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Tuesday’s session of Parliament’s Committee for Supervising the Work of the National Security Agency and Intelligence Agency which was supposed to see the appointment of Bojan Hristovski as the Agency for National Security Director analysed was interrupted.
Representatives of the ruling majority requested for the agenda to be amended in order to include visits to the two Agencies because of PM Hristijan Mickoski’s comments at the Q&A session in the legislative house, when he’d said he’d been being followed during his time as the opposition leader.
However, MP Skender Rexhepi Zejd, who chairs the Committee, refused to put the proposal up for a vote because the PM hadn’t filed a request for the matter to be considered and because he had no security clearance for such visits. VMRO-DPMNE accused him of violating the Rules of Procedure and overstepping authority.
SDSM MPs, the ones that had submitted the initiative for the session, described events within the body as “tyranny” by the majority. As a result, they pointed out, they will initiate a change to the Rules of Procedure.
Though Hristovski was present at the session, he didn’t speak at all. SDSM, which has challenged the Agency’s head TOEFL certificate, believes Hristovski’s appointment is illegal. The State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC), which has opened a case over the Hristovski matter is still waiting to receive the TOEFL certificate that, according to the Agency’s head’s CV, was issued by the Julia Centre in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
