Go to the polls, because without you there is no victory, no changes, no steps towards the EU, said presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova at Thursday’s rally in Vinica.

We have heard from Hahn these days that it is likely that preparatory talks will begin on the start of negotiations with the EU. Last year this time, we heard that once the Prespa Agreement is over and the name issue is settled, it will mean getting a date in June. June is close. I am sure that we will not get the start of negotiations. Not that I do not want that to happen. The EU itself has domestic tasks and problems, after Brexit, now analysis of meeting the criteria for the start of negotiations will come to the agenda. The only change that this government has made is the painful name change. And yet they convince us that the name has nothing to do with identity, but we who are dealing with constitutional law know that the name is the largest identical symbol. From birth to today we all lived with the name. The Macedonian nation was founded in the 19th century. The name has chosen us, said Siljanovska Davkova.

Soon, when we will change our documents, we will have to lie that we were born in North Macedonia, and not in Macedonia. We are just looking for what is brought under the right to self-determination, and this includes the right to name, constitution, national anthem, added Siljanovska Davkova.

Say, forget, deny, is the philosophy of the current government. We go with another philosophy, we say, we fulfill. The EU is based on values and principles, including the moral principle.

If I am elected, I give you my word that what I have written and promised I will deliver even more than what I have promised. One of the first measures is to give up presidential privileges.