VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament are preparing for a second night of filibustering in the Parliament, as the SDSM led majority is trying to adopt a law that would give a huge windfall to the Makpetrol oil company.

The Zaev regime reached a settlement with Makpetrol in the decade and a half long dispute with Makpetrol over the ownership of Macedonia’s only international GAMA gas pipeline, linking the country to Bulgaria and providing Russian gas. Zaev intends to pay Makpetrol, a company whose owner Andreja Josifovski has supported Zaev’s SDSM party through his Telma TV station, 33 million EUR for half of the pipeline. VMRO insists that both Makpetrol’s share of the pipeline and its price are greatly overestimated.

We fight for Macedonia and its citizens, any place and any time. We are in the Parliament where we will filibuster until late in the night against this expensive present for Makpetrol, VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski said.

VMRO members of Parliament prevented the vote yesterday evening by holding long speeches and disrupting the work of the legislative body with chants and shouting.