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1<\/span> Is a traffic violation law worthy of convening a leaders\u2019 meeting?<\/p>\n

We watched yet another drama entitled \u201cLeaders\u2019 Meeting\u201d. I feel these plays are becoming increasingly dull. It seems that opening a new kindergarten wasn\u2019t on Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski\u2019s schedule, so, to fill the day, he convened a leaders\u2019 meeting instead. Honestly, I don\u2019t even know why the party leaders gathered at all.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have a parliamentary crisis. VMRO-DPMNE created a crisis when it was in opposition, blocking a lot of essential laws. Now the government enjoys an absolute majority in Parliament, anything it wants to impose can be imposed without resistance. So really, why do we even have a Parliament at all? So that MPs can claim travel expenses and per diems for turning up to vote on decisions that have already been agreed.<\/p>\n

And the fact that SDSM leader Venko Filipche chose not to attend the leaders\u2019 meeting convened by VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski is a problem for SDSM itself. In principle, it\u2019s always better to be present at the table where decisions are made than not to be. And yes, the leaders\u2019 meeting may be a dull drama, but is it not foolish to voluntarily give up the role of the largest opposition party? At last while you\u2019re still considered a leading role in the play.<\/p>\n

But then again, why would the public concern itself with SDSM\u2019s internal party affairs?<\/p>\n

2<\/span> I don\u2019t want to bother debating the law banning smoking in public spaces either. As with everything else in this country, the law itself isn\u2019t the problem. The problem is the implementation of the law. Even with the current law, it\u2019s not as though punishing people for smoking indoors is forbidden. Besides, we had such a law until 2017, during the previous VMRO-DPMNE government, and people complied with it.<\/p>\n

After that they came up with amendments to the law, followed by enclosed outdoor seating areas, supposedly to prevent the hospitality industry from suffering and to protect the rights of smokers, but in reality enabling a brutal usurpation of public space. It had nothing to do with the human rights of smokers, and even less with protecting the health of non-smokers. It was a classic privatisation of our shared space, by stealing our pavements, pedestrian zones, parks, access to the entrances of the buildings where we live and work\u2026 Supposedly for summer terraces.<\/p>\n

By the way, those makeshift nylon and plastic structures are not only ugly, but unsafe as well. And who knows whether the municipalities make any profit from them at all, how much they charge, and whether they manage to collect it.<\/p>\n

Do we actually listen to ourselves? People, in 2026 we\u2019re still talking about smoking in restaurants and caf\u00e9s! About regular rubbish collection! About speed cameras on streets and motorways! About the treatment of stray dogs! We\u2019re talking about public transport! About filters on chimneys! About ventilation systems in public buildings!<\/p>\n

For God\u2019s sake. We\u2019re debating about toilet paper and soap in schools. Because there is none. None.<\/p>\n

The citizens of the countries to which we move en masse and whose quality of life we envy have no idea that such issues are even up for discussion anywhere in Europe. It\u2019s devastating that we\u2019re discussing civilisational standards that the world we aspire to join put in place at least thirty years ago. And we\u2019re already in the 26th<\/sup> year of the 21st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

3<\/span> At the leaders\u2019 meeting, party leaders debated whether to abolish the caretaker government, which is formed six months before parliamentary elections and was introduced in 2015 to overcome the political crisis and the blockade triggered by the publication of illegally wiretapped conversations during the government of Nikola Gruevski. The agreements were held in Przino, near Skopje, at the residence of the EU ambassador, with the strong support from the then US ambassador.<\/p>\n

Ali Ahmeti from DUI proposed that the strategic partners who had participated in the Przino agreements should also be consulted on the abolition of the caretaker government.<\/p>\n

What a brilliant idea. Amid all difficulties currently straining relations between the US and the EU, they should now also be burdened with our caretaker government. There\u2019s no escaping it. Alongside the status of Greenland, the US and the EU will now be expected to resolve the status of Przino as well.<\/p>\n

And Mickoski\u2019s government, in addition to expressing deep concern over how events may unfold between the allies over Greenland, will appeal for a peaceful resolution of misunderstandings. And he\u2019ll call on the US and the EU to refrain from excessive use of force.<\/p>\n

4<\/span> At the leaders\u2019 meeting, it became clear that politicians from the Albanian parties maintain continuity in politics. Besa leader Bilal Kasami arrived at the meeting in a BMW worth 130,000 euros. He said that it wasn\u2019t his, but merely on loan, as the municipal car was undergoing servicing. Back in the day, Artan Grubi also drove an Audi worth about 100,000 euros, likewise not his own, but allegedly lent to him by a neighbour.<\/p>\n

It turns out politicians have exceptionally generous friends and relatives. Perhaps one day it will be revealed how many public tenders their generosity has cost us.<\/p>\n

Most likely not.<\/p>\n

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

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