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1<\/span> The deputy director of \u201cMacedonia Road,\u201d Sasho Drango, proudly posed for a photo with a dead bear, and the case will be taken up by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Why should the Prosecutor\u2019s Office get involved? The Anti-Corruption Commission is responsible for the personnel appointed by the ruling party. Naturally, that institution, renowned for its credibility, will rule in favour of the director and confirm that the bear died in a traffic accident. It woke up from its winter slumber and hit the road, it was on its way to Bitola for a stroll along Shirok Sokak, and the deputy director, diligently fulfilling his work duties, happened to be conducting road surveillance with a rifle and binoculars when he found the run-over bear.<\/p>\n

The Animal Protection Association \u201cAnima Mundi\u201d is calling for the deputy director of the public enterprise to face prosecution. He claims that the bear had died in a traffic accident on the Bitola-Resen road, he stumbled upon \u201cthe scene as part of his work duties, and together with employees of the public enterprise moved the bear off the road before taking a photo with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnime Mundi\u201d points out that no traffic accident involving a bear has been recorded in any bulletin of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and that no one has reported a killed bear, which is mandatory according to two laws \u2013 The Game and Hunting Act and the Animal Protection and Welfare Act.<\/p>\n

Still, something about this story doesn\u2019t quite add up. If the deputy director of the public enterprise found the dead bear, why did he take a photo with it? Drango also happens to be the president of the Union of VMRO-DPMNE Veterans in Demir Hisar. It\u2019s truly heroic to find a dead bear on the road, drag it into the forest, and pose with it, rifle in hand. He didn\u2019t stop at just taking a photo but went on to post an entire gallery of himself posing with the bear from every angle possible. Behold the mighty VMRO hero.<\/p>\n

2<\/span> In a country where public shame, especially in political life, has long ceased to exist, any excuse holds water.<\/p>\n

You might wonder, doesn\u2019t the ruling party have other candidates to find a suitable replacement for some deputy director of a public enterprise? Really, what\u2019s the big deal? They\u2019ll give him a suspended sentence and close the case. He won\u2019t be able to be a director, but they\u2019ll find him another job. It\u2019s not the end of the world.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s never the case. The party finds it more important to defend its own staff than to defend the rule of law. And the guy posing with the bear is just one of hundreds, if not thousands, who act like protected bears themselves, simply because the party appointed them. Check out my power. I can kill a bear, pose with it, and post the photos online. You can\u2019t touch me.<\/p>\n

This case is similar to the one when DUI ministers were caught playing basketball and football in the office of the Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi, and Bujar Osmani said that that footage shouldn\u2019t have been made public. He didn\u2019t say they shouldn\u2019t have played football in a government office. Or take the time when Dime Spasov, as Minister of Labour and Social Affairs under Nikola Gruevski\u2019s Government, crashed into several cars while running away from paparazzi to avoid being seen with a girl, and the party\u2019s Communications Centre fed a story to the pro-government television stations that he was being chased by criminal gangs from Serava.<\/p>\n

In a normal situation, people feel ashamed of their mistakes. Back here, people brag with them.<\/p>\n

If the personnel appointed by the ruling party enjoy killing bears in forests that much, why not change the law? They\u2019ve got the majority in Parliament. That way, killing bears will be \u201ceverything\u2019s according to the law, boss.\u201d That\u2019s much more honourable than justifying every violation of the law in a way that\u2019s an insult to the intelligence of anyone with even a shred of common sense.<\/p>\n

The government under VMRO-DPMNE and \u201cVLEN\u201d can change as many laws as it wants, appoint its own directors, replace judges, prosecutors, create thousands of new jobs, launch new ski lifts, renovated kindergartens, and sports halls, but none of it will function properly until the party leaders stop their party members from running wild.<\/p>\n

This country will be undone by the relentless partisanship and the impunity that arises from having no shame. It\u2019s terrible that our young people are leaving. But what\u2019s more terrible than the absence of young people is the absence of shame.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear friends, Happy New 2025 and Merry Christmas. Wishing you good health and happiness.<\/p>\n

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Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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