Skopje, 12 June 2024 (MIA) – An official list of the members of the new government will be sent to the Parliament on June 18 and VMRO-DPMNE on June 16 will hold sessions of the executive and central committees to conclude the list of the new members of the government from the Your Macedonia coalition, Prime Minister-designate Hristijan Mickoski said Wednesday.

He said he will present the nominations at the sessions of the executive and central committees of VMRO-DPMNE this coming Sunday. “I expect the central and executive committees to voice their stance and if it is positive, we will reveal the names. The official list [of nominations of ministers] alongside the work program will be sent on June 18 to the Macedonian assembly,” Mickoski told reporters ahead of the ZELS General Assembly. 

He confirmed that the new government will be comprised of representatives of the coalitions fronted by VMRO-DPMNE and Worth It and the ZNAM movement, noting that the opposition will include the European Front coalition, the SDSM-led European Future coalition and Levica.

“This fulfils the second promise we made in the elections. The first one was to reorganize the government, the second one was DUI in opposition and the third promise is an investment worth 400-450 million euros in the production of energy from renewable sources, due to be promoted to the Macedonian public on June 25,” said Mickoski. 

He said he sought support from everyone for the changes to the law to reorganize the government and the state bodies and had even talked with SDSM.

“That’s right, DUI members voted in favor, but also members from the European Front coalition, lawmakers who are part of the Turkish Democratic Party, the Democratic Party of the Albanians, and other lawmakers that aren’t DUI members. We’d expected lawmakers from the SDSM-led coalition and Levica to vote, too,” stated the PM-designate. 

As part of the future government, Mickoski noted, there no longer will be economic directors in the health institutions, there will be one clinical complex, the post of deputy director will be abolished, the number of steering board members will be cut by 20 percent, the number of MPs will be decreased from 120 to 90.

“Many of these promises will be met in the first 100 days of the government,” he told reporters. 

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