1We have a double drama. The announcements of a new parliamentary majority resemble the date for the start of the EU accession talks and Bulgaria’s veto. It will happen today, it will happen tomorrow, it’s almost happened, but next week we’ll know for sure…
Let’s be clear. Aside from the big stories of Euro-Atlantic perspectives and peace in the country and world peace, it’s a matter of negotiating how many ministerial and director-level posts to give to the new government coalition partners. Is Ali Ahmeti willing for DUI to give up some of those posts in the name of the Euro-Atlantic perspective, which apparently is the most important thing for him? Or will he blackmail Zaev, in the name of the Euro-Atlantic perspective, so SDSM would step down from some of their posts.
In fact, the “unification of progress” is unification for the ministerial posts. And it will be quite easy to distribute them. But the drama over the negotiations for the director-level posts will have to continue next week. You don’t just ruin progress for a couple of director-level posts.
2 The new mayor of Skopje, Danela Arsovska, dropped the act of being an independent candidate supported by VMRO-DPMNE just three days after taking office. I’m still not sure if the idea of not appearing at the ceremony for the “13 November” Award was hers, or the party that supported her was behind it. If it was only her idea, she wouldn’t have appeared at the other ceremony to lay flowers at the monument to the liberators of Skopje. The explanation for not appearing at the awards ceremony, that the event was organized by Petre Shilegov, sounds exactly like something VMRO would do – we like being stubborn, we’ll bash everyone, even the winners of the award, we’ll keep doing our thing because “everything starts from us.” As if Petre Shilegov is the one who founded the award.
Danela started her term by doing what the party would do and the stain won’t wash off. And she chose to do that at the most formal event. She chose the right moment – the Day of the liberation of Skopje from the fascist occupier.
And so, the play “The first woman at the head of Skopje after Vera Aceva” quickly ended. By disrespecting the holiday of the liberation of Skopje, Danela Arsovska insulted the memory of the only previous female mayor of Skopje, the partisan Vera Aceva.
3The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, in his last interview on Telma said that “the right to choose whether to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated and thus be immunized is guaranteed by the Constitution” and that “some might decide not to be immunized with a vaccine, but to get the virus instead and be immunized that way.”
He also said he wasn’t interested in the constitutions of Greece, Germany and Austria, which restrict the rights of the unvaccinated.
I don’t believe that any Constitution allows you to infect other people with infectious diseases. Let alone when there’s no cure for the disease, but there’s a vaccine. Because in our Constitution, in Article 39, it’s written that “The citizen has the right and duty to protect and promote his own health and the health of others.” Which means that someone’s right to be “immunized” by contracting an infectious disease is contrary to someone else’s right to remain healthy. The right of someone who has decided to go for natural immunization and thus keep medical staff busy and block hospitals is contrary to the right of another to have access to the same medical staff and the same hospitals. Since, health insurance is paid by those who have the right to contract the virus, but also by those who want to stay healthy.
I don’t know how we’ve got to this low point, to debate over something like this with the leader of the largest opposition party. As a politician, Mickoski’s policy is to constantly oppose everything, so it’s sheer populism when he says that everyone has the right to contract the infectious disease and to die if that’s what fate had in store for them. But, should we really explain all of this to Professor Mickoski, who is a member of the technological intelligentsia. I’m very interested in what Professor Mickoski thinks about the politician Mickoski, while he’s convincing him that everyone has the right to put their life in danger, and not just their life, but also the lives of everyone around him.
4 In the Bulgarian presidential and parliamentary elections, 650 voters voted at polling places in Macedonia. Out of the 130,000 Macedonian citizens believed by Bulgarians to have a Bulgarian passport, 0.5 percent voted in the elections. Unless the others went to the polls in Petrich and at the address of the utility pole in Kyustendil, their residence address, as stated at the Agency for Bulgarians Abroad by Karakachanov.
5 The Minister of Transport Blagoj Bochvarski announced that the construction works on the first section of the motorway Skopje – Blace have been completed. The section is two kilometers long.
The entire motorway should be 12 kilometers long. The first 2 kilometers were to be ready this past summer. Minister Bochvarski says that they’ll be ready next summer. Given the pace of construction of roads across the country, the other 10 kilometers will probably be ready when the motorway from Kicevo to Ohrid is completed. When hell freezes over.
Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski
