President of Parliament Talat Xhaferi interrupted the 50th session before its agenda was voted and scheduled it for tomorrow at 12.00 noon, after previously the opposition MPs said that today they will not take part in the work of the Parliament, because their draft decisions on the dismissal of Minister of Health Venko Filipce and his Deputy Ilir Hasani were not put as an item on the agenda, nor were their resignations submitted by the Government.
Xhaferi emphasized that the opposition MPs decided “out of conscience, not to take part in the work for which they are paid”.
– Leave your conscience. I will not be the one assessing that conscience, but the citizens on October 17. Secondly, on “Facebook” statuses they call on my conscience, that is why here I will say, show the picture of conscience. Today two MPs from the majority are prevented from coming to work due to health reasons, one is in isolation due to a family member, and the other is with such a disease diagnosis that we do not know what the outcome and the results of the control will be, and they have decided out of conscience not to be at work today. And it’s my obligation to pay them for today as well, said Xhaferi and interrupted the session rescheduling it for tomorrow at 12.00 noon.
The coordinator of the parliamentary group VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Micevski, made a remark to the President of the Parliament that despite their demands he had continued the session as if nothing happened.
– The moment is too sensitive and I think that we should not play with such things, especially with resignations out of moral reasons. We, as a legislative house, should not participate in the circus that Prime Minister Zaev has decided to make in this period, said Micevski, who outlined that once the resignations had reached the Government, they should have immediately been submitted to the Parliament.
The coordinator of the SDSM parliamentary group, Jovan Mitrevski, in a procedural remark said that the Minister of Health had always been correct towards them and that after they leave the hall many of them would call him to apologize.
– What you wanted to do is to take advantage of the sorrow of all citizens, of the families of the victims, for small political points, but that did not pass. No matter how much you wanted to act, it showed, said Mitrevski, adding that the oppositions is not allowing the investigation on the fire in the Tetovo modular hospital to be completed and for a decision to made then.
– It is not fair to the public. Today there are items on the agenda that are in the interest of the citizens, such as the Law of Obligatory Relations, with which we requested that the interest rates not be higher than the public debt. Today you are leaving the session, precisely when there is such an item on the agenda, said Mitrevski.
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
