Qué funciona en Macedonia del Norte

North Macedonia's 40% Candidate Quota shows that a strict legal gender quota alone has not guaranteed proportional representation: women's parliamentary seat share dropped from 42.5% (2024) to 39.2% in 2025, below the legal threshold, while at the municipal level women made up 45% of candidates but only 36.2% of elected councillors. Use Facts demonstrates that structured media-literacy training can improve disinformation-identification accuracy, with over 500 trained pensioners scoring 6–12% higher on identification tests than untrained peers, and female pensioners who received gender-focused training showing roughly double the gains in verification skills. ADA illustrates a wider governance challenge: the government invested €150,000 in a trilingual AI investment assistant that launched in April 2023 but became non-functional within two years due to a lapsed contract, mirroring a State Audit finding that none of 48 state-funded AI projects between 2018–2023 (totalling €6.11 million) reached production.