Criminal law professor Gordan Kalajdziev, who was an outspoken Colored Revolution activist and as such was seriously considered for the position of Special Prosecutor, today acknowledged that the whole purpose of the SP office was to remove the VMRO-DPMNE party from office.
In a statement with the Fokus magazine, Kajaldziev laments the attempt to effectively disband the Special Prosecutor’s Office through an order from Katica Janeva to have all SPO case files given to the OJO office of prosecutors.

Janeva’s mandate was about to expire anyway and a new Special Prosecutor should be elected. I think it was worth a shot and that the parties would’ve agreed on a candidate. Unfortunately, the goal seems to be to bring down the SPO because, it turns out that its only purpose was to topple VMRO-DPMNE from power, Kalajdziev said.

The Colored Revolution was presenting the SPO as a heroic organization that will restore a sense of justice and rule of law in Macedonia. Instead, the organization took a defensive posture toward the SDSM and DUI parties and focused solely on persecuting officials from VMRO-DPMNE, until the conservative party was driven from office and an SDSM – DUI coalition was able to rename Macedonia, which is now widely seen as the only purpose of the “revolution”. Kalajdziev adds that Janeva’s attempt to give her cases to OJO is illegal.

Those are not her mother’s cases. She didn’t bring them with her when she came from Gevgelija, to give them away now. This way, the trials can only get dragged out, and God knows who they end up with eventually. Naturally, the defense lawyers will deny the legitimacy of her decision. The law allows her to give up individual cases, if she has reason to do so, and not to give them all up at once, Kalajdziev added.

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today came out strongly in support of Janeva’s move, indicating that he would like to have her case files, often used to pressure and blackmail the opposition parties, handed over to another politicaly obedient institution such as the OJO. Kalajdziev attended a meeting in the Justice Ministry yesterday, and confirmed that this is the path the Government wants to take, abandoning the obligation to reach agreement with the opposition parties for a permanent and sustainable solution.

Everybody now wants to bury the SPO, to close its doors, and yet everybody is quiet about it. Prosecutors are joking around, the cases will be given up and nobody is concerned with what the outcome will be, Kalajdziev told Fokus.