Skopje, 20 September 2023 (MIA) – VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said late Wednesday that it is naive to believe that the amendments to the Criminal Code are just ordinary changes, but that it is a scenario prepared by "the DUI-SDSM coalition and structures and part of the former leadership in VMRO-DPMNE” in order to secure a majority to vote the constitutional amendments according to the Bulgarian dictate, and then decrease the potential of VMRO-DPMNE.

According to him, the party has never been more united, and he told Gruevski not to do what he did not want to be done to him.

“What I had to say related to Nikola Gruevski I said loud and clear, and I have nothing more to add to it. What I can say is that it is naive to believe that this is just an ordinary change in the Criminal Code. This is much more than that. But that it is a scenario prepared by "the DUI-SDSM coalition and structures and part of the former leadership in VMRO-DPMNE” in order to secure a majority to vote the constitutional amendments according to the Bulgarian dictate. After they saw that this would not happen because the vote was clear, those 44 MPs from the coalition, that is all the MPs from the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE in the Parliament, then the second step in which the government and the SDSM, DUI coalition and part of the former leadership of VMRO-DPMNE it was to decrease the potential of VMRO-DPMNE,”  Mickoski said.

According to him, SDSM and DUI would be happiest if VMRO-DPMNE had fifty MPs in the next elections, because now, as he said, "they know that we are very close to a majority in the Parliament."

Regarding the information in the public about a split in the party, Mickoski noted that not only is there no split in VMRO-DPMNE, but that the party has never been more united.

He also added that if there really is a split, it means they are in a better position now and let them dissolve Parliament.

Regarding the Central Committee session, he said that it was a regular meeting and that decisions should be made because, as he said, in six months from now presidential and parliamentary elections will be held.