Skopje, 28 March 2024 (MIA) – Levica-backed presidential candidate Biljana Vankovska said in an interview with Kanal 5 TV that the country should not join the current EU, adding that the current EU has caused the country so much harm, not the Union directly, but it has made the country do the harm to itself. 

According to Vankovska, even if the Constitution gets changed, the country won't get accepted to the EU in the current state. First, she noted, let's learn that we have our own national interests and not act like we are a colony.

"We must protect ourselves, we must know who we are, what we want for ourselves and our national interests. Someone keeps delivering things that have nothing to do with the Copenhagen criteria and constantly asks for more. We are the special case in the EU," said Vankovska, adding that even if we join the EU, we must join it with our eyes wide open, instead of eyes wide shut.

She said the entire Constitution is problematic, not only because of the Framework Agreement, adding that topics considered taboo must be discussed. According to Vankovska, among other things, the Framework Agreement is neither international nor legally binding.

"We cannot live with fear and threat, violence is not the solution to any problem. I would like to convince the Macedonians that this is also a nice place to live in, convince them not to move out," Vankovska pointed out. 

According to her, the agreement with Bulgaria should be immediately terminated because "it is not bound by the French proposal, but metastasized from the Friendship Treaty into a request to change the Constitution". 

On the Prespa Agreement, Vankovska says that "we have taken it upon ourselves to give legal protection to an agreement that nullifies us as a people, as an identity, as a nation". 

Levica's presidential candidate, Vankovska, is also against NATO membership and if elected president she intends to start a formal procedure for exiting the Alliance.

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