New Reactions to Appointment of Hristovski as Agency for National Security Head

On Friday, in its annex bulletin, the Faculty of Security confirmed the new Director of the Agency for National Security, Bojan Hristovski, had been named Criminalistics Assistant. 

According to the CV, it can be included that Hristovski met criteria for the head position in 2023, when he got a degree from the Skopje-based Tourism and Management University’s Faculty of Economics. He had managerial positions within the now-defunct Security and Counter-Intelligence Directorate from 2012-2017.

However, there are no exact dates to confirm whether he did so for five full years, which is a legal criterion for a person to head the Agency.

Additionally, he got an English language certificate from a language studio based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, called “Julija”. From 2007 to 2017, Hristovski held other positions too, including head of a board for financial control of Pelister National Park, as well as member of several managing boards, including at the Orthopaedics Clinic and Ljuben Lape Primary School.

Commenting on the CV, SDSM said whether Hristovski lad been lying in the document, considering there were no exact dates about his experience from 2012 to 2017 and considering there was no TOEFL centre in Plovdiv.

However, VMRO-DPMNE has maintained that there’s been no wrongdoing when it comes to the appointing process. For Telma, Hristovski himself said the appointment was legal.

Asked what he would do if PM and his former party leader, Hristijan Mickoski, ordered him to do something, Hristovski stated that he had always made decisions independently and that that would continue to be the case. Mickoski himself has maintained that Hristovski is the right person for the job.