The protests before the Parliament to last until New Year’s Eve

The protests will be held at least until New Year’s Eve in front of the Parliament of Macedonia, where the new stages of the constitutional changes are taking place. Citizens gathering in front of the Assembly on daily basis require MPs to resign and not accept the change in the country’s constitutional name and acceptance of the agreement with Greece. The most consistent ones sleep in tents in front of the Parliament and announce that they stay there as long as it takes. Various speakers, who deliver their demands to politicians, are also addressing the people on an improvised stage.

“We demand the dismissal of the Parliament and the scheduling of elections without Zoran Zaev as prime minister. While the MPs sell Macedonia, we defend the Macedonian state and the Macedonian people. We are entering the final battle, this is the last chance for our generation. Anti-Macedonian policies have reached the highest point: either we will allow the marionette  government in Skopje to wipe out everything that is Macedonian, or Macedonia will win so that we can keep what is ours,” emphasized Macedonia’s boycotting.

They received a response from the ruling SDSM, which called them marginal groups and individuals – remnants of the regime.

“We call for responsible behavior and we emphasize that threats, calls for lynch, and hate speech are against the law. Insults and slanders against anyone are contrary to democratic values, contrary to the concept of a society that is accepted by the majority of citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. This confirms that the nervousness of the remnants of the regime is enormous because they do not have the support of the citizens and they fail to block the future of Macedonia. We urge the citizens to be calm and not succumb to provocations and violent rhetoric. Institutions have the capacity to adequately, professionally, indiscriminately and within the legal competencies respond to all challenges,” reads the statement from SDSM.

In the reaction sent by Janko Bacev’s “United Macedonia”, the party expressed its disapproval that the people who protested were called marginal people and asked whether Zaev threatened with a lawsuit for anyone who uses the word Macedonia. They stated that it was not true that the protests’ turnout was low, claiming that there were more people than SDSM’s “NATO parties”.

Yesterday, in some of the news websites, appeared a photograph in which the opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski could be seen sitting on a case in the company of the protesters, which came to a great surprise, given that VMRO-DPMNE so far had not participated in such gatherings against the Prespa agreement.

“The photograph is fake, Mickoski was not present at the protest in front of the Parliament,” claimed VMRO-DPMNE.

(GA)