Journalist Dragan Pavlovik – Latas, who himself was on the receiving end of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva’s charges, writes that Zoran Zaev’s rule is completely undermined if he loses the ability to use politically driven criminal charges against his opponents and critics. Latas called on Zaev to stop threatening journalists with libel suits if they report on the major scandal that is developing around Katica Janeva, but to come out himself and name the officials in his SDSM party who were involved in extortion together with the disgraced Special Prosecutor. Zaev refused to answer who the two officials named as associates of Janeva are, and they are currently written about using the code-names “Kiki” and “Friki”, although the informed public knows full well who they are. Branko Geroski, one of the journalists who was reporting on this scandal announced that the names will be revealed today.
Zaev tried to present the criminals he has surrounded himself with as naive people. That is ridicilous and insulting for the public. It is not the job of the journalists to name Kiki, Boki, Friki, it is Zaev’s job to say who they are. Instead, Zaev is panicking and threatens to bring the journalists to court. And on top of it all, SDSM prints out a declaration in favor of fighting crime! Fighting crime is their job, not something they should declare as an opinion. They are in their third year in office, they are wealthy as mid sized European companies, they are arrogant sadists who rejoiced in persecuting and tormenting others. No, they are not naive. They are a corrupt Government which is on its way out, Latas writes in his editorial.
The seasoned journalists predicts that, without the ability to distract the public with well publicized arrests, which have ultimately boiled down to re-arresting Mile Janakieski, SDSM will keep disappointing the thousands of honest people who believed the party and joined its Colored revoluton.
These thousands are a shifting mass that is angry at Zaev and Katica Janeva, but they are also angry at themselves. The Special Prosecutor is leaving, Public Prosecutor Joveski is also leaving, and the judges are no longer afraid of them. Their NGOs and media outlets burnt through their credibility and lack money. The chief tools this regime was using are giving way, Latas adds.
His prediction is that Macedonia is heading toward early elections in the spring of 2020, with a technical Government three months before that in which VMRO will hold the Interior Ministry, which by itself will bring down Zaev’s inflated numbers in the Parliament. Improved relations between VMRO and the opposition Albanian parties, Latas adds, also lead toward an electoral defeat for Zaev and a hoped for restauration of the pre-Zaev order of lower taxes, economic growth and stability.
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