VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski announced that the first step toward bringing down the Zaev Government will be a vote of no confidence in Deputy Prime Minister Nikola Dimitrov, for his total failure to advance the EU accession process.

These are the worst 100 days any Government has had so far. In 100 days we had the EU veto, we entered into a recession, we have a failed bank in a scandal worth 200 million EUR, electricity price hikes, and worst of all, 1,400 of our fellow citizens lost their lives due to the pandemic and the acute incompetence of the healthcare system. The Government demands to be given a respite for 100 days. But this is not a new Government. It’s the same Government that took four years of our lives. Zaev’s lies that he will secure a safe, European future for us have failed. He is gambling “all in” with our lives and losing. This Government has no legitimacy. The first step toward bringing it down will be a vote of no confidence in Nikola Dimitrov in the Parliament. We will have them answer all the questions that the public is asking, Mickoski said.

During his statement, Mickoski especially blamed Zaev for his policy on Bulgaria.

He is willing to put our identity on the line. We learn from the press what he is offering to the Bulgarian side, a new memorandum with humiliating conditions. Zaev allowed open interference in our internal affairs as he acknowledges that the Bulgarian Prime Minister was speaking for us, as for his own country. We don’t know what exactly Zaev is promising as the opposition is shut out from the entire process, Mickoski said.