Skopje, 15 April 2026 (MIA) - We must have equal conditions for everyone in the country regardless of if someone was or is a high-ranking official. There should be no dilemmas about this, at least while this Government is in power and while I am heading it, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski told journalists Wednesday when asked to respond to opposition party SDSM’s statements that former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski should be held responsible.

“But what is concerning is the fact that the opposition has still not learned its lesson and is living in its own parallel world. For example, you can never hear them calling for Vasko Kovachevski to come back and face justice,” Mickoski said.

The Prime Minister said he expects the opposition to be critical to those within its ranks too, adding that if high-ranking officials from SDSM’s previous Government are a part of certain criminal investigations he expects the opposition party to hold press conferences and call them to account.

“I expect this same opposition to behave just as critically as it does now, because I have a feeling that soon high-ranking officials from the previous SDSM Government – former prime ministers, their close family members, and so on – will be subject to certain investigations. This is only a feeling, I am not saying I have information, just a feeling. I expect that when this happens, they will also hold press conferences like these, and at that point they will not claim it is political persecution, but rather call on those individuals to answer before the authorities and prove their innocence,” Mickoski said.

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