There is no progress in negotiations between the ruling coalition and the opposition over the public prosecution law. However, both parties are optimistic that a compromise could be struck if one party aligns its positions to the other.

Although government and opposition working groups have until August 15 to pause negotiations on the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev yesterday called on the opposition to support reforms and encouraged the Public Prosecutor’s Office to continue its fight against crime and corruption, regardless of who will get through the investigation into the “Racket” case.

VMRO-DPMNE opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski, meanwhile, at the working meetings on the public prosecution law accused the that there was a sense of retaliation and attack on his party.

Prime Minister Zaev urged all political parties to support solutions that, he said, complete the reforms, for the ultimate defeat of the “captured state”, the fight against crime and corruption, for a society in which no one will be privileged and pardoned.

The next meeting of the working groups on the public prosecution law should take place after 15 August.