NEWS OF THE DAY: Alliance for Albanians and Alternativa: We are not negotiating for participation in Government
The Coalition Alliance for Albanians and Alternativa today at a press conference announced that their representatives have not had any official meeting or any other meeting on the topic of participating in the new government and that they will not negotiate until DUI exhausts the right to be part of the future government, that is, to become the opposition. For them, DUI is legal, but illegitimate winner of the elections among the parties of the Albanians.
“Even though we are legitimate winners of the July 15 elections in the Albanian political camp, we will not enter into negotiations as long as DUI does not fulfil the pre-election promise for Naser Ziberi to be a prime minister. As we said, if the proposal for Naser Ziberi to be a prime minister comes to Parliament, we with our 12 MPs will vote for him. However, if DUI does not succeed to realize this promise, for which it has legitimacy, that party has no right to be part of the future government and its place is in opposition”, said Alternativa’s Secretary General Skender Zeid Rexhepi at a press conference.
CIVIL NEWS CIVIL is organizing a series of panel discussions and other online events with the joint title “Nationalism” on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 18-19, 2020, starting at 10.00 am, which will be broadcast live on the organization’s Facebook page. The events are part of CIVIL’s newest action “Citizens forum for participation in government policy making”.
The program begins with a one-hour panel discussion with university professors Mirjana Najcevska and Violeta Petrovska Beska.
A panel discussion with Petrit Saracini (CIVIL) and Filip Stojanovski (Metamorphosis Foundation) starts at 11.30 am.
Activists Jane Gjorgjioski and Arian Mehmeti will speak on the topic from 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm, while Xhabir Deralla will hold a public presentation from 2.30 pm. Xhevdet Hajredini, finance expert and columnist, is on the programme at 3.30 pm. CIVIL’s call to its members, supporters, collaborators and all interested citizens to take part in the new action Citizens forum for participation in government policy making , has reached many citizens, activists and supporters of the organization. We have already received on our emails a large number of messages with articulated demands for the future government, which are already being published on CIVIL’s media platform. Citizen Despina Vlakjeska expressed her demands for the future government through the following text:
After a long period of greyness lurking over the social processes in our country, there is not a single area for which ideas for radical reforms cannot be developed, through which the ill cell of society needs to and has to be treated. The future Government of the Republic of North Macedonia will be faced with the challenge of completely combatting the crime, establishing
the rule of law and an economically better state as the main goal in implementing the chapters set by the EU, among which also the goal for reforms in the administration.
All competent institutions need to put maximum effort to compensate the depositors, said Stevo Pendarovski at today’s meeting with Governor of the National Bank Anita Angelovska-Bezovska, who informed him about the closing of “Eurostandard Bank AD Skopje”. The Governor informed Pendarovski also about the activities that are intensively and in a coordinative manner being undertaken for the compensation of depositors to start within the legal deadlines, but also sooner than that. Talat Xhaferi for ТV21, in regards to the question when there will be a continuation of the Constitutive session, replied “Based on my competencies, I will convene it when I decide to. For now, I have no plans”.
Ahead of today’s protests against the increase in the price of electricity organized in Tetovo, Skopje, Gostivar, Debar, Kicevo and Struga starting at 6.00 pm and in Kumanovo at 2.00 pm, last night two vehicles of EVN were set on fire.
EUROTHINK – Center for European Strategies published the document titled “Mapping institutions in the area of justice, freedom and security”, which is a guideline through the complex institutional structure relevant for areas such as border control, fight against organized crime, terrorism, human trafficking and other serious forms of crime.
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Translation: N. Cvetkovska
