Skopje, 8 April 2024 (MIA) - European Front’s presidential candidate Bujar Osmani stressed on Monday that the constitutional amendments are a precondition for one of two visions – a multiethnic European country with equal opportunities for all or an isolated country with ethnic tensions.

“This is a choice between two visions, concepts – a vision of a multiethnic European country that offers equal opportunities and is economically developed, and the alternative option is isolation from the world, ethnic tensions, and a regression in terms of the economic standard. These are the two visions being offered to the citizens which is why I am saying that we are on a crossroads. And there are no vacuums in politics, there is no empty space, the constitutional amendments are one of the preconditions for us to choose a vision. The constitutional amendments must happen this year so that we are able to open chapters and become an EU member state by 2030,” Osmani said at a panel discussion on “Equality, Consensuality and Social Cohesion”.

Anyone who doesn’t support the European option, according to Osmani, even by not voting, supports the option of isolation.

“And with that you support becoming the appendix in a very difficult region, which no world leaders will visit, which will have no investments since no one invests in an unpredictable country. This will all happen if the announcements come true and endanger the Prespa Agreement, the Treaty of Friendship [with Bulgaria] and the Ohrid Framework Agreement. I have a clear vision of what that country will look like – isolated, tense, a country in which we will choke in our isolation and implode in terms of values due to the lack of perspective. The alternative is the ‘European Front’ of nine political parties from all ethnic communities that are offering coexistence, harmony, future, prosperity for the citizens and membership in the European Union,” Osmani said.

Osmani stressed that the Prespa Agreement, the Treaty of Friendship and Good-Neighborliness with Bulgaria and the Ohrid Framework Agreement, as well as a vetting of all public office holders through an international board, are the four pillars he would present during the creation of the government. 

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