Hundreds of ethnic Albanian law students rallied on Skopje's Stone Bridge (a landmark crossing the Vardar River in the North Macedonian capital) in early April, demanding the right to sit the bar exam in Albanian rather than Macedonian. Protesters argue the right is already enshrined in the country's constitution and language legislation, but the centre-right government of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has called for an expert panel to review the matter first, a delay students condemn as unnecessary. With Albanians making up at least a quarter of North Macedonia's roughly two million people, organisers say the dispute reflects a wider failure to translate legal language protections into everyday practice, and have vowed to return to the bridge on 18 May.