Skopje, 7 November 2022 (MIA) - On behalf of the Democratic Union, I will suggest first agenda item of the meeting is to send a strong common message to Bulgaria to recognize the Macedonians as a nationality and to exercise all their rights, to associate with others, to form clubs, including being able to form political parties, DS leader Pavle Trajanov stated Monday prior to the leaders’ meeting in the Parliament. “It means associations through which they can nurture their national characteristics, cultural, historical, linguistic and other features that characterize a nation,” Trajanov added. He will seek political consensus from all political parties because so far, as he said, no one from the state and political top officials raise this issue, “neither the president of the state, nor the prime minister, certainly not the minister of foreign affairs.” “No one is requesting Macedonians to get their basic rights like Bulgarians and other ethnic communities in Bulgaria,” Trajanov said, adding that he has no objections to Bulgarians to be included in the Constitution, but only on a reciprocal basis, that is, “only Macedonians should be recognized as a national minority and their rights to self-organization should be recognized.” DS leader Trajanov said that at the meeting he will call for an early elections or formation of a broad coalition government before the elections, then there should be one electoral unit, and all creative staff should be included in the screening process in order to create basic prerequisites for the formal start of negotiations with the EU. He will also raise an issue about the functioning of the system in the country “because there is a huge disappointment among the citizens that the institutions do not function either at the central or local level.”