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  • Niko777
    Senior Member
    • Oct 2010
    • 1895

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    • Risto the Great
      Senior Member
      • Sep 2008
      • 15658

      I understand Serbia's position. But the rest?
      Proof that national identity is less important than other things I guess.
      Risto the Great
      MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
      "Holding my breath for the revolution."

      Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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      • Odi Zvezdo
        Junior Member
        • Apr 2016
        • 63

        Can I ask those on this forum that were old enough and who lived in Macedonia during the days of Yugoslavia, what was it like to be a Macedonian in the Former Yugoslavia?

        Being Macedonian from Aegean Macedonia, and young during the breakup of Yugoslavia, there was limited exposure...

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        • Stojacanec
          Member
          • Dec 2009
          • 809

          Those 10 people from Kosovo must have been Serbs.

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          • DraganOfStip
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2011
            • 1253

            Assassination attempt on Todorov

            The grandfather of a little girl that died while waiting for the Health Fund to approve means for her treatment abroad, tried to kill former health minister from DPMNE, Nikola Todorov.
            Todorov was supposed to handover his office to the new health minister today and the incident took place at the stairway in front of the ministry building.
            When Todorov arrived and started greeting the journalists at the scene, the man came out and fired 2 shots at him. Both bullets missed the target and Todorov is unharmed.
            The security tackled the man immediately and he's now in custody.
            Tamara's death instigated protests for Todorov's resignation and is considered to be the initial spark that lead to the anti-government protests last year.

            Last edited by DraganOfStip; 06-01-2017, 07:26 AM.
            ”A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
            ― George Orwell

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            • Tomche Makedonche
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2011
              • 1123

              Is Macedonia's new prime minister finally ready to end the "name blame" game with Greece? NATO maintains there will be no membership invitation issued to the Balkan country until a compromise is found.


              New Macedonian government boldly demands Brussels' attention

              Is Macedonia's new prime minister finally ready to end the "name blame" game with Greece? NATO maintains there will be no membership invitation issued to the Balkan country until a compromise is found.

              Macedonia, required to formally be called the "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" or "FYROM," has been working on its Membership Action Plan - the pathway to becoming a NATO ally - since 1999, when Albania also received the nod. Balkan neighbors Croatia and Montenegro earned that status in 2002 and 2009, respectively.

              Of them, only Macedonia remains outside the alliance today, stalled for almost a decade by an impasse with Athens over the name "Macedonia," shared by the former Balkan state and a region of Greece. Seeing Montenegro's flag raised outside NATO headquarters last week, with full membership accomplished in just one decade, reminded Macedonians all too clearly their dreams of Western acceptance, not to mention the NATO security embrace, remain unfulfilled.

              "We were first in line and now it seems we are the last ones," says one Macedonian diplomat, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. "We are feeling very depressed about that."

              From bloodied face to head of government

              But new Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in office only since the beginning of June, doesn't seem depressed - he seems driven. Zaev took over his country's government after months of instability in which he'd even been physically assaulted by his predecessor's supporters, who stormed the national parliament in April. Zaev has made no secret of the fact that bringing Macedonia into NATO and the European Union are his top priorities and that he's willing to be creative in ending the name dispute with Greece.

              "I think there's new momentum," EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said alongside Zaev after their meeting. "I think we can use this situation and make progress."

              Speaking later at NATO headquarters with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Zaev explained his plans. While he called the blockade "not fair" in light of the many contributions Skopje has made to NATO operations, the prime minister said he's dedicated to improving relations with Greece, where he's sending his foreign minister on Wednesday, adopting an interim name that will win Athens' agreement to move forward.

              Diplomatic sources and media reports say that is likely to be "Upper Macedonia" or the "Upper Republic of Macedonia."
              "Standing in one place just causes crisis," Zaev said. "Even with the temporary reference we can receive an invitation from NATO ... and during the ratification of all the 29 member states of NATO we can still have two years" to find a permanent solution that will win Greece's backing for full ratification.

              Zaev is ready to bond with Brussels

              Russia's sphere of influence shrinks

              While Stoltenberg underscored the need for Zaev's government to implement reforms, Zaev also alluded several times to reasons why allies should consider his country's membership in their own interest, pointing out that it's "important for the Western Balkans to be secure and stable." Like in fellow Balkan NATO aspirant, now member, Montenegro, the Kremlin has sought to line up a strong hand in Macedonia. The Macedonian diplomat confirmed that the pressure from Moscow is "not visible but it's everywhere - you can feel it."

              The Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a investigative cooperative, last week published a dossier based on information from Macedonia's own intelligence services. "About nine years ago they had noticed that the Russian embassy in the country had been upping their intelligence activities," reporter Aubrey Belford told DW, using soft-power techniques such as paying media to run pro-Kremlin stories and trying to influence local politicians not to support further western integration.

              "Russia's goal in the region is to just pry it out of the Western orbit," Belford explained, "keeping the country out of play and limiting NATO's expansion." One of the documents in the report cites the Russian ambassador in Skopje describing the aim to "create a strip of militarily neutral countries" in the Balkans including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia.

              A NATO source confirmed to DW that the alliance has its own evidence of Russian attempts to sideline Macedonian progress.
              Gordana Delic, director of the German Marshall Fund's "Balkan Trust for Democracy" project, says Macedonia's Western friends bear some responsibility for the country's democratic deficits. "The name dispute is something that was heavily neglected by all sides," she told DW. "The political turmoil is a consequence of the global challenges but also of that neglect."

              Skopje's invitation stamped soon?

              Delic says it's not too late to fix that, if both NATO and the EU are prepared to provide "serious, experienced and dedicated assistance." While the Zaev government appears to be clean of the corruption and Russian-influence problems of the previous regime, Delic warns that the flip-side of this is that it also has few ties to its own police, military and security services. "The Balkans are an excellent platform for both the EU and NATO to exercise their unity in a smart and intelligent way," Delic believes. "Now it is time to finish the unfinished business. Integration of the Western Balkans into the trans-Atlantic community is a win-win situation."

              Both sides have their views of what "unfinished business" means. NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg urged Zaev to focus on strengthening Macedonia's own rule of law as the best way to resist what he euphemistically termed "foreign interference." Zaev pledged he'd do that, but also told Stoltenberg he expects his country to be the "next good news coming from NATO," with the Macedonian flag soon being hoisted high at headquarters as the 30th ally.
              “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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              • Skolovranec
                Junior Member
                • Mar 2017
                • 52

                Russians seem to be behind everything these days. Something goes wrong, blame the Russians. You don't like the weather? Russians! Lost your bet? Damn Russians bro.
                Anti-EU Pro-Guns National-Libertarian Trekkie Minarchist
                Anti-NATO Pro-United MK Agnostic Secularist Magick Occultist
                Anti-UN Pro-Military Meritocratic Integrationist Altruistic Socio-Darwinist
                Anti-Globalist Pro-Choice Intellectual Pirate Spiritual Vagabond

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                • Tomche Makedonche
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 1123

                  Settlement of the bilateral 'name' dispute is crucial if Greece is to support Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations, Athens said on Wednesday, at an introductory meeting between the two Foreign Ministers.


                  Macedonia FM Receives Warm Welcome in Athens

                  Settlement of the bilateral 'name' dispute is crucial if Greece is to support Macedonia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations, Athens said on Wednesday, at an introductory meeting between the two Foreign Ministers.

                  Macedonia's new Foreign Minister, Nikola Dimitrov, has paid a first to Athens, where he met his counterpart, Nikos Kotzias, in a warm atmosphere that some hope may pave the way to a solution of the long-standing dispute over Macedonia's name.

                  Greece objects to the name "Macedonia", claiming it implies a territorial aspiration to the Greek province of the same name.

                  "I am seeking support from the Greek government and the people of Greece," Dimitrov told a joint press conference in Athens, saying that his country would do its utmost to strengthen trust and cooperation with neighbouring Greece.

                  Thanking his host, Kotzias, for the "warm welcome", Dimitrov said the priorities of the new Macedonian government led by Zoran Zaev were strengthening institutions and the rule of law and reviving the stalled Euro-Atlantic integration process.

                  Macedonia obtained a recommendation to start EU accession talks back in 2005 and was almost invited to join NATO back in 2008. However, the unresolved name dispute with Greece has stalled progress since then.

                  Over the past two years, since Macedonia became mired in political crisis, the EU additionally conditioned the accession recommendation with demands for fresh democratic elections and the fulfillment of urgent reform priorities.

                  The trip to Athens was Dimitrov's first bilateral visit since he came to office two weeks ago.

                  Thanking Dimitrov for choosing Athens for his first official diplomatic stop-over, Kotzias said Athens was pleased its neighbour had finally ended its political crisis with the formation of a new Social Democrat-led government.

                  "Greece supports FYROM's sovereignty and territorial integrity and stands against third party intervention in domestic affairs," Kotzias said, using the acronym by which Macedonia joined the UN. [It stands for the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.]

                  He added that Greece was prepared to assist the country's EU and NATO aspirations once the name dispute was settled.

                  "I shall spare no effort for a just compromise on the name issue ... and to further develop our relations," the Greek minister said.

                  Dimitrov is also meeting Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, as well as a representative of the main Greek opposition New Democracy party, Giorgos Koumoutsakos, who heads that party's foreign policy department.

                  It is hoped that the change in power in Macedonia will open the way for better communications between the two countries after years of sour diplomatic notes coming from both sides.

                  During Monday's visit to Brussels, Macedonia's new Prime Minister Zaev promised to revitalise his country’s stalled Euro-Atlantic integration process and expressed hope of a rapid invitation to join NATO.

                  Some observers believe Macedonia's new government could make use of the increased US and EU interest in the Western Balkans, due to Russia's growing impact in the region, to get an invitation to join NATO sooner rather than later.
                  “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                  • Risto the Great
                    Senior Member
                    • Sep 2008
                    • 15658

                    He added that Greece was prepared to assist the country's EU and NATO aspirations once the name dispute was settled.
                    Imagine a bank's most delinquent customer recommending a friend to the same bank.
                    Greece supporting "FYROM" for the EU is that.
                    Risto the Great
                    MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
                    "Holding my breath for the revolution."

                    Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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                    • Risto the Great
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 15658

                      "Greece supports FYROM's sovereignty and territorial integrity and stands against third party intervention in domestic affairs," Kotzias said, using the acronym by which Macedonia joined the UN.
                      You don't get any more domestic than what you choose to call yourself.
                      Risto the Great
                      MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
                      "Holding my breath for the revolution."

                      Hey, I wrote a bestseller. Check it out: www.ren-shen.com

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                      • Tomche Makedonche
                        Senior Member
                        • Oct 2011
                        • 1123



                        Kotzias shuts down Dimitrov: Change your name, then NATO

                        We are pleased to see our neighbor finding the path to stability, said Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias after Wednesday’s meeting with Macedonian counterpart Nikola Dimitrov in Athens, saluting “the friendly commitment expressed at all levels, starting from Prime Minister Zaev”.

                        “I told Dimitrov at the meeting and now to the public – Greece supports the territorial integrity of our southern neighbor, its stability, sovereignty, non-interference of third parties in its internal affairs and I would urge them to stay away from our bilateral relations. We were against any sanctions imposed on our neighboring country, we have a clear strategy and we do not back down”, said Kotzias.

                        He voiced conviction that the development of bilateral relations and mutual trust will facilitate talks over open issues, with both sides prepared to talks on these issues once time has matured.

                        “We believe that promoting the culture of consensus and understanding on the Balkans in general will facilitate our relations with all countries and contribute to the development of a more democratic, more European politically-cultured states”, added FM Kotzias.

                        He stressed that he wants to see Macedonia join diverse international organizations and Greece is open for support to these efforts, but once the name issue is solved.

                        “This is the condition and I believe we must and can work on reaching a good compromise that benefits both sides. Let’s contribute and help our citizens and societies to understand that we can achieve more if we go beyond the historical obstacles and do not insist on conflicts that take us nowhere”, said Kotzias.

                        He said bilateral relations must move forward and friendship between the two nations should be strengthened.

                        “Greece wants to see the entire Western Balkan region become part of the Euro-Atlantic system. The question is how much these countries want this. They cannot expect us to want this more than they do. They have to want it more than us”, added Kotzias.

                        He recalled that in February 2015 had told the European partners that fyRoM should not be treated in a way that teaches it against reaching compromises, because this would reflect on its internal developments and international relations.

                        “And then came the crisis in the country, which is not owed to the Bucharest decision, but from the fact that the previous government did not want to compromise, turning the name issue from a geographic problem into an identity problem. Regarding fyRoM, we want the country to join NATO and EU and can achieve this by finding a name compromise, sign a new agreement in the UN and afterwards go to Brussels with this agreement”, highlighted Kotzias.

                        According to Greece’s official position, the move by Athens to veto Macedonia’s NATO accession in 2008 cannot be considered an act of hostility.

                        “What followed afterwards is another thing, but the act itself cannot be considered one of hostility. Each side fights to defend its own position within the foreign policy-making in the way they know best. I do not think that positions of my friends on the north are hostile and please do not consider our activities as being hostile. Greece wants to help our neighbor and despite the crisis you have been through, you are one of the strongest countries on the Balkans. According to me, if you are the strongest, this means you have more obligations, not more rights. I hope we will find a way, a joint path leading to a mutually acceptable compromise, one that enables further nurturing of bilateral relations”, underlined the Greek FM.

                        He added that today’s discussions would not solve the name issue, but aim to build a positive climate.

                        “We have the positive framework for the issue’s settlement and I once again would like to thank Nikola (Dimitrov) for this positive climate. It is not sufficient only to have good intentions, but efforts are required for a solution”, said Kotzias.

                        Pertaining to the confidence-building measures, he emphasized their significance and said talks tackled oil pipeline, gas pipeline, railway route, exchange between diplomatic academies, cooperation among universities, trade, including a business forum to be held in Athens in the second half of 2017.

                        “Good intentions do not replace negotiations, but make talks more pleasant. We are pleased for the progress that our northern neighbor has made in a very short period and agreed with Dimitrov that parties should undertake all steps possible towards drafting the best measures for further development of our cooperation”, concluded Kotzias.

                        FM Dimitrov says Athens visit aims at securing support from Greece

                        My main message today is – I am here to seek support, and it matters less who will be the winner, who will be more skillful in presenting arguments. My message is – I am seeking support from the Greek government and the public in Greece, what we need now is an encouragement to walk tall on the path we want to pursue, Macedonia’s Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov stated after a meeting with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias in Athens.

                        “We have no hidden agendas and we want to be friends with your country,” Dimitrov told a news conference.

                        He thanked Minister Kotzias for inviting him and for his ‘warm welcome.’

                        “We’ve held open and cordial talks, first meeting tet-a-tet and then we were joined by our delegations. I’ve informed the Minister about the priorities of the new government. We’ve endured some difficult years and we are strongly determined – regardless of whether we will have doors towards a European future opened for us or not – to work hard for strong institutions and rule of law, which will be beyond the will of politicians, and not vice versa,” stated Dimitrov.

                        As regards the country’s foreign policy, he said, our priorities will be focused on reviving the EU and NATO integration process and also on making Macedonia a better neighbor and a closer friend of all the countries in the immediate neighborhood and beyond, across the region.

                        “I believe diplomats are tasked with solving issues, opening doors, building bridges. Thus I have made my first official visit to Greece,” the FM noted.

                        He said he strived to build ‘a fresh, positive image’ in the region through concrete steps.

                        “I will continue to present arguments, in theory and in practice, that it is in the interest of our bigger and more influential neighbor the country to establish an European-like democracy, which is going to join NATO and launch EU membership talks. And I’m confident that you have many advantages and that unlocking the path could contribute to, and help close the main issue,” stated Dimitrov.

                        As regards the confidence-building measures, the Macedonian FM called them ‘interesting and useful’ adding that the two ministers in the meeting had add a few elements.

                        “I’m confident that step by step we will create conditions, we’ve even discussed the opening of a border crossing. I hope one day in the future, there wouldn’t even be a border, literally speaking, if we were to join the EU,” Minister Dimitrov concluded.

                        Moreover, FM Kotzias said Greece was open to support the efforts of Macedonia to join international organizations on the condition the countries settled the name issue.
                        “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                        • Phoenix
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2008
                          • 4671

                          Originally posted by Risto the Great View Post
                          You don't get any more domestic than what you choose to call yourself.
                          Not sure what ZZ thinks he can do that hasn't been tried or suggested in the past two decades already...our petulant little bouzouki playing friends dance to their own tune.

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                          • Stojacanec
                            Member
                            • Dec 2009
                            • 809

                            The yogurt throwing southern neighbours should be told, you can't negotiate what you don't own.

                            A bit like government debt and austerity measures...all concepts they don't understand.

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                            • Tomche Makedonche
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2011
                              • 1123

                              The last week of June will see a mass of trials and meetings in Macedonia - which will help determine the immediate course of the crisis-struck country's recovery.


                              Macedonia in Line for Busy Political Week

                              The last week of June will see a mass of trials and meetings in Macedonia - which will help determine the immediate course of the crisis-struck country's recovery

                              Talks with EU on key reforms, trials of politicians and the likely raising of new charges against former officials will make for a packed agenda in Macedonia this week.

                              First up on Monday is a planned visit by the EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, who will attend a session of the new Social Democrat-led government - and give it some guidelines on the timetable by which the EU wants to see key reforms in place.

                              The focus on reforms will remain present when Macedonian leaders on Tuesday welcome the group of experts led by Reinhard Priebe who drafted the urgent reform priorities on behalf of the EU in 2015 - but which the previous government led by the VMRO DPMNE party never fulfilled.

                              Priebe arrives to review the situation and help determine short-term reform guidelines in areas such as the rule of law and the judiciary, media freedom and the fight against corruption.

                              Meeting these priorities will help Macedonia regain an EU recommendation to start accession talks - withdrawn under the last government.

                              Macedonia's new government, led by Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev, has pledged to turn a fresh page and revive the country's stalled Euro-Atlantic membership bids.

                              This means improving relations with neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria while resuming the thorough internal reforms that had previously been de-railed.

                              Top politicians expected in court:

                              On Tuesday, Prime Minister Zaev is summoned to appear before a court for allegedly soliciting about 200,000 euros in a bribe from a firm in Strumica, where he served as mayor.

                              The charges, which Zaev calls politically motivated, were filed in March 2015, two months after he and his Social Democratic Party, SDSM, then in opposition, revealed a massive wiretapping scandal.

                              The revelations shook the previous VMRO DPMNE-led government and soon plunged the country into political crisis.

                              One day later, on Wednesday, Zaev's bitter political rival, former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, leader of VMRO DPMNE, is also due in court for the resumption of a trial where he is accused of ordering an attack on an opposition mayor and his municipal headquarters in 2013.

                              This case, in which Gruevski has pleaded not guilty, was launched by the Special Prosecution, SJO - the body formed to investigate the allegations of high-profile wrongdoing arising from nthe wiretapped conversations.

                              Key ruling on murder case that raised tensions:

                              On Thursday, the Supreme Court has set a session at which it should rule on the plea submitted on behalf of six ethnic Albanian Muslims jailed for life in 2014 for killing five ethnic Macedonians in 2012 in Skopje - a case that sharply raised ethnic tensions.

                              Lawyers for Alil Demiri, Afrim Ismailovic, Agim Ismailovic, Fejzi Aziri, Haki Aziri and Sami Ljuta seek a retrial, insisting their clients were not guilty - and were set up.

                              News of the murders inflamed tension in the ethnically divided country and triggered violent rivals protests by groups of ethnic Macedonians and Albanians.

                              Special Prosecution announces more charges:

                              As the deadline for the SJO to raise charges expires this Friday, Chief Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva last week vowed to wrap up some 20 ongoing investigations against high-ranking officials by the end of the week.

                              In some cases, the SJO will press charges. In others, some investigations against officials will be terminated, she said. "The place where our arguments and that of the defence should be confronted is in court," Janeva said last Friday.

                              In most of the cases, the SJO is investigating alleged misdeeds by former VMRO DPMNE officials - whose party held power in Maceodnia for the past 11 years.

                              Although the party initially agreed to the formation of the SJO, it has since claimed that it has worked selectively in order to discredit it.

                              Zaev's SDSM has meanwhile said that during the course of this week, it file a motion in parliament seeking an extension of the deadline for the SJO.

                              However, for this to pass, it would need the support of at least some VMRO DPMNE MPs, which many observers say is unlikely.

                              Janeva said that the SJO will continue to investigate matters after the deadline to file charges expires. She said that only 45 per cent of the mass of wiretapped conversations it received have been listened to so far
                              “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                              • Tomche Makedonche
                                Senior Member
                                • Oct 2011
                                • 1123



                                SDS won’t let Opposition pick new prosecutor

                                As Macedonian Parliament gathered to discuss the proposal to remove Public Prosecutor Marko Zvrlevski from office, VMRO-DPMNE called on SDS to respect its pledge that the opposition will nominate the next Public Prosecutor. SDS leader Zoran Zaev said that his majority in Parliament will not allow this, and that the option will be introduced in two years time.

                                “We propose two significant changes in the election of a Public Prosecutor. One of them is what SDS was promising during the elections, and that is that the Public Prosecutor will be nominated by the political opposition. The second proposal is to elect the candidate with a two thirds majority. This would mean that the largest opposition party will nominate a candidate and he or she will need to win the support of two thirds of the members of Parliament. This will lead to greater inclusiveness in the process, a word that is often use by the new Government, and will mean that the reforms will be introduced jointly, with consensus. I hope that they will remain firm in the pledge they made during the election campaign”, VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Ilija Dimovski said.

                                Quisling Zoran Zaev acknowledged that his SDS party made the promise, but said that it will only be applicable after two years. “We promised we would do so after the second year of our term”, Zaev said. SDS blamed the previous, VMRO-DPMNE led Government of corruption and announced that the new Public Prosecutor will have to investigate these allegations. “In order for the opposition to have credibility to propose expert candidates, it must first clear up with crime in its own ranks. The opposition will nominate the next Public Prosecutor after all the crimes of the previous Government are investigated”, SDS said in a press release. The SDS led Government proposed removing Public Prosecutor Marko Zvrlevski from office. SDS has accused him of being biased against them in his work, while VMRO-DPMNE likewise accuse the Special Prosecutor’s Office of being close to SDS.

                                Dimovski also proposed two other bills, which were made as campaign promises by SDS. One is to abolish the household tax used to fund the public MRTV radio television broadcaster, and the other, to increase salaries in the public administration by 5 percent, which was also a promise made by the VMRO-DPMNE campaign. The SDS led majority in Parliament rejected the proposal to have the MRTV tax abolished as an urgent measure
                                “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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