If she won the presidential election, her policy as head of state toward neighboring countries would be Scandinavian, VMRO-DPMNE’s presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova said in a TV interview.
The MP and presidential candidate also said if she became head of state she would pay her first official visit to a country from the region, likely Slovenia or Croatia as EU member states.
“Because if we don’t stand together and support one another regionally, we can’t expect support from other countries,” Siljanovska-Davkova said, pointing to Sweden, Finland and Denmark’s supportive stance toward Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania on their way to building democracy even though, she noted, they had a worse starting point than the former Yugoslav countries.
The VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate also said she had expected EU member states in the neighborhood to be the first to help Macedonia, but they, she said, “cannot leave behind the Balkan logic of ultimatums, nationalism, Balkanization, corruption and crime.”
