We spoke with Dzevdet Hajredini about Macedonia’s perspectives for 2020, about what needs to be paid more attention and about the upcoming early parliamentary elections in April.
Hajredini says that the fate is uncertain and the solving of Macedonia’s problems in the next five or six years.
“In 2020, early parliamentary elections are foreseen in April, which means that Macedonia definitely is an example of a state in which early elections are becoming regular. Macedonia has saved itself from definitive disintegration by solving the two problems with the two neighbouring countries, however, the startling crime, corruption and ruthless spending of money in the former days of the joint government of VMRO-DPMNE and DUI, which unfortunately for four years, the holders of such a regime still remain unpunished”, says Hajredini.
He says that at the previous elections, in 2016, SDSM had promised that that crime and corruption would be dealt with, but those high officials of those two parties are still not punished, and those who have been caught have escaped prison and left the country.
In regards to the question why no one is in jail for those criminal acts, Hajredini says that the current government is impressed by the fact that it has resolved the name dispute with Greece and that internally they were not prepared to take decisive steps.
“The parties, for well-known reasons, cannot say they don’t want elections, because their rivals will say they are afraid. Elections don’t suit any of them, but they have come in such a situation where publically they cannot solve it and they are all risking losing. Regardless of the epilogue of the results at the elections, they will not solve anything in Macedonia”, adds Hajredini.
Diana Tahiri
text editing: Angela Petrovska
camera: Arian Mehmeti
editing: Vladimir Percuklievski
Translation: Natasa Cvetkovska
