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It’s unknown whether there will be a student gathering on Monday (24 March) at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. On Sunday, first, the Independent Student Union said it had cancelled the 24 March event, citing “obvious” political influences.
However, the University’s Independent Student Assembly stated that the information that the event had been cancelled were fake. The discord followed a video that had been posted online, showing an online meeting attended by several young persons from North Macedonia, as well as one from Serbia, who, as can be seen and heard, instructs the others how to organize protests in North Macedonia similar to those in her country.
Among those that attended the meeting was Kiril Mitanovski, a student who is a member of Levica. In a part of the conversation, he admits that he is a party member, but adds that the goal, according to them, is, through a so-called Student Plenum, to initiate protests that will seem spontaneous, as authentic student dissatisfaction, to prevent the normal functioning of institutions and for them to present themselves through fake profiles on social media and anonymous organizers.
Some media have reported that the so-called instructor is a Serbian architecture student, Stasa Cvetkovic, which, in media reports in Serbia, she appears as an activist for the rights of young people and students.
“First thing, what you say about you being part of a party matters only when you convene the Plenum”, she points out, adding that after that, the idea is for the Plenum to be able to exist even if someone is no longer part of it.
So, Cvetkovic points out, the Plenum is a social construction, a body, not the people.
“Don’t only focus on your PM resigning and elections being scheduled. That is not productive. Definitely, the blockade is most efficient as it creates pressure on the Rector and direct pressure on the state, which cannot get the EU funds it gets for education”, the Serbian girl points out.
Another person says regarding the Kocani fire that the entire place has been ruined.
“So, there is an entire village that’s been ruined. There is no chance of those people keeping calm. It’s to no avail”, he stresses.
The same person adds that there cannot be a situation in which the responsibility doesn’t fall on anybody over the fire.
“The blame is in the injury, in the pain of the people, and it will be that. So, we now should organize somehow to see how to use that most effectively”, he adds.
