Skopje, 30 April 2024 (MIA) - VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said Tuesday that they accept the Negotiating Framework, but not the constitutional amendments. 

In a televised debate with SDSM-backed opponent Stevo Penarovski on TV21, she pointed out that the constitutional amendments will not solve the problem, but rather deepen it.

"We accept the Negotiating Framework. We just don't accept the element related to the constitutional amendments and we believe that with a different good-neighborly interpretation, that if the Copenhagen Criteria are in question, there can be a veto, let the commissions discuss, otherwise it cannot be used for a veto. We respect the European fundamental values ​​and principles, and the Negotiating Framework, but we also respect ourselves," said Siljanovska Davkova. 

Asked how the country will continue its path to the EU and how to overcome the problem of stalled amendments to the Constitution, Siljanovska Davkova said that if anyone has stalled the constitutional amendments, it is the incumbent caretaker PM, because he had not put the proposal on amendments to the Constitution up for the first stage of voting.

"He stashed it in a drawer, declaring himself an American president in a way putting the constitutional amendments in his pocket, and he has no right to do that. I am in favor of that, and I said it to those who can propose constitutional amendments, but they did not process it, otherwise it would have been seen that just like the people, the MPs, even from the opposition, some think like me, that there is no need for such constitutional amendments in such way," Siljanovska Davkova said.  

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