Skopje, 13 March 2025 (MIA) — The last stronghold of the former SDSM and DUI government are some judges and prosecutors, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said Thursday in response to a reporter's question on reforms in the judiciary.

According to PM Mickoski, the majority of judges issue their rulings untainted by politics.

"Let's say 95 percent of judges are people who do their jobs honestly," PM Mickoski said, adding that these judges followed the law and the Constitution.

But some of them, he said, "instead of forgetting about the party privileges and the people who had nominated them, are still faithful servants" of politicians.

The prime minister pointed to an unnamed prosecutor "who decided, instead of being a prosecutor and protector of the rule of law and justice, to be a loyal servant of a former government coalition party that was in power for many years."

Mickoski only hinted at the prosecutor in question.

"I'm sure that you journalists know exactly which name we are talking about and I expect it to be in the headlines," he said, adding: "It was the one who had people sat piggyback, in one photo."

Asked if there was talk about nominating new Judicial Council members, the prime minister said the matter had not been discussed.

He said VMRO-DPMNE had not come to power already having "little notebooks with names written in them, like those in Rechica and on Bihakjka street."

He said his party came to power because "you, the citizens, gave them less than two percent trust."

"The recent election of the Supreme Court's acting president — the name that was chosen — is an additional motive for these Judicial Council members to be dismissed," Mickoski said. mr/