Speaker: Motion on inquiry committee to probe Tetovo hospital fire ‘not in line with Constitution’
Skopje, 23 September 2021 (MIA) – The motion submitted in Parliament by VMRO-DPMNE MPs requiring the establishment of an inquiry committee to investigate the fire that burned down a modular hospital in Tetovo, killing 14 people, is not in line with an amendment of the Constitution, according to Speaker Talat Xhaferi.
“It is being sent back to you for being incomplete,” reads the Speaker’s response to the VMRO-DPMNE’s motion.
It should be regulated within 15 days, it adds.
Earlier, VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Miloshoski said he learned unofficially that the parliament majority would dismiss the motion on the establishment of an inquiry committee.
“With this move, the parliamentary majority doesn’t want investigation into the case and it doesn’t want to identify who should be held politically and criminally responsible for the tragedy that claimed 14 lives. We believe Mr. Zoran Zaev is still making tactics to protect Minister Filipche and the SDSM-DUI parliamentary majority to protect the authorities in the Municipality of Tetovi and the Tetovo Hospital,” Miloshoski told a news conference.
On Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group announced it was due to send to the Parliament Speaker a motion on the formation of an inquiry committee tasked with establishing facts and identifying political responsibility of the relevant authorities for the Tetovo hospital fire.