Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will not appear at the hearing in front of the Inquiry Commission on the wire-tapping scandal because of his regular duties as Prime Minister and will respond to the invitation on December 14, 2015 and will address MPs, said today’s statement by VMRO-DPMNE.
The Prime Minister today was going to be the first witness at the meeting of the Inquiry Committee on the wire-tapping scandal, and was proposed by VMRO-DPMNE as a witness.
According to the schedule, which was announced on Monday by the Committee Chairman, Petre Shilegov tomorrow as witnesses should appear, Martin Protoger and Zoran Stavreski, and on Friday – Saso Mijalkov.
For next week Gordana Jankulovska is scheduled to testify on Monday, and Mile Janakieski on Tuesday.
Mr Shilegov said on Monday said that the schedules are a public call to people who want to appear before the Inquiry Commission and give their own statement of facts, circumstances on the content of the published wire-tapped conversations.
The VMRO-DPMNE reacted to this and has accused Mr Shilegov of making the schedules on his own, cancelling sessions and hearings on his own, and treating the Inquiry Committee as his own privately owned game.
Antonio Milososki asked that sessions of testimonies by witnesses proposed by the VMRO-DPMNE not be open to the public.
According to the rules of procedure of the committee, witnesses may require sessions to be closed to the public, but also they can ask members of the committee to vote by majority.. Witnesses will be called by the Inquiry Commission have no legal obligation to accept the request and to testify.
All activities of the Inquiry Commission on the wire-tapping scandal should be finished by January 22, 2016, and the Committee should have their report ready by the 31st of January.
