Strumica, 4 April 2024 (MIA) – Levica’s presidential candidate, Biljana Vankovska, kicked off her presidential campaign under the slogan “Restoring the Nation’s Dignity” with a rally in Strumica on Thursday.

At the rally, Vankovska said she defines herself as a potential president of all citizens, she said she would be a president “of all the poor, the disadvantaged, and the discriminated,” which she said exist among “the Albanians, the Roma, the Serbs, the Vlachs, and everyone else”.

“We are all disadvantaged in terms of a class basis, regardless of the fact that I come from a privileged layer of academia. But this system is unjust… How can I be happy if my fellow citizens are unhappy. How can I be happy if they beg on the streets, how can I be happy when today in front of my campaign headquarters a homeless person stopped me. We are unhappy and thereby we also have to be angry,” Vankovska said and called for a massive turnout on April 24.

In his address, Levica leader Dimitar Apasiev said Levica is the “last ember of Macedonism, which is why its historic task is much greater.”

“They imposed a loser mentality on us, but we have never been a nation of losers. What they present as victory is in fact a defeat, since they lost to the Bulgarian diplomacy, to the Greek diplomacy, there’s no one they haven’t lost to. And by wanting to impose that loser mentality on us, they imposed Yankee vassalage on us, as the primary dogma, and that servile attitude to the foreigners has led us to being an ‘embassocracy’,” Apasiev said.

Levica’s list principal in the fourth electoral district, Sashko Janchev, also addressed the rally, noting that the party will fight against "the greatest threat to the Strumica valley – the Ilovica mine".

Earlier on Thursday, Levica’s presidential candidate, Vankovska, addressed a rally in Radovish.

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