Skopje, 4 June 2024 (MIA) — DUI's Arbër Ademi said Tuesday that politicians' legitimacy was based on support from voters, which should be prioritized over "begging behind closed doors as losers, crying to be part of the government." He was alluding to the Worth It coalition members currently in negotiations with VMRO-DPMNE to form a new government.

Talking to the press after an event marking Europe Day organized by the European Movement in North Macedonia in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Ademi said DUI was closely following recent political developments. As part of the European Front coalition, he said, DUI was cautioning against potential violations of the Ohrid Framework Agreement and consensus democracy.

"We see tendencies to undermine everything achieved since 2001, when the Framework Agreement was signed. You can see this in the election platforms of the political parties that want to form the government. They have aspirations to eliminate the Badinter [majority]. These are mechanisms to protect against majoritarian democracy," Ademi said, adding that his political party was receiveng requests from intellectuals, members of academia, and activists for differend models of governance and legal order. In Parliament, he added, DUI would use all mechanisms at their disposal as opposition.

According to him, the Worth It coalition was not a legitimate representative of the ethnic Albanian voters. He said Worth It had been defeated and were now "begging" and "crying to be part of the government". He also recalled that Worth It members had said ahead of the elections that they would not be forming a government without adopting the constitutional amendments first – but that now they had changed their tune.

"They say we should wait for the elections in Bulgaria," Ademi said. "We are no longer negotiating with Bulgaria, but with the EU. They say to wait for the EU elections. Then yesterday Mr. Taravari says, 'Let's wait for the US election," which will be in November, and the new administration will come in 2025 and then the US election will be over. 

"I will not be surprised if they say we should then wait for the elections in Germany, France, England, Greece. They have no political power, which was predictable," Ademi said. mr/