First penalty cards for the “Colorful”


While the people on “Ilindenska” decided on the future of the Director of the Agency for Tourism, four kilometers south of the government building, another director, the Macedonian National Theater, caused a car accident in a drunken state. Both are no longer at the helm of the institutions they managed until two days ago. Mostly, both because of irresponsibility: one flied with a business class at a trade fair in Argentina, the other “flying” with few glasses of alcohol in him. Through their examples, the government wanted to send a message that everyone would bear responsibility for their mistakes. But Aleksandar Donev and Dragan Spasov-Dac are connected in one other way: the two were prominent members of the “Colorful Revolution”, which led the street protests against the old government, and then turned it into the bodies of the current one.

Citizens and the public, who felt betrayed by the swift preference of revolutionaries in state actors and in sharp followers of the policies of the current government at the expense of the progressive attitudes they cherished until yesterday, are not sure if the first yellow cards for the “colorful” are pure coincidence and consequence of events, an attempt to discipline potential sinners and the disobedient, or simply enforce respecting of the order and rules.
Zdravko Saveski, one of the leaders of Levica, is a fierce critic of the echelon administrators mobilized by the “Colorful Revolution”, to which he also belonged. . He says that he does not mind that some of his “comrades” have become part of the government, but that they have trampled the principles they swore to until recently. Immediately after the dismissals of Spasov and Donev, he concluded that SDSM wanted to scare the “colorful” who decided to serve them.
“There are already several clues in that direction. Probably due to clientele hunger and envy from the base, and perhaps because of a poor attempt to divert public anger. Oh, what arrogance of power. When it comes to your mind, throw them in the dung and your faithful servants. But this is an indication that the SDSM does not know where it is, and it is also a lesson for those who, simply because of the armchair, have rushed to sweep the principles, “Saveski believes.

He explains that Donev and Spasov had to resign, aside that one did not think about it, and the other did it after hearing the Government’s reaction. But he doubts that it is an attempt by SDSM to divert public anger towards those who have handed over the principles of the “colorful revolution”.

“The context of the event should not be forgotten either. They could not have planned it with Spasov, but Donev did the act two months ago. They did not react then, and now they dismiss him when the name negotiations are intensified, when the economic promises they made for a better standard of living are not fulfilled,” Saveski analyzes for “Nezavisen/Idependent”.

MP Pavle Bogoevski, to whom most of the criticism was directed because he moved from the street to the parliamentary benches and became part of the new ruling headquarters, does not think that the change of the two executives from the ranks of the “Colorful” is a deliberate move of leadership on “Ilindenska” street.
“I do not think that the Government sends a message to the ‘Colorful’, but I hope this is a trend of calling for responsibility for all those who will not act in accordance with the principles that bind us, and that this trend will continue and will apply equally to everyone, regardless of whether they are part of the party, movement or something else, “Bogoevski told “Nezavisen”.

Since the formation of the government on May 31 of last year, these are the only two shifts of state officials. Earlier, the Secretary General of the Government, Dragi Raskovski, was dismissed as the representative of Telecom’s shareholders assembly. The members of the State Election Commission, that is, eight of its nine members, resigned after the public learned that they shared bonuses for the work for which they were paid by the citizens and the state budget.

Goran Adamovski