At a Parliament session dedicated to MP questions, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski spoke about the expectations from the work of the newly appointed chief public prosecutor.
“The expectations from the new public prosecutor are high, in the sense that we have a feeling, and to some extent information, that a large part of the cases and complaints that some institutions, as a result of the internal audit, have submitted to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, are either in a drawer or at the bottom of the priorities. Often at a Government session we have a point at which we analyze the work of the institutions based on reports that the SAO submits to the Government and so far I personally, maybe a hundred times, have asked if this has been ascertained by the State Audit Office, has this been processed somewhere? The answer without exception is “yes, it has been processed to the public prosecutor”. I expect all these cases to be taken out and processed and to see whether there is a reasonable suspicion of a crime committed by the people who led those institutions or not,” Mickoski pointed out.
The PM stressed that he expects the new public prosecutor to conduct a detailed analysis and act on these already submitted cases
“I personally expect at least two more things that are very important in the historical sense of the word for the future of this country. If we do not discover the truth about those two things, then we will live in an illusion all the time. The first thing is how magically then the prisoner Katica Janeva submitted the cases that were part of the SPO again to the judicial practice? We must find an answer to this question. That is important for the future of this country and for the judicial system and the rule of law. And secondly, also in my opinion very important, if we want a real future, and we will divide this into two subgroups, how a group of people were tried for terrorism and based on what evidence and how statements were extorted from then so-called protected witnesses, and the second subgroup of questions about how much additional income and bonuses are there for so-called special public prosecutors and why they are afraid of this case entering the investigation phase and in the courts,” said PM Mickoski.
