Northern Macedonia: Prime Minister-designate Mickoski says Prespa is ‘a reality’

The leader of the largest opposition party in northern Macedonia, the right-wing VMRO-DPMNE, Christian Mickovski, said in an interview last night on Skopje’s largest private television station, Sitel, that he would never use the country’s new name. Macedonia), despite the fact that it recognizes, as he said, that the Prespa Agreement is a reality that no one can ignore.

“You can not expect me to repeat the definition like Zoran Zaef (s.s .: North). I will never do that. But the Prespa agreement, which brings with it a specific reality in Macedonia – we are “We are part of this Parliament, we are participating in elections in the country, we are part of a reality which unfortunately was adopted by Zoran Zaef – we can not ignore it, we can not be hypocrites and say that it is not reality,” said Christian Mitskoski.

These statements by the leader of the official opposition of Northern Macedonia come at a time when opposition parties have announced that they have secured a parliamentary majority to overthrow the government of Zoran Zaef, which, as they claim, has now lost. .

Earlier Sunday, Christian Mickowski gave Prime Minister Zaef a “deadline” to submit his resignation by noon on Monday, adding that if that did not happen, he would file a motion of censure against the government in parliament this afternoon.

These developments follow the heavy defeat of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SDSM) of Zoran Zaef in last Sunday’s municipal elections and the statement of the latter that he will resign from the post of Prime Minister of the country.