The government of SDSM and DUI needs to divert the attention from life in price shocks and enormous inflation and increased poverty, and that is why two parallel processes are taking place at the moment. One is spreading lies about VMRO-DPMNE and me personally, and the second process is defocusing the public through trials and political persecution as we see through the Talir 2 case, the president of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski said at Friday’s press conference.

His position, as he said, is still that everyone who violates the law should be held accountable, but not through politically motivated processes and instructed and partisan prosecutors and judges.

And I have no doubts that there should be absolute justice, unconditional respect for the laws and the Constitution. But it all has to be through legal procedure. I want to use this opportunity to convey to the public the legal facts about the Talir 2 case, which unfortunately neither the prosecution, nor the partisan and corrupt judiciary and judge took into account, said Mickoski.

Citing these, as he says, legal facts, Mickoski pointed out that the very announcement of this verdict resembled everything but a procedural action. According to him, it resembled a “political process directed by SDSM, DUI, prosecutors and judges.”

He added that the deadline for initiating any proceedings in this case has expired.

VMRO-DPMNE, says Mickoski, is not accused in this case, ie it is not a party in the procedure, and the verdict confiscates the property of VMRO-DPMNE, which, as he emphasized, violates the constitutionally guaranteed right to property, without the representative of the political party being heard in accordance with the provisions of the law on criminal procedure.

In the case we were not heard at all, we had no right to express our opinion and arguments, said Mickoski.

The Criminal Court, he adds, outside its competences annulled the Agreement that VMRO-DPMNE concluded with the legal entity AD Beton Skopje, confiscating only the part that is owned by the party.

At the very least, it is illogical how this agreement is illegal only for VMRO-DPMNE and the property acquired by the party is confiscated, and the partner in that agreement is legal and his property is not confiscated. Another illogicality is that the object of confiscation is exclusively the building owned by the party, and not the land on which the building is built. VMRO-DPMNE had a building known as the “Yellow building” at the location in question, which is not disputed by anyone that it belonged to the party. The question is what about that building? With this verdict, VMRO-DPMNE has been twice illegally damaged, once for the new building and once for the old building, which is indisputable to anyone that it belonged to VMRO-DPMNE, said Mickoski.

The party in this procedure was not accused. But for the private person and his property there is no procedure or decision for confiscation of anything. The court found that BETON was damaged, and the owner of BETON at the last hearing before the verdict was announced, told the court that the agreement concluded by his company with VMRO-DPMNE was profitable for them, says Mickoski.

He announced that they will appeal against all this after receiving the verdict in writing before the Court of Appeals.

We do not expect that anything can change in this partisan and dictatorial prosecution and judiciary, but we will use all legal mechanisms at our disposal, and we will consider the option of opening a procedure before the court in Strasbourg and justice will be proven. We will continue our fight even more motivated, and even more concentrated. The only way to win over poverty, stop inflation, the economy to move forward is the removal of this government, concluded Mickoski.