Skopje, 6 December 2023 (MIA) – As we are headed towards a caretaker government, which should assume power on January 28, I can’t see room for a political climate in which the constitutional amendments will be adopted with a two-third majority. Not only the issue with the Bulgarians, but generally any issue, said President Stevo Pendarovski in a statement to the media Wednesday.

The President recalled that a year and a half ago he said the realistic, political chances for the constitutional amendments to be adopted are minimal, knowing, he said, “the publicly declared positions of the opposition which has entered this process without any arguments”.

“They called me a Eurosceptic and some even said that I had given up on the European path. I am only stating the reality, as I see it, as the Macedonian citizens see it,” said Pendarovski.

According to the President, as the country is headed towards elections and a caretaker government, it will be increasingly difficult for the government and the opposition to reach a political consensus, regardless of the fact they will both be a part of the caretaker government.

“We will wait for the next government, the next parliament, which will have to take this question into account very seriously. And it will be interesting to see then, if the government changes, how the current opposition and possible future government, will react when they have to ask the current government, possible future opposition, to secure a two-third vote,” said Pendarovski.

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