PM Levels Criticism of ‘Party People’ in Judiciary

When it comes to the five members of the Judicial Council that didn’t survive the no-confidence motions in Parliament on 11 March (Vesna Dameva, Selim Ademi, Tanja Cacarova-Ilievska, Milazim Mustafa, and Pavlina Crvenkovska) and Chief Public Prosecutor Ljupco Kocevski, the government still expects them to resign.

On Thursday, PM Hristijan Mickoski again said “party people” were not needed in the judiciary.

In that regard, he levelled criticism over the Mazut case (in which Pucko Petrol owner Asmir Jahoski, son of former DUI MP and ex-Plasnica Mayor Ismail Jahoski is among the suspects), that is, at Islam Abazi as well, even though he didn’t mention the Chief of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption by name.

However, the Office told Sloboden Pecat that its Chief hadn’t been in the country during the preparation of the action and on the day the operation had taken place.