Skopje, 4 June 2024 (MIA) – Justice Minister Krenar Lloga sent letters to the EU Delegation in North Macedonia, the embassies of the United States, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, the OSCE Mission to Skopje, the Skopje Office of the Council of Europe, the Department of State via the US Embassy in North Macedonia and the European Commission in Brussels to voice his concern following the announcement of the parliamentary majority that it is drafting a set of legislation aimed at dissolving the Judicial Council and the Council of Public Prosecutors, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday. VMRO-DPMNE's response is that the evaluation of the law with Lloga, SDSM and DUI is well-known and it's time for accountability.

In the letters, he says he wants to divert their attention on the possible “intrusion”, prepared by the parliamentary majority in the judicial system. 

“In parallel with the announcement to reform the state bodies and to reorganize the ministries, the ruling majority has announced it is preparing a set of legislation aimed to dissolve the Judicial Council and the Council of Public Prosecutors, the two constitutional and independent categories,” Lloga says among other. 

We, Lloga stresses, voice serious concern that such concentration of power of the three branches in one political party would allow the pre-2017 state of affairs and problems to be copied, which had created a capture state, noted in multiple reports of international organizations. 

“This announcement is rushed and dangerous and we believe that the ruling majority should respect the process of appropriate policy creation, which involves an assessment of the state of affairs and consultation over all coming duties and responsibilities of the Republic of North Macedonia in agreement with the European Union and other international partners,” Lloga concludes in the letters. 

Asked to comment on Lloga's letter to the international community, VMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski told a press conference at the party's headquarters on Tuesday that Krenar Lloga and SDSM and DUI are in opposition. 

"The evaluation of the law in Macedonia with Lloga, with SDS and with DUI is well-known both in Macedonia and in the international community. Krenar Lloga together with SDS and DUI are in opposition. It's time for accountability for all intrusions into laws in the legal and judicial system," said VMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski. bam/nn/

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