Skopje changes the constitution only if we recognize the “Macedonians” from Razlog, Sandanski and Pirin

Constitutional changes in the Republic of North Macedonia there will not be until at least two conditions are met, the Prime Minister of the country, Hristiyan Mickoski, said from the parliamentary rostrum in response to a parliamentary question about North Macedonia’s path to the EUBTA reported.

"The first condition is that the Macedonian community in Bulgaria receives the rights guaranteed by international law and international human rights conventions", he declared before the RSM parliament. And he added that he does not want the Bulgarian constitution to be changed, but only that it should be done.

And announced the second condition – guarantees "for our Macedonian identity, for my Macedonian language, that there will be no more bilateral vetoes". Mickoski pointed out that the Macedonian citizens, like no other in Europehave made sacrifices and that’s why "they will no longer be humiliated and for subjective reasons have new obstructions from anyone".

"For constitutional changes we need to have 80 votes (in parliament), I sincerely advise your colleagues in this chamber not to support constitutional changes without having at least these two guarantees", Mickoski told the deputies.

In response to a question from the MP from "European front" Skender Redzepi Mickoski made the arrangement that while he is prime minister, no changes will be made to the constitutionif these two conditions were not accepted, and declared himself ready "to go all the way, even if it is his last" .

"When I am not prime minister, maybe you will still be an MP, there will be someone else, you will ask him and he will give you an answer. 80 of your colleagues are needed for the constitutional changes to be passed. I strongly advise the other 119 in this room not to support your position on constitutional changes without being able to get at least these two guarantees", he repeated the ultimatum to Bulgaria.

"I think you should support this position***, you must support the position for the Macedonians from Razlog, from Gorna Jumaya, from Sandanski, from Pirin.*** You should support her because in the 1956 census they were 200 thousand and they were the majority in the Pirin region of Macedonia. They were two thirds of the total population and magically in the 1965 census the number became 9 thousand", the North Macedonian prime minister claimed.

And he continued with accusations against the Bulgarian state.

"From two hundred thousand to 9 thousand and a former Bulgarian president describes this as engineering, of which he is particularly proud. They deprive them of their rights to cultural autonomy, to communicate in their native Macedonian language, to speak in their native Macedonian language, to dance to their Macedonian songs, to respect their Macedonian customs. Now they just want the WMO option "Pirin from Ilin" to be an organization that will represent the rights of the Macedonian community in Bulgaria. Is that too much?", Mickoski said from the rostrum of the parliament.

Addressing his question to Mickoski, Redzepi proposed that all 120 deputies in the country’s parliament accept "resolution for the protection of the Macedonian language" And "to start the changes in the constitution, because the future of the citizens depends on the decision of the parliament and the government".

"We must all together adopt a resolution in which we have a unified position, a statesman’s position, that without these minimum conditions in the future we will not make concessions on any topic"declared Mickoski for his part.

However, according to Mickoski, with the adoption of the negotiating framework in 2022, the then government of North Macedonia did serious damage to European integration.

As a condition for the start of negotiations with the EU, North Macedonia must include the Bulgarian community in the country in the basic law.

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