Skopje, 5 November 2022 (MIA) — I will attend the leaders' meeting on Monday because we have views and are ready to defend them anywhere in the world, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski told a political fair held to promote the work of the party’s local mayors over the past year. According to Mickoski, the political party leaders’ talks should focus on “the real problems of the people, who are hungry.” The solution, he added, was “early parliamentary elections.” “As for constitutional amendments, that topic has been closed,” he said. “Because there will be no constitutional amendments under these circumstances, with no guarantees for our European future protected from future conditions set by Bulgaria.” The main opposition party leader claimed that the government was expecting him to refuse the invitation to discuss European integration so it could call VMRO-DPMNE “an anti-European party.” However, he added, if he attended the meeting, the media would interpret this as "Mickoski being ready for the constitutional amendments." “To all those installations and megaphones of the government that believe in conspiracy theories, let it be clear to them that, I repeat, without clear guarantees for the European future of Macedonia — in which Bulgaria will not be allowed to obstruct this process — without such clear guarantees for the Macedonian identity, the Macedonian language, there will be no constitutional amendments,” Mickoski said. According to him, the leaders' meeting will not solve the nation’s problems. “The people expect us to talk about inflation, the energy crisis, the growing poverty, the closed mines and factories, the low standard. These are the issues we need to urgently find a solution for, instead of [talking about] constitutional amendments or a general topic without any clarifications: ‘integrations’,” Mickoski told the VMRO-DPMNE gathering. mr/