VIDEO INTERVIEW | Ivan Stoiljkovic: The region "lacks" more ethnic destabilization from DUI
In the new situation, any destabilization of political Macedonia will be severely sanctioned by the international community. All this organized by the opposition DUI, which is connected with attempts to inflame inter-ethnic relations in the country, has a single goal, which is to return that party to power at any cost. Without exaggeration, my conclusion is that they are crying for power, they are crying for protection that would bring them the eventual power to which they would return. From that point of view, all that they are organizing is pure political folklore. The region "lacks" more ethnic destabilization from DUI, stressed the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government and the Minister of Inter-Community Relations Ivan Stoiljkovic during his guest appearance on the morning show of "Sloboden Pechat".
- When you want to do something wrong in your work in order to avoid legal norms, you will invent some stories that will justify you. It was the same with many other things in the past, and now it is the same with the balancer. The balancer was a tool for uncritical employment of the members of a political party, i.e. DUI. This can be explained in the simplest way through the functioning of the relevant ministry that I manage. In the Ministry, there is systematization for 2.700 employments. That is a serious number even for ministries dealing with security, not for the Ministry of Community Relations and Political System. It's simply unbelievable how someone could imagine making such a systematization, where at the same time a bunch of DUI members who are distributed among state institutions passed there uncritically - Stoiljkovic pointed out.
Regarding the abolition of the balancer, Minister Stoiljkovic says that that tool has been exhausted because it violated several constitutional provisions. According to the minister, a new Law on Fair Representation is coming in its place, which will correct the situation.
– We cancel the balancer and complain why it was canceled. It was done precisely because of the unprofessionalism of the administration, which was unable to function. And when the administration cannot function, neither can the state, and here things are quite clear. And whether and how the problem of adequate and fair representation will be resolved remains to be determined by the new legal solution - Stoiljkovic pointed out.
In relation to what will be the key foreign policy directions of the government that it will try to focus on in the following period, which refer to the constitutional amendments, the dispute with Bulgaria, etc., Stoiljkovic stressed that the Government remains committed to solving of all external and internal political problems.
- Many are scaring the citizens about the future regarding our European integration. One thing is clear that we will do our homework and fight for what is the program with which this coalition came to power. And that is that this kind of agreement concluded with Bulgaria "revealed" the French proposal is unacceptable for the new political leadership of the country and as such there must be an appropriate story that could open doors for solving the open problem - says Stoiljkovic and adds that it has never been the problem was the inclusion of the Bulgarians in the Constitution, but the problem has always been in Sofia, which has never recognized the Macedonian people as a nation, as well as the Macedonian language.
You can watch more of the interview with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Inter-Community Relations, Ivan Stoiljkovic, in the video above.