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On Saturday, PM Hristijan Mickoski said the country’s position regarding the constitutional changes was clear.
“For the constitutional changes process to start, it’s necessary for what we’re proposing to be accepted, which is those constitutional changes entering into force once Bulgaria’s Parliament ratifies the EU accession agreement of our country.
I think that’s a fair solution for all, considering the position we’ve been put in by the government in which [former Foreign Minister] Bujar Osmani, who led behind him [former Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan] Maricic and [former PM Dimitar] Kovacevski, had a key say. I’m now finding out what was being done then. That information’s shocking, which is why we’re now fiercely fighting. As long as I am the PM, there will be no other type of constitutional changes,” he noted.
Regarding the issue of a letter to Brussels, he said it was pointless to send one because everything that would have been contained in it had been discussed with EU leaders and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who’d visited Skopje two days prior. When it comes to the Bulgarian elections issue, he said he was offering a chance for dialogue after the polls.
Mickoski finds it more acceptable for Boyko Borissov’s GERB to come to power, considering it and VMRO-DPMNE are part of the EPP. As far as the Law on Languages issue is concerned, the PM called for there to be no pressure on the Constitutional Court, that is, he urged political factors, as he stressed, not to instigate tensions by lying to citizens that the official use of the Albanian language was being abolished.
According to the PM, that was done during the abolition of the Balancer tool. When it comes to higher education, the PM said he was not satisfied with the situation facing the sector, adding that steps to stabilise it were being taken.
