Three ethnic Albanian political parties in Macedonia adopted a joint platform Saturday that demands a larger say in the country's affairs in return for their support in forming a coalition government, according to AP. Elections held last month gave the ruling conservative VMRO-DPMNE party 51 seats in the 120-member Parliament and 49 to the opposition Social Democrats. Albanian minority parties won the remaining seats; the largest, the Democratic Union for Integration, a coalition partner of the conservatives over the past decade, won 10. The platform approved by the three parties demands that the Constitution define Macedonia as a bilingual country where both Albanian and Macedonian are recognized as official languages. The parties also are calling for a parliamentary resolution condemning past persecution of the Albanian minority, especially during the period 1912-1956. Their platform also seeks "equal participation" in the country's army, security, intelligence and judicial branches and a say in negotiations with Greece regarding a dispute over the country's name. In addition, the Albanian parties want a special prosecutor to investigate corruption and criminal allegations stemming from a wiretapping scandal that led to early elections to diffuse country's political crisis. Ethnic Albanians comprise a quarter of Macedonia's population of 2.1 million.