Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday that the Constitutional Court should act in accordance with the decision of the Parliamentary Legislative Committee, which concluded that there is no need to interpret Article 11 of the Law on Pardoning because of its non-existence.

This shows that there was no Article 11 back then, to which the then President Ivanov refer to grant the pardon. This only confirms once again that the pardon itself was not legally granted. After that it was not legally annulled. The non-existence of Article 11 and Article 11a of 2009 is a clear position of the legislature, which is the Parliament, that there is no right for pardon and cancellation and adoption, Zaev said, answering a journalist’s question after inspecting the construction works on the sports hall at the primary school “Joakim Krcovski” in the village of Volkovo.

This, Zaev said, is a proof that we should all fight crime and corruption, everyone who made a mistake to be held accountable and everyone who is innocent to receive justice.

The Parliamentary Legislative Committee at Wednesday’s session concluded that there is no need to give an authentic interpretation to the non-existent Article 11 of the Law on Pardoning passed in 1993.

Earlier that morning, at the proposal of judge Osman Kadriu, the Constitutional Court decided by majority of votes to postpone the decision on the amendments to the Law on Pardoning. It considered it was better to postpone this point, as they were informed that there would be a debate in the Parliament on the authentic interpretation of Article 11 of this law.