The SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE working groups are likely to continue negotiations on the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office tomorrow. If there is progress, the possibility of a new leaders’ meeting between Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski is not excluded. Expectations for a deal are not high if the views of both sides are known.

Mickoski said in an interview with MIA that he had the impression that the government did not want a deal and that the intention was to stall the whole process. According to him, the longer the negotiation process for the Public Prosecutor’s Office will last, the more likely some reminiscences of some past old topics that may not have been favorable to VMRO-DPMNE will remain in the public and thus compete with the Racket case.

The second strategic reason is the compromised judiciary and prosecution that is in Macedonia today and practically everything that SDSM, Zoran Zaev, Minister Deskoska will order, but which will result from those informal meetings that Zoran Zaev’s lawyer team has with state prosecutor Joveski, these are practically doing it, says Mickoski.

Zaev believes that the working groups are not far from reaching an agreement on the law on public prosecution, that more efforts are needed and as he said “to overcome ourselves”.

I believe we can make the effort, we are not really far off, we just have to overcome ourselves especially when the cases here are secured and have their own future. As soon as the working groups give the signal to me and Mr. Mickoski to sit down to agree on this law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Zaev explained.