Skopje, 23 October 2025 (MIA) – President Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova on the occasion of the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle Day – October 23 congratulated the citizens urging them to “keep on pursuing a revolutionary path, not with guns, but with a revolutionary mind, revolutionary knowledge and revolutionary reforms.”

“I congratulate you on the Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle Day – October 23 when we proudly remind ourselves of the grandiose historic role of the Macedonian revolutionary organization, on whose spirit and deed the Macedonian statehood is founded,” she said in a greeting.

“I’ve said many times that a life in freedom, peace and democracy in our own national state hadn’t been gifted to us; our predecessors, the Macedonian revolutionaries, had fought for it. It’s no coincidence that the Republic, in Article 36 of the Constitution, guarantees special rights to those who fought for the independence of the Macedonian people and its statehood in the national liberation wars for Macedonia,” noted the President.

The national holiday we celebrate today, she added, is a chance to commemorate the heroes who sacrificed their lives for a free, independent and also for a social and democratic Macedonian state.

“Their ideals were the core of the most progressive ideas in the late 19th century, the European values are founded on them, incorporated in the EU’s constitutive documents, which I have been citing constantly,” said Siljanovska-Davkova.

Celebrating Macedonian Revolutionary Struggle Day – October 23, the President stated, is a reminder of our duty to cherish and resume the holy revolutionary deed by taking care of and protecting the eternal humane principles.

“We have a duty to keep on pursuing their revolutionary path not with guns, but with a revolutionary mind, revolutionary knowledge and revolutionary reforms. We have no other homeland but the one of the Macedonian revolutionaries. It is our duty to protect it and integrate it politically where it has always belonged geographically, historically and culturally – in Europe. Let us keep on loving it, developing it and protecting it and let us also keep on respecting the foundations it was based on – law, justice, ethics, solidarity and equality,” concluded President Siljanovska-Davkova.

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