Skopje, 5 March 2025 (MIA) - Commenting on DUI vice-president Bujar Osmani's statements that political crisis will follow if the Law on the Use of Languages ​​is repealed by the Constitutional Court, and no local elections will be held in such a case, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told reporters on Wednesday that Osmani's statement causes irreparable damage and is a direct interference in the justice system, which is contrary to democratic values. 

The PM noted that Foreign Minister Timcho Mucunski has spoken with international community representatives, who have expressed disappointment with such a statement that undermines the postulate of non-interference in the legal order of a sovereign state. 

"I heard yesterday the statement of Bujar Osmani in his capacity as vice-president of the Democratic Union for Integration. I assume it is coordinated with the DUI leader, because if it is not coordinated, then I assume that the party's leader has scolded his vice-president, because he is causing him irreparable damage with such a statement, on two grounds. The first is direct interference in the justice system of a state, which is contrary to any democracies known to modern humanity, not to mention European democratic values. This morning I spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Timcho Mucunski, who has spoken with everyone, I would say with a large part of international community representatives in the country, as well as outside the country. Some of them have said that they had personally spoken with DUI representatives, and that it had caused great disappointment, because one of the basic postulates of democracy is non-interference in the legal order of a sovereign democratic state," said the PM. 

According to Mickoski, these cannot be the conditions and manner in which discussions are held, as politics is conducted at the table through discussions where the democratic requirements that need to be met during the election process are clear. He also sent a personal message to DUI.

"The man who negotiated and sold out my Macedonian identity and my Macedonian language has the least credibility to speak, because if he does not respect me, then he neither respects his native Albanian language," said the PM. 

As regards statements on early parliamentary elections, Mickoski said that everyone has the right to choose their own way of functioning politically, but stressed that the state also has institutions. 

"Everyone has the right to choose how they will function politically, it is their choice. The state has institutions, there is a government in which the political party DUI functions, it functioned for 20 and a half years, it violated all principles and was an example of double standards. In the last years of its functioning it was an example of well-founded suspicions of crime and corruption, and I think that there is panic and fear that can be seen from the comments of these DUI officials, and the public will witness very soon what is in question," the PM said. 

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