VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski submitted an initiative for a Referendum to the State Election Commission (SEC) today. Mickoski expects one hundred signatures to be collected today in the regional offices of the SEC so that it can be delivered to the Parliament after the national holiday. He, as he said, will be among the first signatories in the regional office of the SEC in Karpos, as well as MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition.

Mickoski said the redefined referendum question reads: Are you in favor of terminating the validity of the Law on Ratification of the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation of the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Bulgaria published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Macedonia number 12/2018 of 18.01.2018? If the referendum takes place, he added, the citizens will have the opportunity to say “in favor for” and thus this agreement with Bulgaria ceases to be valid or “against” that is, this agreement with the Republic of Bulgaria remains valid. He called on citizens, regardless of their ethnicity, to support the referendum.

According to him, holding the referendum is an excellent opportunity to organize early parliamentary elections together with it at one cost.

I call on the government, the parliamentary majority to show democratic character, to be encouraged and to confirm their policies in early parliamentary elections that would take place together with the referendum, Mickoski said.