“This Agreement is damaging for the interests of my nation and fatherland, and as such it is UNACCEPTABLE for VMRO-DPMNE and the majority of citizens of Republic of Macedonia, which was evident at the last referendum, where despite the brutal and violent filling in of the boxes with ballots , on part of people close to the government, still they weren’t successful in their intention to secure basic conditions for the referendum to be considered successful.”
This is what Hristijan Mickoski, the president of VMRO-DPMNE, replied to yesterday’s letter from Wess Mitchell, the US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, where he asked Mickoski to pledge both publicly and privately in order to open space for VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs to express their will freely about the constitutional changes at the Parliament.
Mickoski’s letter ends with the following maxim “It is always the darkest before dawn.”
While he thanked for the support in Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic integration efforts, Mickoski said that the process of negotiations with Greece was manipulative and clandestine, and the referendum question was manipulative.
