After four and a half years at the head of the Government, Zoran Zaev resigned as Prime Minister. His resignation was confirmed by the Parliament yesterday, and then a formal notification was sent to the President of the country, which begins to run the constitutional deadlines for the election of a new government.
According to Article 90 of the Constitution, the President of the state is obliged within ten days to entrust the mandate for the composition of the Government to a candidate of the party, ie the parties that have a majority in the Assembly.
President Stevo Pendarovski expects the entrustment of the mandate to take place next week. He said in an interview with Kanal 5 television last night that he needed another letter from the party that has the majority, in order to be able to give the mandate.
– I need another letter, to whom should I give a mandate. I can not guess, I have to get a letter from a party or parties that should say we have a majority and he and he is the prime minister. I can not give the mandate to SDSM, I must know to whom I give it as a person, specifically to a person, said Pendarovski.
According to the ongoing contacts, the head of state expects the entrustment of the mandate to take place next Tuesday or Wednesday.
– According to the contacts of the two cabinets, I think that this will happen during the next week, not only because the deadlines are running, but I think that some of their party procedures are announced for Monday night, at which it will be defined and maybe next Wednesday or Tuesday, we will be able to enter into such a procedure – giving the mandate to the prime minister, said Pendarovski.
After receiving the mandate, the new prime minister-designate will have to submit a program to the Assembly within 20 days and propose the composition of the government, and the new government will be elected by a majority vote of the total number of MPs.
The new leader of SDSM, Dimitar Kovacevski, is expected to be nominated for prime minister, who, after receiving the mandate, should submit the program and the composition of the new government cabinet to the Parliament in the first half of next month.
President Pendarovski says Kovacevski is unknown in politics because he has not been in a position before, but believes he should be given a chance.
– He should be given a chance. The fact is that he has a rich academic experience, he has years and years of party experience in SDSM, they know him there. I think there are connections with various groups that exist. “I think there is a good starting point,” Pendarovski said in an interview with Kanal 5.
The resignation of the current Prime Minister Zaev was confirmed at yesterday’s parliamentary session after he submitted it to the Parliament yesterday. Zaev announced his resignation after the local elections in which his party was defeated. According to him, the resignation is a logical step that arises from the outcome of the local elections and is an expression of responsibility for the election results.
Zaev, who recently left the leadership position in the ruling SDSM, which he headed since 2013, has been the Prime Minister since May 31, 2017, and won a second term as Prime Minister in the July 15 elections last year.
The Alliance for Albanians assessed Zaev’s resignation as belated.
– Zaev’s resignation is already overdue and only shows that he resigned when his personal condition is not good, and not when the state and citizens are not in a good situation. Unfortunately, the state and the citizens have not been in good condition for a long time, especially after two tragedies, the one at the modular hospital and the accident in Bulgaria, for which there are no answers yet and no one is responsible, said yesterday the coordinator of the parliamentary group of the Alliance for Albanians, Ilire Daute.
Due to Zaev’s resignation, with which the entire Government is resigning, the session for parliamentary questions was not held yesterday.
The explanation from the President of the Assembly Talat Xhaferi was that it is inexpedient to hold a session on parliamentary issues, because the entire government is resigning, to which VMRO-DPMNE and the Alliance for Albanians reacted.
– What worries us and what the Government is persistently trying to cover up is the part of the Constitution where in Article 93, among other paragraphs where the resignation of the Government is regulated, paragraph 5 says that the Government, which was voted no confidence, resigned or whose mandate was terminated due to the dissolution of the Assembly remains in office until the election of a new government. That is what we are talking about, in law there is an institute government in resignation, it is a government that should lead the country in the next period until the election of a new one according to the deadlines and rules we have, said yesterday the coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Micevski.
According to him, the cancellation of this session is “another proof plus for the non-transparency of the work of the Government and for its constant attempts to escape responsibility and give answers for the bad work”.
Source: MIA
