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1<\/span> Biljana Ivanovska, a candidate for mayor of the Municipality of Centar supported by \u201cIndependent Together,\u201d was fortunate that the chief of police in Skopje wasn\u2019t as zealous as the chief of police in Demir Hisar, so when two police officers showed up at her home at 8:30 in the evening to deliver a summons from the prosecutor following a criminal complaint, and found no one in, they left. Had the Demir Hisar chief been in charge, he would no doubt have dispatched the Intervention Unit to scour the city for her. If the former president of the Anti-Corruption Commission had been feeling a bit under the weather, he would have called an ambulance for her, just as he did in Demir Hisar, when he attempted to transport the high school principal to the police station on a stretcher for questioning.<\/p>\n

Following Ivanovska\u2019s response, the Prosecutor\u2019s Office announced that the competent public prosecutor contacted her by phone and offered her the option \u201cif she wishes, and if she feels that giving a statement at the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office is some form of pressure, to postpone it until after the elections,\u201d because it concerns a private criminal complaint which the Prosecutor\u2019s Office hasn\u2019t yet established as well-founded.<\/p>\n

And just like that, an urgent case, so urgent the police had to ring Ivanovska\u2019s doorbell at night, became non-urgent, something that can wait until after the elections.<\/p>\n

I believe it\u2019s a coincidence. The prosecutors were terrified of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, who scolds them every day for not being good enough, and began clearing out cases en masse, and it seems the private criminal complaints were next in the queue. Among them was one against Ivanovska, dating back to her time as president of the State Commission for Preventing Corruption (SCPC), and the police chose to deliver it to her on the very same day she announced her candidacy for mayor of the Municipality of Centar, backed by independent citizens.<\/p>\n

It sounds silly, but it works. We\u2019ve seen it before. And we\u2019ve certainly heard it before.<\/p>\n

In Demir Hisar, they even called an ambulance to take the high school principal away on a stretcher, just to retrieve the school seal, so they could employ three party foot soldiers, and you expect them not to dig up an old complaint from an ordinary citizen against an independent candidate in the elections, one that must be served by the police. Especially since the votes of independent citizens are a nuisance to all parties.<\/p>\n

2<\/span> Prime Minister Micoski claims that citizens\u2019 standard of living is on the rise because the growth of salaries is higher than inflation.<\/p>\n

Presenting the inflation rate as yet another of the historic achievement of the VMRO-DPMNE government, Mickoski explained that the 4 to 5 percent inflation is the result of rising prices in transportation and restaurants by as much as 24 or 25 percent and \u201chigher salaries and pensions that have boosted demand and people can afford those prices for services, so the price of services increases as long as people can afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to explain things like this: \u201cIf we have a salary increase of 11, 12, 13 percent on a monthly basis, and inflation, let\u2019s say, averaging around 4 percent, then we have a net increase of 7 percent. What was the situation like a year and half, two years ago? Back then, average inflation was 15,18, 20 percent, while salary growth that was below the inflation rate, \u00a0which means the standard of living was falling, that is in decline, unlike now, when it is on the rise\u201d.<\/p>\n

Which cinema is showing that movie in which salaries grow 11, 12, 13 percent per month? Why doesn\u2019t the Prime Minister tell us, let\u2019s all go together, we\u2019d love to watch some science fiction too. It\u2019s a shame for such beautiful movies to be seen only by him.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like arguing with a waiter in a restaurant when he brings you a bloated bill. He starts a new calculation: You had two beers, three brandies, two bottles of sparkling water, a bottle of wine, twenty kebapchinja, a pork chop, one slice of hard cheese, today\u2019s date, French fries, juice, two coffees and..Ah yes, you\u2019re right, you didn\u2019t order a salad. You\u2019ve saved a fortune. Seven percent.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> DUI announced that \u201cthe citizens of Chair know very well who Izet Mexhiti and his associate Visar Ganiu are,\u201d and that \u201cduring their mandates, the municipality became the gold standard for crime, corruption, and chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Izet Mexhiti served as mayor of Chair for two terms, from 2005 to 2009, and from 2013 to 2017, as a DUI candidate. He was also the vice president of DUI.<\/p>\n

DUI is making accusations that during Mexhiti\u2019s rule, 225 million euros were stolen through illegal constructions and dubious legalisations. So 225 million euros were stolen \u2013 by DUI. And when VREDI accuses Bujar Osmani of spending millions of euros on illegal purchases during the time he was Minister of Health and Minister of Foreign Affairs, it starts to look like they left DUI simply because they weren\u2019t allowed to steal enough.<\/p>\n

The logic behind how DUI and the VREDI Coalition attack each other over the candidacies of until-recently fellow party members Bujar Osmani and Izet Mexhiti is about as sound as the logic behind the inflation and the standard of living. When DUI says that \u201ccitizens will say \u2018no\u2019 to illegal constructions, corruption, and personal interests,\u201d it sounds as if DUI is running a campaign against DUI. And when VREDI says that Chair ranks sixth in terms of the number of illegal buildings and that illegal construction, corruption, and personal interests aren\u2019t exclusive to Chair, it\u2019s like VREDI is running a campaign against VMRO-DPMNE.<\/p>\n

Translated by Nikola Gjelincheski<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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