Alternative raises hands from the health department?

Bekim Sali, Afrim Gashi / Photo: SP. archive / Collage: Free Press.

After the negotiations between SDSM and the Alliance for Albanians are over, we will discuss staying or leaving the government coalition. We are in favor of a compromise regarding the allocation of portfolios, said Gashi after the meeting of the narrow party leadership.

After stipulations that they will leave the Government if they lose the health sector, Alternativa is now ready to compromise and President Afrim Gashi is waiting for a call from Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski about the agreement for the entry of the Alliance for Albanians into the Government. The SDSM and Alliance teams, on the other hand, are expected to negotiate positions in the second and third echelons this afternoon, so they will return to the third ministry from the rotation of departments between SDSM and DUI, after it is certain that they will receive the health and justice departments.

- After the negotiations between the SDSM and the Alliance for the Albanians are over, we will discuss staying or leaving the government coalition. We are in favor of a compromise regarding the allocation of portfolios - said Gashi after the meeting of the narrow party leadership.

He emphasizes that the party authorities will decide to stay or leave the Government. If Alliance is a government partner and Alternativa remains, according to Gashi, there are ways and channels for communication and cooperation, because Alternativa is a cooperative party.

According to Gashi, whether they will stay or leave the government will be decided by the agreement between SDSM and Alliance.

- If an agreement is reached between them, we will look at whether it is tampered with and whether it affects our agreement to enter the Government - says Gashi.

He says that Alternativa currently has no red lines for the coalition partners and that he is ready to compromise on giving up some ministerial positions.

Senior officials from Alternativa brief for "Sloboden Pechat" that the resignation of the health department will not be the red line for them to leave the Government. The explanation is that if the agreement between Alliance and SDSM to enter the Government is not humiliating for Alternative, then there is no reason for them to leave "Ilindenska". According to them, if the government partners SDSM and DUI give one department each, then Alternativa should also give way to consolidate the government majority, and that would be a fair position. They say that there is no point in leaving the government a year before elections and remind that the suggestions of the foreigners are that a stable government and an increase in the majority are needed, especially due to the constitutional changes. One of the main arguments to remain in the Government is that Alternative should not be the reason for the erosion of the parliamentary majority in the context of the "fires" from DUI and some of the smaller government partners. Unofficially, the concession of Alternativa is interpreted that Gashi does not have the support of either the MPs or the ministers because of the health department to leave the Government.

The Alliance and SDSM teams should meet to agree on the deputy ministerial positions, managers, state secretaries and directorships. According to an official from the SDSM, during the distribution of the functions from the second and third echelon, apart from the wishes and the offered staff, the ethnic representation in the institutions will have to be observed, that is, apart from the Government, care must be taken that it is respected in the institutions as well.

As we have already announced, the Alliance demands that all positions from ministers to directors be closed in a package and that it be known by Monday whether there will be an agreement on expanding the government majority.

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