Hristijan Mickoski, leader of the main opposition right-wing VMRO-DPMNE party. [Shutterstock]
Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski on Thursday repeated his claim that the “Macedonian question” remains unresolved, suggesting it will eventually be addressed by global powers.
“The Macedonian question is not closed,” Mickoski said at an event in Skopje. “I am convinced that, with strong arguments, we will restore what has been lost not only in recent years, but in decades and centuries past.”
Mickoski leads the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party and often refers to the country as “Macedonia,” in defiance of the 2018 Prespa Agreement with Greece, which renamed the country North Macedonia to resolve a long-standing dispute.
He made similar remarks in January while speaking to members of the diaspora in New Jersey. Nationalist groups and descendants of Slavic political refugees from Greece continue to refer to northern Greece as “Aegean Macedonia” or “White Sea Macedonia.”