There will be no constitutional changes without VMRO-DPMNE, says Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski and adds that the current authorities “will not succumb to blackmail related to the Bulgarian demands”.
Mickoski assessed that the previous Government of SDSM and DUI ‘signed a capitulation’ by accepting those demands and presented three messages regarding the current political situation.
“I am sending three general messages. The first message is that there will be no constitutional changes without VMRO-DPMNE. Opposition politicians can be the soft tissue of Macedonian identity and statehood, and that is what they have chosen, I can neither judge them nor give them words of praise. Secondly, I am aware, absolutely, that the previous Government signed a white sheet of paper that we call capitulation, due to different interests. DUI had some interests then, SDSM had other interests. But what unites them is the thought and desire that if they sign a white sheet of paper, someone will simply give them victory in the parliamentary elections that followed. It is obvious that this did not happen and they are now in deep opposition and in the internal disintegration of the structures of both political parties,” said PM Mickoski.
The PM adds that the Government is aware of the obligations undertaken by the previous cabinet, but also of, as he says, Bulgaria’s obligations in terms of human rights.
“We know exactly what the obligations are that the previous government undertook. But we also know exactly what the obligations are that a previous government of our eastern neighbor undertook, and that is consistent respect for human rights by signing and ratifying the Resolution on Respect for Human Rights. Today you have 14 judgments of the Court of Human Rights at least with which Bulgaria is obliged to allow the registration of OMO Ilinden – Pirin, it refuses to do so. And this Resolution is much earlier than these conditions were accepted by the previous capitulating Macedonian government led by SDSM and DUI,” PM Mickoski pointed out.
