Resignations Rock Macedonia's Junior Ruling Party

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  • VMRO
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 1462

    Resignations Rock Macedonia's Junior Ruling Party

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    Three prominent members of the junior party in Macedonia's ruling coalition, including Deputy Defence Minister Arben Labenishta, have resigned amid the country's mass wiretapping crisis.

    Macedonia's Deputy Defence Minister Arben Labenishta, who resigned at the weekend | Photo by: gov.mk

    Labenishta tendered his resignation at the weekend from the junior ruling party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, together with the party’s longstanding organisational secretary Hazbi Lika and Shefik Duraki, the head of the DUI's branch in the village of Arcinovo near Skopje.

    Labenishta is the first person to quit the cabinet since a political crisis erupted in the country in February, sparked by the scandal over mass illegal surveillance which was revealed by the opposition.

    In his written resignation, Labenishta accused his party leadership of spreading demagogy and being servile towards the main ruling VMRO DPMNE party of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who has been in power for nine years.

    He demanded that someone be held responsible for the mass wiretapping and said he was unhappy about the way his party had reacted at a time when the country was struck by a political crisis.

    "Uncivilised people, an uneducated democracy and the lack of any ethical and moral capacity creates chaos, exploitation and discouragement, [which creates a] residue that will cover all our efforts for [improvement] of our national and social life," Labenishta wrote in the letter.

    The opposition Social Democrats started releasing the tapes of government conversations in February. They claim that Gruevski orchestrated the illegal surveillance of some 20,000 people and that the material comes from sources in the Macedonian secret services.

    Gruevski has thus far insisted that the tapes were created by unnamed "foreign secret services" in collaboration with the opposition in order to destabilise the country.

    Responding to the resignations, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said that his party was not "a circus for acrobatic politics, but a serious party that builds long-term policies".

    Some observers say that the resignations were a consequence of a long-standing internal power struggle between DUI members. But after the wiretapping scandal erupted, the party has been come under increased pressure to leave Gruevski’s government.

    Despite Ahmeti's insistence that they are staying in the ruling coalition for now, at a recent DUI congress, a guest speaker, the former EU representative in Macedonia, Erwan Fouere, notably got a round of applause from DUI delegates when he warned the party that every day it spent in the government added to the risk of it being seen as Gruevski’s accomplice.
    Verata vo Mislite, VMRO vo dushata, Makedonia vo Srceto.

    Vnatreshna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija.
  • sydney
    Member
    • Sep 2008
    • 390

    #2
    'Let's quit and head for the hills...'

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    • Gocka
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2012
      • 2306

      #3
      Originally posted by sydney View Post
      'Let's quit and head for the hills...'
      Exactly, odds on they become the new leaders of the terrorists. This has all been building up for a while now and its all about to blow.

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      • makedonche
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2008
        • 3242

        #4
        I wouldn't let them quit, make them stay and face the music!
        On Delchev's sarcophagus you can read the following inscription: "We swear the future generations to bury these sacred bones in the capital of Independent Macedonia. August 1923 Illinden"

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