“Bomb” in Gostivar: VMRO-DPMNE and DUI agree party employments

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Today in Gostivar, SDSM announced new wiretapped materials. According to Blagojche Trpeski, president of the municipal organization of SDSM in Gostivar, they include the abuse of public enterprises in Gostivar for party interests of VMRO-DPMNE, the bargaining between VMRO-DPMNE and DUI for local elections, as well as party employments.

In the first conversation that was published, ELEM director Vlatko Chingoski asks Aleksandar Levkovski, director of HPP “Gostivar,” to provide a vehicle for party needs.

In the second conversation, interlocutors argue about the jobs of Macedonians and Albanians in Gostivar. They say they have confirmed the party employments in HPP “Mavrovo” but that it is gone so far as to hire people under the party directive, although there are no premises, or even work for them.

In the third conversation is heard how Vlatko Chingoski and Oner Jakuposki, director of National Park “Mavrovo”, negotiate better job for President of the Municipal Committee of VMRO-DPMNE in Debar.

Vlatko Chingoski and Sasho Akimovski, MP and chairman of the MC of VMRO-DPMNE in Gostivar, discuss about abuses of VMRO-DPMNE of the state institutions in Gostivar and volunteering in the institutions which requires the consent of the party’s personnel committee of VMRO-DPMNE.

Akimovski complains that the list of volunteers engaged in the regional units of ELEM in Gostivar has more Albanians than Macedonians and that it would be a disaster for the city. Chingoski admits that it was agreed with DUI that 28 out of 150 people to be from that party.

Gordana Jankuloska and Sasho Mijalkov discuss problems in Gostivar. She said there was a problem with the “Indians”, but they solved it and explains to him that Musa called her. They talk about that some unimportant things can cause a big problem.

In a conversation between Antonio Miloshoski and Darko Dimitrieski, former MP of VMRO-DPMNE from Gostivar, Dimitrieski admits that election list of councilors from VMRO-DPMNE is not good, that there are no people with authority.

According to Dimitrieski, Rufi Osmani was the real favorite on the local elections. Fatmir Besimi from DUI also confirms the bartering with VMRO-DPMNE party members to vote for the candidates of DUI in Tetovo and Gostivar.

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