The Municipality of Karpos this morning sent a reaction to the editorial office of "Free Press" due to yesterday's news "PHOTO: Stevco Jakimovski sat down to draw with kindergarten children, drew a building for them. "

We convey the reaction to you in full:

"We react most strongly to the text published on your portal www.slobodenpecat.mk
under the title "PHOTO: Stevcho Jakimovski sat down to draw with children from kindergarten, im
draw a building ", because it is a fake news, in which the video from the event that the mayor attended was abused to take out of context the moment in which he and the children from the kindergarten Orce Nikolov had a great time.

In your text, in the very title you tend to state that
Mayor Jakimovski "drew a building" for the children, and below in the text
you falsely claim that drawing a building was “his choice of art theme
expression ", in order to give a political connotation to
your post stating that “in the previous term he was accused of
ruthless concreting. " With such a tendentious and unprofessional way of
information, which does not befit a professional medium, you not only
you unjustifiably represent the mayor in an inappropriate light, but also her
manipulate the public.

Dear editor,

The mayor yesterday within the event organized by the ministry for
labor and social policy had a short association with the children from the kindergarten Orce
Nikolov, together they made a drawing on which a kindergarten was painted with
ancillary elements corresponding to such an institution as a swing,
skates, playground, trees and the like. It can be clearly seen from
published photo and video documentation by the municipality of Karpos, but also if
you were not sure, you should have asked before posting the information
explanation from the services in the municipality, as required by the professionals
standards.

Because your text is completely untrue and leaves a completely different picture
the public about the event and the mayor, most kindly please urgently
withdraw from your portal to indicate that the error was unintentional,
that is, without a tendency to knowingly damage the reputation of the mayor and
"child abuse for other interests," reads the reaction.

Free Press Answer: The article will not be deleted

"Free Press" does not consider that it published a fake news and therefore will not delete the headline "PHOTO: Stevco Jakimovski sat down to draw with kindergarten children, drew a building for them. " Publishing the information, the journalist referred to the official Instagram profile of the Municipality of Karpos where photos from the visit of Mayor Jakimovski to the kindergarten "Orce Nikolov" were published. The photos show that Jakimovski drew a building notion who in the digital dictionary of the Macedonian language is explained as follows:"A building is a larger facility where public institutions, institutions, etc. are located." Given that the kindergarten is a solid building and a public institution, it can be freely called a building.

We do not consider the words "in the previous term he was accused of
relentless concreting"We gave the news a political connotation, because these words are based on data from the previous term of Mayor Stevco Jakimovski, who was marked in public and in the media as a period of concreting the Municipality of Karpos.

In October 2019, the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime filed charges against 11 people, including the former mayor of the Municipality of Karpos, Stevco Jakimovski.

According to the Prosecution, the first defendant, in his capacity as mayor, committed several criminal offenses of "abuse of official position and authority" and one criminal offense of "illegal construction". Some of the others are accused of abuse of office, some of negligent work, or illegal construction. The lawsuit is still unresolved.

"Free Press" in the context of the news transmitted some of the reactions on social networks for which as a media we are not responsible for their content.

"Free Press" is a professional media that in its reporting and writing always takes into account the journalistic standards and regulations. In this case as well, "Free Press" announced that Jakimovski on his Facebook profile showed the drawing who did it yesterday in kindergarten. In accordance with the journalistic professional standards, we publish the reaction of the Municipality of Karposh sent to our address.