does not result only from the election result, but also from the behavior of the key political forces at all election stages, that is, their willingness to adhere to the procedure required by law. The pressure of the international community for implementing fair and democratic elections, which may directly affect the future integration processes of the country, is certainly a sound reason for concern and accountability of all those directly involved in the holding and the organization of the parliamentary elections in July this year. Surely, the need of additional verification of the democratic nature of the elections emphasized by the international community is a fact that is not be underestimated by any participant in the elections. Here we discuss about critical opinion which is likely to have direct repercussions on the integration process of the Republic of Macedonia to the European Union. This is the reason why high EU officials underline, in various contexts, that the international community will not grant amnesty to the political parties provided they call for our traditional practices of group voting, illiteracy, and it will not tolerate especially those parties which will fail to stand clearly up for overcoming such problems.