VMRO-DPMNE lawmakers abandoned Monday the session discussing the no confidence motion for Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski. The opposition MPs were not included in the list of speakers due to the fact, as Speaker Talat Xhaferi explained, that the opposition submitted the list a few hours later, while their representative failed to attend the coordination meeting earlier in the day.

VMRO-DPMNE whip Nikola Micevski said the list submission was delayed because they filed criminal charges against Speaker Xhaferi for the 36th session that was attended by COVID-19 infected MPs.

“For the first time on record, the largest opposition party is not allowed to discuss the work of a minister,” said Micevski.

Xhaferi said he did not work as the parties pleased but in line with the Rules of Procedures.

Earlier, Alliance for Albanians/Alternativa MP Halil Snopche elaborated the no confidence motion, saying that despite the fact that former secret police chief Sasho Mijalkov is in detention, the case involving his escape and subsequent reappearance, the issuance of passports to criminals and other cases were the reasons for Minister Spasovski to leave the Government.

Spasovski responded that the session is a good opportunity for him to present everything that has been done since assuming the post.

“I must say that today we have, to put it mildly, an odd no confidence motion. Why odd? Because it has been filed as a result of a successful operation. Namely, Sasho Mijalkov is in prison where he belongs, both him and many other former officials-criminals, who relentlessly robbed the people instead of doing the job they were elected to do. The same Mijalkov whose name you feared uttering for years. What an irony – the idol and ideologist of VMRO-DPMNE is in prison and the opposition files a no confidence motion for the Minister of Interior?! This motion is a real reflection of the deranged system of values of the opposition, and that is why it is odd to say the least,” noted Spasovski.