The Roma people following the current social
streams and their needs, as well as the transition from
one-party system to multi-party system, has organized
in several political parties. Such political organizing
enables, since the independence of Macedonia up to
nowadays, that Roma people are recognized with the
Constitution of Republic of Macedonia as equal community,
they have own deputy in the Macedonian parliament,
while with the structuring of the Suto Orizari
municipality the Roma people got their first Roma
major.
The democracy development and the need for
articulation of several issues regarding the Roma community,
apart of the political organizing, resulted with
establishing plenty Roma NGOs as well as few press
and electronic media. Today in the city of Skopje successfully
are functioning two Roma TV stations, while
within the state TV station, beside the programs in the
other minority languages, a program in Romani language
is broadcasted; further there are Roma radio stations
in the city of Skopje, and in the towns of Prilep and
Stip, and plenty publications, magazines and newspapers
in Roma language are published.
All these organizations and institutions, within
their own possibilities and authorizations give own contribution
for improving the situation of the Roma community
in Macedonia. However, the process for transcending
the problems the Roma people in Macedonia is
faced with, as well as the process for their complete
integration in the modern society are long-term processes
and are conditioned by transcending the problems in
the spheres of education, health, social, infrastructure,
the problem with discrimination on ethnical grounds etc.
These problems are dragged through for a long time and
their resolving is prolonged or if anything is done, it is
done unsystematically and partially, without distinctive
strategy for permanent and general improvement of the
situation.