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In Saturday’s interview with Sitel, SDSM leader Venko Filipce again said the EU path was fully blocked and cast aside. The ruling coalition, he believes, has shown that, unlike his party, it doesn’t want to solve major problems.
Regarding Bulgaria’s requirements on the EU path, he stated that they were obviously not new, that is, any government, whether it was a cabinet led by VMRO-DPMNE or SDSM, would have at some point faced them.
“However, we have an obligation to close issues, negotiate. We have an obligation because, first, that’s an international agreement. Why should we leave those issues for them to be being resolved by some future generations, on some archives, on secret services, on a country in which none of the future generations didn’t live? Come on, let’s close those issues.
At the same time, an awfully bad propaganda has been spread to reduce the appetite for the EU, that is, that we brought a bad proposal and that our identity and language have been endangered. No element of our identity, language, nation has been endangered. All of that’s confirmed in international documents”, Filipce stressed.
The SDSM leader believes that parties from the ethnic Albanian bloc that are part of the ruling coalition, too, have an obligation to citizens to deliver on the promise regarding the EU path.
“I don’t know how they will participate in elections when they’re clearly part of an anti-European ruling coalition”, the opposition leader stressed.
In the interview, asked about Zoran Zaev, Filipce said had neither joint businesses nor common real estate with the former party leader and ex-PM.
“We can only learn from our predecessors. Zaev’s no longer in politics”, he stated.
According to Filipce, it’s funny that VMRO-DPMNE criticises Zaev even though it enjoys the benefits of his policies.
“Let’s see what the Defence Minister [, Vlado Misajlovski,] thinks when he participates in NATO meetings, when he proudly sits there, when he debates, when he has photos of him taken”, he underlined.
Regarding the leaders’ meeting with PM Hristijan Mickoski, Filipce stated that “my party and I have an obligation to work very intensively, considering the situation the country is in and how the VMRO-DPMNE-led government runs the country”.
In that regard, he underlined that he’d been part of the meeting for reasons related to statesperson-like policies.
“The government-opposition collaboration can be only consensual making of joint laws. First, SDSM will work on one such law in relation to the Justice Ministry”, Filipce underlined.
