Is it the Prime Minister's? Hristijan Mickoski "It will happen to the people" according to his own recipe, it is too early to predict. That will depend, among other things, on the determination of whether they will find and punish those responsible, without protecting anyone, and whether they will create a system in which the terrible tragedy will not be repeated, is the assessment of the political analyst Petar Arsovski just a few days after the accident in which at least 59 young people burned to death at the "Pulse" disco in Kocani.
Mickoski previously warned that the people would "self-organize" protests if the five members of the Judicial Council did not resign. Just one day after the tragedy, citizens protested in Kocani, and in Skopje, students organized a "Common Hour" to pay tribute to the dead. A protest in the capital for tonight was announced by the informal organization "Who's Next".

– Currently we have an outburst of negative energy, that is, anger that happened in Kocani with the demolition of the catering facility that was also the property of the owner of the cabaret and the stoning of the municipal building. But these are protests, relatively speaking, in affect, with a high dose of emotion. A true assessment of whether there is energy for a serious civil movement, for changing the institutions, the model and the system, we will see only next week, not to be vulgar, only after the deceased are buried, because then we will see whether that energy turns into a movement or was just an outburst of affect at the given moment. Whether the people will happen to the prime minister according to his own recipe, it is too early to predict – says Arsovski for “Sloboden Pechat”.

The protest in Kocani it started peacefully, but escalated when citizens poured their revolt on the municipal building by throwing eggs and demanding the mayor. Ljupcho Papazov to come out in front of them. The citizens demolished the disco owner's cafe and overturned containers. A shadow of "the common hour" The students in Skopje, on the other hand, threw away the speeches of the Minister of Education. Vesna Janevska and the rector of UKIM Biljana Angelova, after which the UKIM Student Union apologized and promised that there would be no speeches at the next gathering, scheduled for March 21. The presence and speech of the minister and the rector were interpreted by the public as a hijacking of the gathering and an attempt to silence the students, especially since Janevska quoted a poem from Aco Shopov, which was interpreted as a call to the students to remain silent. The only student who spoke then addressed the gathering, telling them that "we are not here to rebel, but to be united and to pay tribute to the victims." This caused discord among the students, so the faculty student assembly of the Faculty of Philosophy at UKIM voted no confidence in the delegates of the USS UKIM.

"The experiment with the USS is over, UKIM students will self-organize in plenary! What students fought for a decade ago, they never got. Instead of authentic representation of student interests, we got a dependent bureaucratic labyrinth called the USS at UKIM," said the students from the Faculty of Philosophy.

Hundreds of students, meanwhile, gathered today at the campus of the technical faculties in Skopje, from where they expressed their condolences to the victims who died in the fire at the Kocani discotheque "Pulse". Students, alumni and citizens also paid their respects in Bitola, Ohrid, Tetovo, Stip, Kavadarci, Kumanovo...
The dilemma is whether there have already been attempts to stifle the student gatherings and protests announced by the informal organization "Who's Next?"

– If there is any organized attempt to stifle the protests, we will not see it on television, it will happen on the ground, between the leaders of the protests, members of the security services on site and in the field who are trying to stifle them. Of course, the state, the system, does not want protests and of course they are doing everything to prevent protests from happening. But more important is whether they will do their job, whether they will find those responsible, whether they will punish those responsible without protecting anyone and, what is even more important, whether they will create a system in which such a thing will not happen again – says Arsovski.

He reminds that citizens are witnesses that in recent years, starting with "Laskarci", then "Besa-trans", the ship in Ohrid, the modular hospital and now the disco in Kocani, we have been experiencing accidents that are the product of a bad system that does not function, that is, of complete evasion of the system.

– If the government manages to show that it is truly trying to fix the system, it will reduce the energy, if people experience that this is just another political theater, then that energy will explode. There is certainly an attempt to reduce that energy, because if that energy spills out onto the streets, becomes a big, serious tsunami, as is happening in Serbia, the one who is currently in power will pay the biggest political price. But the most important thing is whether the investigation will be impartial and transparent. We currently do not know whether the mayor should be held accountable or not, but we know that they questioned him, we do not know why they decided not to suspect him. The transparency of the investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Interior will depend on whether that energy will subside or culminate, or people will think that there are again people eligible for persecution and people eligible for protection – says Arsovski.

The public is already divided about the protests. Posts are already being shared on social media that "now is not the time for protests, not the time for politics," but also posts that "now is the time for protests because in our country everything is forgotten in three days."