Following an embarrassing moment when the PR head of the SDSM party promoted the wrong candidate for interim Prime Minister, the party did a new promo, this time getting it right.
A week ago Kosta Petrov, the recently appointed SDSM party Vice President and self-styled PR guru, published a video with outgoing Labour and Welfare Minister Mila Carovska. The 30 questions video, produced according to similar videos with Margot Robbie and Boris Johnson, contained the usual soft questions, but ended on an awkward note when Carovska said that she hopes for a woman Prime Minister in the future. This came as SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev was saying that he is considering whether the far left activist Carovska or his loyalists Oliver Spasovski will be appointed as interim Prime Minister over the 100 days leading up to the elections on April 12th. By the time the video aired, it was largely clear that Spasovski will be the nominee, and the 30 questions video looked like an attempt to subvert this decision in favor of Carovska.
Petrov carried on with other soft promotional events with Carovska, such as a cupcake baking event, but today he finally aired a video promoting Spasovski as the next Prime Minister. In it, the wooden Interior Minister is seen shuffling papers at his desk or holding a pretend meeting with his cabinet before channeling the Terminator to say “I’ll be back” – in the same office at the Interior Ministry. Unlike Carovska, who would contain her ambition to see a woman Prime Minister, Spasovski repeatedly made sure to point out that he doesn’t want to challenge Zaev for the position of Prime Minister, and pledged that he “can’t wait to vacate the office” in favor of Zaev after the elections in April – if SDSM win, of course. In an interview early Thursday morning, Zaev pointed out that he, and no-one else, is the party’s candidate for Prime Minister in the coming elections.
Meanwhile, Carovska is also getting a promotion – she will be named Deputy Prime Minister in charge of economic issues. The current holder of this position, businessman Koco Angusev, announced that he is resigning from the Government no matter the outcome of the elections, ostensibly to focus on his business. Besides being involved in numerous corruption allegations, while in office Angusev promoted some of the few business friendly policies, or more precisely, worked to block the leftist wing of the SDSM party from having its way in full. A rare win for the far left – the introduction of progressive income taxation, was overturned recently. But, unlike Angusev, Carovska is a former activists in far left NGO groups, and in the 30 questions interview she said that her big regret is that she didn’t get to push through a new law on labour relations that would make it more difficult to fire employees. It’s unlikely that she will be able to do so in the caretaker Government, but her promotion could be a sign of things to come in SDSM.
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