Mickoski: Kocevski got a chance, but we didn't see other than the last government's internal calculations and a bumper of the last government

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski says that Public Prosecutor Ljupco Kocevski was given a chance, but that in the past, he said, he had not seen anything but calculations with prosecutors in the prosecution and the last bumper for the responsibility of the last government.

– We left Kocevski a chance even though we were aware that the public may not have to look at that decision to leave a chance at the mud prosecutor's office and the judiciary. We gave a chance what they can do, whether they can get out of that political matrix in which individuals are, not all. We did not enter how other governments from the first day to calculate with the prosecutor and to do marathon sessions and change laws. We said to leave space, but except for an internal calculation with dissenters within the prosecution, which occurred as a result of background processes such as paid diaries to former special prosecutors, we did not see. Another were excuses – said Mickoski, in response to a parliamentary question on judicial reform and the request for dismissal of prosecutor Kocevski.

According to Mickoski, from a few percent confidence that the citizens in the judiciary and the prosecution had, maybe we are now in negative zero.

As he stated, to show that it will not be « as before » all the arguments have been faced and it has been found that the public prosecutor's responsibility should be initiated, who believes that from some moves that do not resemble correct and internal calculations in the prosecution, absolutely nothing else.

– We have started a procedure as a government, legal deadlines and then it will come to a parliamentary session. There are lawmakers from political parties in the opposition instead of the side of the voice of the people, they defended Kocevski. Given that the confidence in the prosecution is not more than 2-3 percent, then the question is whose voice is represented by defending Kocevski. I personally have a dilemma whether it is a moral or designed political strategy? The main criticism of the EC report is in the part of the rule of law, the implementation of judicial reform, then who protects? What is the message being sent? Then they wonder why citizens' confidence is also falling to the opposition- said Prime Minister Mickoski.

He pointed out that the main criticism of the European Commission's report is precisely in the part of the rule of law, the implementation of reforms in the judiciary and the prosecution and said that there must be an unequivocal fight against crime and corruption.

« The goal is the rule of law, » said Mickoski.