Mickoski announces protests if judges with voted distrust do not resign

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said tonight that protests would take place if, as he pointed out, « corrupt judges who were mistrusted in Parliament did not resign, and those protests would be in the forefront ».

-People will happen to them, people will go out on the street and protest, the people are hungry and thirsty for justice. Imagine you have less confidence in 2 or 3 percent, they dismiss you, and you do not leave, the waters. People will happen to them, I will first stand who will lead the people, I promise that it will happen – said Prime Minister Mickoski tonight in the « only interview » on Channel 5 television.

Prime Minister Mickoski emphasized that he will be discussed, but there will be no such people who have evidence, because, as he said, there can be no justice as now with judges or prosecutors or members of the Judicial Council and the Council of Public Prosecutors who are from party headquarters.

-There are people who have evidence that are or how they are. At the end of the day we all these processes we run, we do not lead to be the same, I have no reason to be the same, only with new people. We have a report from the Assessment Mission that clearly gives guidance on how to move the reforms and implement them. We'll stick to the report, just to change something, because it doesn't go like this if we want to have a state. I want to have a state and my children to grow up in this country and establish families in this country, I will fight for such a state – said Mickoski.

The Assembly voted on Tuesday to distrust the five members of the Judicial Council elected by the Parliament-Vesna Dameva, Pavlina Crvenkovska, Miljazim Mustafa, Tanja Cacharova-Ilievska and Selim Ademi. Behind the initiative for interpellation, submitted on February 7, 67 lawmakers from the ruling majority stood, but the departure of the post of five members of the Judicial Council will have to decide for themselves, and so does the law on the Judicial Council.

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said in a statement to the media yesterday that she expects Dameva, Crvenkovska, Mustafa, Cacharova – Ilievska and Ademi to leave their positions because they have no credibility in those places. « I expect their moral responsibility and to leave the positions they have captured, because they have no credibility to be in those places, » said Mickoski.

European Parliament Rapporteur for Macedonia Thomas Weitz in a written statement to the media has reacted this afternoon to what is said to be « the pressure of the government coalition to resign or be resolved because of their alleged political affiliation ».

-This call by the government is a worrying sign of political interference in the judiciary. The independence of the judicial system is crucial to the rule of law and the separation of power, which are fundamental values ​​on Macedonia's path to the EU, Weitz said in a written statement to the media.

Earlier today, US Ambassador Angela Ageller said they were closely following the procedures in Parliament and statements about the voted interpellations for the five members of the Judicial Council. In response to a journalist question about how to comment on the voted interpellations of the five members of the Judicial Council, Ageller stressed that he could not comment, but, as he said, the most important thing is to follow the process in a clear and transparent manner. – I can't comment. We closely monitor the procedures in the Assembly and statements regarding the voted interpellations for the five members of the Judicial Council. What is most important for each of these cases is to follow in a way that is clear and transparent for all those who observe it – said Ageller.