The Macedonian Parliament today approved taking on a new loan of 179 million EUR from the Chinese Export Import bank in order to complete the Kicevo – Ohrid highway.

Zaev’s Government renegotiated the original contract worth 420 million EUR sharply upwards, after earlier using the project to prosecute VMRO-DPMNE officials alleging that it is corrupt and incompetently planned.

Zaev’s Government officially asks Parliament to approve an additional Chinese loan of 179 million EUR for the Kicevo – Ohrid highway

With this you acknowledge that the route of the highway was not wrong after all, said VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Trajco Dimkov. “The route is the same, the tunnel is the same, you just wasted us two and a half years. You said that the highway is a crime and now you continue building it”, added Trajko Veljanoski.