Former Macedonian President from the ranks of SDSM, Stevo Pendarovski, in an interview Monday evening talked about the meetings that were held in his presidential office, attended by several officials, such as Ali Ahmeti and the ambassadors of the United States and the EU, and the ways they were looking to implement constitutional amendments.
Pendarovski points out that as the head of state, SDSM demanded that he pardon former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski as an option to quickly get to the constitutional amendments, so that he would return to Macedonia and, as a counter-service, convince a certain number of VMRO-DPMNE MPs to vote for a change to the Macedonian Constitution.
The former president of Macedonian claims that he rejected such a proposal by SDSM and directed them to pass an Amnesty Law in Parliament if they wanted, as they did a few years ago, which pardoned some of the MPs who voted for the name change and were accused of breaking into Parliament.
“The amnesty law was adopted in parliament and included these eight people, some more, some less, who voted later for Severna. And at the beginning, as the host of this meeting that I am mentioning to you, I say at the beginning, you will allow me to explain a few positions that relate to my thinking about this entire political context and, among other things, I say, I hear that there is speculation somewhere that I should pardon Gruevski, so that we can finish this job as quickly as possible, so he would come back, he would convince a certain number VMRO MPs, and the amendments would be passed. I said that no one should count on that. I have no intention of pardoning Gruevski in any way. If you want it that much, and I’m addressing those from the ruling coalition, you have enough majority, push for the Amnesty Law in Parliament,” said Pendarovski.
He also noted that suggestions on how to achieve constitutional amendments were made by both the United States ambassador and the then EU ambassador David Geer.
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