Skopje, 11 November 2024 (MIA) – The committee tasked with supervising the work of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Intelligence Agency will hold a session Tuesday in Parliament to discuss an information on the illegal appointment of NSA head, submitted by opposition SDSM MPs.

SDSM MPs dispute the appointment of Bojan Hristovski as NSA head. They accuse the government of not abiding by law provisions, regulating the conditions for the election of an NSA head. 

They allege that Hristovski doesn’t have adequate qualifications and was not approved after a vetting process due to his involved in illegal activities of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK) while it was undergoing reforms. Additionally, they say he holds a forged foreign language certificate. 

PM Hristijan Mickoski insists that the NSA head meets the conditions defined by the law. Speaking to members of the media on October 27, he called on the anti-corruption commission to look into the case following accusations by the opposition that Hristiovski doesn’t meet the conditions to be at the helm of the National Security Agency. 

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