“The U.S. is no longer the beacon of democracy that we all looked up to”, former President Pendarovski said in an interview with the 360 Degrees program on MTV1.
Trump’s America is a country where transactional politics is the first and final principle by which policy is conducted, he added.
Regarding domestic topics, he said the idea of merging the Agency for National Security and the Intelligence Agency was not good because it was always better for them to be under different political authorities or branches of government for better oversight, at least until the country completed its democratic transition.
Regarding the so-called spy issue, he asked how President Siljanovska Davkova could state that there was no affair involving potential espionage considering the person suspected of having extracted information from the computer system within the Cabinet had been suspended.