{"id":136626,"date":"2021-12-31T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goranmihajlovski.com\/?p=136626"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T11:25:59","slug":"pandev-and-elmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goranmihajlovski.com\/en\/i-want-to-say\/pandev-and-elmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"PANDEV AND ELMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I really want 2022 not to be a historic year for Macedonia. This column is turning 31 in a month, and I\u2019m sick and tired of writing about historic events, historic dates, historic elections, historic accidents, historic reports, historic summits, historic parliamentary sessions\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

And for heaven\u2019s sake people, behave yourselves. Mind your manners. Can\u2019t you see that politicians have led us to a situation where we don\u2019t know how to congratulate each other. Political battle doesn\u2019t mean we have to hate each other\u2019s guts. Criticism doesn\u2019t mean we should be poisoned against each other. It\u2019s not a matter of freedom or death, is it? It\u2019s terrible when the thread that connects them isn\u2019t their ideology, but the toxic hatred that springs from the first person all the way to the last troll on social networks and when that tone of communication becomes normal.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve made a selection of 12 columns about events that I think marked (yet again, the historic,) 2021. The title is the same as the column published on 4 April, inspired by a photo of Pandev and Elmas smiling and hugging after the victory over Germany in the middle of Germany. That\u2019s the image of Macedonia. And it\u2019s a pity that we forget that photo, and we remember it only in moments of success.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear friends, hatred will be the end of us.<\/em><\/p>\n

And the biggest challenge in 2022 will be to overcome hatred with kindness.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wishing you happy holidays and many joys of life in 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n

May we all be healthy and stay forever young.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yours,<\/em><\/p>\n

Goran<\/em><\/p>\n

15 January<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be it as it may, by vetoing Bulgaria did the dirty work for the Eurosceptics. Both for the ones in the EU member states and the ones over here. Quite frankly, it will come in handy for the government as well. Who\u2019d think about the fight against corruption, the efficient civil service, transparent governance, urban planning, clean air and clean water, when the priority question is how many times Buchkovski has crossed the Deve Bair border check-point. After all, everything is as it should be. If you read the statements by the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the fight against corruption, Ljupco Nikolovski, you\u2019ll think you\u2019re living in Sweden. At the same time, his colleague Artan Grubi is organizing a private party for his buddies from DUI in the official premises of the Ministry of Nothing.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Prime Minister Zaev announced that cars with Bulgarian registration plates will be registered at a 50% lower cost. There are donkeys who obey the law and pay the full price and there are wise guys who don\u2019t obey the law and will pay at half price. The Ministry of Interior Affairs announced that whole concrete mixer trucks owned by people in the government hadn\u2019t been registered for years, while honest ordinary citizens have their credit cards in the red just to register their cars.<\/p>\n

What will be the fine for the law-abiding citizens to compensate for the reward for the insolent?<\/p>\n

If you build without a permit, they\u2019ll legalize the illegal construction. If you usurp the sidewalk in order to build an open sitting area for your caf\u00e9, they\u2019ll legalize it with the patio heaters and everything. Lay the platform planks in the lake, they\u2019ll legalize it when it becomes a restaurant. Don\u2019t pay property tax, they\u2019ll kindly ask you to pay in installments. Launder money in a Belize kind of place, bring it back as if an investment, they\u2019ll legalize it\u2026<\/p>\n

The whole battle with the disobedient has been reduced to legalization of disobedience.<\/p>\n

26 February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine if you were a newcomer and watched from the sidelines as the police, the court and the prosecution act like headless chickens trying to resolve the crisis when Mijalkov disappeared few days before the verdict. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s funnier. Their behavior then, or their explanations after the fugitive appeared at the Prosecutor\u2019s Office to take the decision for his house arrest. So much fuss about a single isolation.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to believe that \u201cthere will be justice \u2013 and even more so\u201d, as Zaev says. For heaven\u2019s sake, we\u2019ve waited for that justice since the first day he started publishing the information bombs.<\/p>\n

26 March<\/strong><\/p>\n

These couple of days, hundreds, if not thousands of Macedonian citizens are marking the anniversary of the accession to NATO waiting to get vaccinated against Covid-19 in the halls of the Belgrade Fair. Alongside the citizens of Serbia, who are also marking an anniversary these couple of days \u2013 the anniversary of NATO\u2019s bombing. It will be interesting to see whether Serbia will manage to vaccinate more Macedonians in a single weekend, than the healthcare workers Macedonia has vaccinated in a month and a half. And even that\u2019s done with vaccines gifted by Serbia.<\/p>\n

It sounds ironic? It sounds harsh? It sounds terrible? Yes. But that\u2019s the case. At least for me personally, someone who deeply believes in the Western values, the solidarity and the principles promoted by the European Union, although this disappointment is excruciatingly painful.<\/p>\n

Somehow, it feels like the European idea in Macedonia is dying. Why? Because it\u2019s the umpteenth time the European Union has abandoned us, has betrayed us, and hasn\u2019t kept its promises. Simply, it didn\u2019t prove a partner you can rely on when you need it.<\/p>\n

And what did we get for our loyalty to the EU? A veto from Bulgaria. And then we feel bad that Macedonian citizens take photos of themselves in front of the poster which reads \u201cHvala Srbija\u201d[1]<\/a> after having been vaccinated in Belgrade. Although we want to and yearn to take photos of ourselves next to \u201cEU for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

We got vaccines from Serbia. And what did we get from the EU? We got Karakachanov.<\/p>\n

So, I\u2019ve decided to get vaccinated by the \u201cdictator\u201d Vucic, since the \u201cdemocrat\u201d Borisov cuts me dead.<\/p>\n

2 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

No matter how pathetic is may sound, the photo in which Pandev and Elmas are hugging and laughing after the win over Germany, in Germany, is the picture of the real Macedonia. It\u2019s a pity that we tend to forget about that picture, so we only recall it in moments of success.<\/p>\n

The description of the picture is pathetic. But the picture itself is real. Two Macedonian footballers of different nationality play for their country and rejoice in their success in Duisburg, while at the same time in Skopje the foreign ambassadors encourage politicians to stop being at each other\u2019s throats in the Assembly. The thing is that the national team is comprised of people of all nationalities and religions, footballers are selected with regard to how good they are. While in the Assembly, MPs are elected with regard to how bad they are. In the national team they have to know how to score goals and defend. In the Assembly, MPs don\u2019t have to know anything. They just need to listen to the head of the party and take photos with him.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not used to success. And on the rare occasion when something like that happens to us, we realize how poisoned we are. We\u2019re surprised that we even know how to rejoice and be proud. Has a politician given you a reason to rejoice? Have you felt proud of your country because of a politician?<\/p>\n

Pandev and Elmas hugging \u2013 that\u2019s the real life. And parties and politicians are here to create problems so they could solve our problems afterwards. The worst part is that we don\u2019t have any other successes like the one with our win over Germany, not just in football, but in all other fields. If we had a reason to rejoice, we wouldn\u2019t give a damn about politics.<\/p>\n

16 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

If Zaev had listened two years ago, when the media started publishing documents about the wrongdoings of the then Secretary General of the Government, and until just a couple of days ago a secretary of \u201cwhatever\u201d Dragi Rashkovski, the least he could have done was to dismiss him from office. But he defended him. And he still does.<\/p>\n

But now, it won\u2019t be just Rashkovski who will go down in flames. The party will go down in flames too.<\/p>\n

The senior-year student Toni Sali passed away at 19. He fought with the state for 10 years to get his unique master citizen number. The Office for Management of Registers wouldn\u2019t issue him a birth certificate. And just like that \u2013 Toni died. We don\u2019t know how. He\u2019s gone. But, it\u2019s like he\u2019s never even existed.<\/p>\n

Everything is done according to the law in this country, where unique master citizen numbers are created for nonexistent citizens, where several ID cards with different addresses are issued to the same people for vote rigging, where valid forged passports are issued to criminals from all over the world, but there you go \u2013 when it comes to Toni from Shutka, who was a poor straight A student who won awards, nobody in the country could find a solution.<\/p>\n

How will they live with Tony\u2019s death, all those clerks who had been harassing the kid and his parents with full stops and commas for 15 years, bogging them down in red tape, sending them from one counter to another, from one institution to another and kept convincing them that \u2013 such were the laws, and the laws had to be obeyed.<\/p>\n

Do those people have a soul? Or do they have only a party membership card?<\/p>\n

11 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

I find it unbelievable that SDSM are in a position to fear losing the elections. How inapt to rule do you have to be to get to such a low level that this VMRO-DPMNE could beat you? By doing nothing. By booing.<\/p>\n

16 July<\/strong><\/p>\n

Six trials of SPO cases on high crime and corruption have been returned to the beginning after dragging on for four years.<\/p>\n

This is happening during the rule of a political structure that won the elections, led by the enthusiasm of the citizens eager for changes that they expressed in the slogan \u201cThere\u2019s no justice, there\u2019s no peace.\u201d Well, there\u2019s no justice. And peace is bought with party employments. They don\u2019t report the tip, because no tax is paid on it.<\/p>\n

13 August<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maybe Prime Minister Zoran Zaev was right that the system was working and the Prime Minister didn\u2019t have to be here, but he felt that citizens needed to see him, so he interrupted his holiday in Greece when the domestic firefighters couldn\u2019t tame the fires in the Maleshevo region. Is there really anyone who trusts the system? Those stories don\u2019t do the trick even on Facebook anymore. Even those whose job is to press likes on social media don\u2019t believe the system works, but they certainly hope they\u2019ll be rewarded with 30 per cent after the elections.<\/p>\n

No one believes that the system works even when they see the Prime Minister on TV, when he\u2019s here, let alone when he announces that he\u2019s coordinating the crisis from abroad over the phone and the Internet. What was he coordinating? The fellow-party members made directors, who were also at the beach, or the obedient mayors who spent the money they receive on official cars and salaries for staff employed by the parties, instead of spending it on municipal infrastructure that would be ready for a crisis situation?<\/p>\n

And we dare wonder why foreigners interfere in our politics. Why wouldn\u2019t they interfere, when they\u2019re doing everything \u2013 from peace agreements and party dialogues to cleaning up garbage and putting out fires. Literally too. We\u2019re lucky that our existence and stability coincides with their strategic interest, otherwise they would\u2019ve left us to burn.<\/p>\n

The only thing left for us to do is to pass our laws, print personal documents and keep order. We have laws, we\u2019ll wait for a new tender for documents, and we can\u2019t establish order. In what other country do they install bollards to save sidewalks and bike lanes from cars? And still, they break the bollards again. And no one\u2019s been punished for that. And the ones who don\u2019t punish that not punishing, are also not punished.<\/p>\n

And what does the government do? This supreme incompetence, from the smallest municipal enterprise to the highest state officials, will be rewarded with 30 per cent for \u201coutstanding results in serving the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

10 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite all the sadness, anger and despair that overwhelmed me after the terrible fire in the Covid centre in Tetovo, in which 14 people died, I have nothing to say. I was struck dumb by the realization that there\u2019s no end to this.<\/p>\n

How can one say something smart, when we haven\u2019t learned anything even after so many lessons with tragedies caused by sloppiness? How could we learn, when politicians\u2019 reflex is to make excuses, not to solve the problem?<\/p>\n

The resignation of minister Filipche isn\u2019t a problem at all. At this moment, it would be a symbolic gesture, which would bring catharsis to all those who seek it and disappointment to all those who support him. He\u2019ll resign, and what then?<\/p>\n

Personally, I think that he could offer it based on moral reasons. Because even without waiting for the results of the investigation, it\u2019s obvious that there were serious systemic flaws.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I understand why Prime Minister Zoran Zaev wouldn\u2019t accept his resignation. It\u2019s unproductive to render the whole health department dysfunctional amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Filipche\u2019s resignation is no guarantee that such tragic failures won\u2019t be repeated. How can one ask for guarantee, when the minister himself says: \u201cI cannot dismiss the director until responsibility is determined.\u201d Why? Because he was appointed by a political party.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, it doesn\u2019t even matter if the director had been appointed by this or that party and which leader they are close to. What matters is if they\u2019ve proved capable or incapable. The worst thing is that all those who have proved incapable are protected by the party. That\u2019s the systemic failure. And Venko, the most prominent person of that system, accepted that practice. That\u2019s why, he can thank politics for falling so low, from people saying \u201cListen to Venko\u201d at the beginning of the pandemic to a level where they\u2019re saying \u201cDown with Venko.\u201d<\/p>\n

22 October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woah, the evil will happen again!? Well, has it just occurred to you? The citizens who brought you to power have been working you for four years: Be careful, the evil will happen again.<\/p>\n

And now, citizens should be afraid that the criminal party which stole everything \u2013 starting from the elections and then everything all the way down the line and whose leadership didn\u2019t even apologize for the wrongdoings of the fugitive in Budapest, for the organized attack on the Assembly, for the mass wiretapping, for making us live in fear, for the racketeering, for ruining media outlets, for the fact the state was kidnapped by one party\u2026 What has the ruling SDSM done to show they\u2019re afraid of VMRO returning?<\/p>\n

Am I now to compare SDSM with VMRO?<\/p>\n

Do they still not understand that we no longer have the patience to tolerate someone\u2019s rule just for the interests of the party? We\u2019re tired of it. Resigned. When Zaev used to say \u201clet\u2019s not allow this evil to happen again\u201d after each new published information bomb, we really believed that the evil wouldn\u2019t happen again. The people who didn\u2019t go to the polls now, voted 4 years ago, hoping for change. Now the two largest parties are in decline. At these elections, VMRO-DPMNE got 50,000 votes less than at the municipal elections in 2017. Whereas SDSM lost about 180,000 voters. In fact, the biggest defeat of SDSM is that they\u2019ve killed our hope.<\/p>\n

Zaev should stop wondering why he lost so many votes, even in the places where SDSM traditionally used to win. There isn\u2019t much to philosophize about here. You deny citizens the quality of life; citizens deny you the votes.<\/p>\n

26 November<\/strong><\/p>\n

All right, you\u2019d think, accidents happen. But, the crushing fact is that we never seem to learn from them. The accident itself is shocking. The death toll of 45 passengers is shocking. But what\u2019s also shocking is the realization that the careless behavior of the government, whichever it may be, the incompetent behaviour of the state institutions and the slow judiciary is something that has long since become normal for us. It\u2019s become a commonplace for us to pay the incompetent and corrupt institutions a blood tax.<\/p>\n

And the most crushing thing is that all of this no longer bothers us. Apart from the rare outbursts of rage and sadness, we do nothing. We\u2019ve come to terms with living in depressive lethargy. Making ends meet until the next accident.<\/p>\n

The \u201cBesa Trans\u201d bus crash will be like the one of \u201cDurmo Turs\u201d and will drag on over 100 court hearings by presenting expert evidence, counter-expert evidence and super expert evidence and we\u2019ll continue to make ends meet until the next accident. It\u2019s a good thing that at least we have Facebook and Twitter. We have to do this, we have to do that, we have to do it this way, we have to do it that way\u2026 What do we have to do? The only thing we have to do is to die. Get angry, comment, sleep on it and \u2013 forget it.<\/p>\n

But like all wonders, the mourning for 45 lost lives lasts for three days. And we immediately return to the most important topics \u2013 Zaev\u2019s resignation, Mickoski\u2019s snap elections, who\u2019ll be part of the new parliamentary majority \u2013 will it be Alternativa, will it be Alijansa, will it be Besa\u2026 DUI certainly will be.<\/p>\n

The essential questions such as how many director-level positions there\u2019ll be and which party will get them in order to save the European integration can\u2019t be overpowered even by the great global problems \u2013 the new coronavirus mutation, the expensive electricity, the expensive gas, the lack of chips, the lack of paper, the rising food prices, the inflation growth\u2026<\/p>\n

But we don\u2019t seem to care about that. Our lives don\u2019t depend on those global topics. Our lives are paralyzed in the gap between two majorities and two accidents.<\/p>\n

10 December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s stop fooling ourselves. It\u2019s not about Tsar Samuil, nor is it about Goce Delchev. And it\u2019s even less about the Bulgarians not having rights in Macedonia. Unlike the Macedonians who do have rights in Bulgaria. Those are just excuses so the Bulgarian offensive to destabilize Macedonia could continue.<\/p>\n

The offensive against Macedonia is further intensified by the statements from official Sofia that Albania should be separated in the process and start the EU accession talks. As if we don\u2019t know what destabilizing effect that would have on Macedonia. And they certainly do know.<\/p>\n

These are moves of a classic enemy country. Bulgaria doesn\u2019t hide that it has territorial claims to Macedonia and everything it has failed to accomplish for centuries, it wants to achieve now. And to do that as an EU member state.<\/p>\n

And if the latest poll that 70 percent of Bulgarians justify the veto on Macedonia is really valid, then we and our neighbors are in a cold war. And it\u2019s unlikely that Macedonia will emerge unscathed from that war.<\/p>\n

Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> \u201cThank you, Serbia\u201d in Serbian. (Translator\u2019s Note)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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