Mijalkov shakes or strengthens Mickoski’s position


On Monday evening, the president of the Youth Forces Union of VMRO-DPMNE Luka Krzaloski with his crew was in Strumica where they watched the exhibition and the documentary film about the revolutionaries from that part of Macedonia. Thirty hours later, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s Young Forces resigned. He thought about it long and hard, but he had to follow the values ​​in which he believed.

“Unfortunately, I came to a conclusion, which I am convinced the wider public shares, especially the young segment of the population, that in the last period the party is preoccupied with daily politics, populism and satisfying the interests of a small group of people. Despite the fact that the current leadership had almost a year to come up with a comprehensive strategy to solve the most serious issues, it’s not just that it didn’t happen, but nothing suggests that a change of course would occur.
In addition, we note that there is a continuing deterioration in relations with the key international factors, which whether we like to admit it or not, have a huge impact on the political life in our country and in the wider Balkan region,” stressed Krzaloski.

Rangelova will not be excluded

His resignation is a continuation of the series of departures in the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE headed by President Daniela Rangelova. Their resignations will be noted in the executive committee and will begin to consider who will replace them. According to Nezavisen Vesnik/Independent Newspaper, Slobodanka Aleksovska, former director of the Employment Agency, as well as Ana Laskoska and Dafina Stojanoska, are the only two members of the current composition of the executive committee. However, VMRO-DPMNE says it is too early to speculate, leaving space for other candidates, which are not in the public’s focus at the moment. Some comment that they will wait a few more days to see when the “resignation tsunami” would stop, that is, who will remain loyal so they can start giving out posts.

“A tender will be published, the procedure will last at least one month,” VMRO-DPMNE stated.

Rangelova, meanwhile, sent a message through the media that she was ashamed of her speeches several years ago; that the party is currently heading towards complete isolation; because everyone should have come out and voted in the referendum; because it is ashamed that he left the premises when MPs voted for constitutional changes in the Parliament, she went home in tears etc. She basically threw stones towards the current leadership that her opponents were eager to see so they can remind her that she personally worked for the promotion of Hristijan Mickoski as a new president, and even was among the organizers of the Valandovo Congress. Rangelova stays VMRO-DPMNE’s MP and will not vote on constitutional changes that contradict her beliefs about Macedonia’s membership in the EU and NATO.

“We do not plan to exclude her from the party, it is unnecessary,” officials from the so-called “White Palace” claim.

Jancev – VMRO version of Zaev

However, the wave of resignations following a series of exclusions open the “Pandora’s Box” when it comes to leadership of the party as well. According to some sources from the party, this is revenge of the excluded Saso Mijalkov, who still has great power and influence on the membership. According to these assumptions, the former director of the Security and Counter-Intelligence Directorate wants to weaken Mickoski’s power as the party’s head and thus create conditions for convening an extraordinary congress on which he will demand his replacement. Currently, the strength of the VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group is reduced to a minimum, given that it controls thirty MPs who have no influence on parliamentary processes, and it is uncertain whether there will be further divisions. In addition, the executive committee is also getting thinner. Rangelova and Krzaloski, who owing to their senior positions in the UW and UYF were part of the EC, left their posts vacant, and with the excluded Mitko Jancev and Kostadin Bogdanov, they obviously reduced the committee, and therefore did not reject the complete dissolution in order to form a new one according to Mickoski’s desire. This previous, as well as the central committee, as it is speculated, was created with the assistance of Mijalkov and Gruevski, who were on Mickoski’s side last year and basically brought him to the presidency.

The context in which the latest developments in the party are being made is very amusing. It is said that the mill leads to the dismissed vice-president, Mitko Jancev, who in a statement for Nezavisen Vesnik/Independent newspaper confirmed that he would accept to be the leader of VMRO-DPMNE if he saw that there was team with a vision. Due to the public conflict with the new leadership and the clearly declared position that the boycott of the referendum is contrary to the interests of the party and the state, there is unconditional support from the international factor, who sees the pro-Western leader in the owner of Kozuvcanka. Parallels between Jancev and Zaev have already been drawn among the public, having in mind that the two come from the country’s inland, both are successful businessmen, and have entered politics through their posts as city mayors. However, it should be noted that Zaev was “Strumica’s father” since 2005, and then MP in parliament, and then reached SDSM’s leadership position following the fall of Branko Crvenkovski. Jancev, surprisingly, won last year in Kavadarci in times when Nikola Gruevski counted his last hours at the helm of the VMRO-DPMNE, and the party experienced a real debacle in the local elections. Just a few months later, Mickoski appointed him as his deputy.
But the supporters of the incumbent leader see no danger for his shift and note that Mickoski’s way has now been set up to put his own people on the leading posts in the UW and UYF, as well as other party positions in the party.

Ramka: Nikola Micevski to coordinate the VMRO-DPMNE MPs

Nikola Micevski has been appointed as the new coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of VMRO-DPMNE in the Parliament. The 45-year-old citizen of Stip, who has graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture and is a M.Sc. in Economics, has been an MP since 2014. He comes in Dragan Danev’s place, who was put to question by the leadership after he came out to vote in the referendum on the name agreement. He did not vote on the constitutional changes later on, and appeared on the occasion of the October 23 – the VMRO Day that was interpreted as an improvement of his relations with the leadership.

Dragan Danev spent eight months in the coordinating position as the successor of Vlatko Gjorcev, who, in turn, replaced Ilija Dimovski.