Tag: lustration
Macedonia 29.11.21 | 13:20

Bulgaria wants Macedonia to open its Communist era police files

One of the demands that the Bulgarian would-be coalition partners accepted is that the country demands Macedonia secret police dossiers from the Communist era. Bulgaria is blocking Macedonia from opening its EU accession talks and lists a number of demands aimed at the Macedonian national identity and...

Macedonia 16.01.20 | 15:32

If anyone should be lustrated, it is the people of SDSM, communist-era political prisoner claims

Communist-era political prisoner Shpetim Polozani believes that SDSM’s claims and justifications for abolishing lustration are not logical, as there were collaborators with the secret services among the lustrated persons. There is no reason these persons receive compensation, Polozani said on TV...

Macedonia 13.01.20 | 17:52

Dimovski: VMRO-DPMNE will seriously oppose the attempt to annul lustration

VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group will respond to the call for attendance at a session of the  Committee on Political System and Inter-Community Relations and that it will be present at any time, and that it will seriously oppose the attempt by SDSM to pass the law on annulment of lustration, said...

Macedonia 13.01.20 | 17:40

Kiracovski: DUI also doesn’t want annulment of lustration

Political System Committee Chairman Aleksandar Kiracovski said the DUI and the Democratic Party of Turks joined the VMRO-DPMNE in what he described as obstruction of lustration annulment. He said that ways would still be sought to abolish lustration, as it had done injustice. The Political System Committee...

Macedonia 13.01.20 | 14:26

SDSM left alone in support of the law that would reverse the lustration of Communist era police collaborators

The Macedonian Parliament was unable today to discuss the proposal to reverse the lustration process, which was sent before a Parliament Committee. Committee members from VMRO-DPMNE, which opposes the shocking proposal, but also from DUI and other parties, abstained, leaving SDSM as the sole major proponent...

Macedonia 13.01.20 | 11:01

Bill that reverses the lustration of Communist era police collaborators sent before a Parliament Committee

The leftist SDSM party is pushing its draft law that would reverse the process of lustration through Parliament, and today it will be up for debate in the Political System Committee. SDSM demands “nullification” of the process under which a broadly based committee decided to open the files...

Macedonia 10.01.20 | 15:51

Bosko Buha style – snitches and executioners with severance pay

“… The system of control upon which our society rested was based on one supposing subject – the bearer of a supposed ‘truth’, and that is the snitch personally. The snitch is the one who knows. The snitch becomes the Great Other, the bearer of interpretation and truth. He becomes...

Macedonia 24.12.19 | 21:27

Government wants to nullify the lustration process and give restitution to the collaborators of the Communist regime

The Zaev regime announced it will nullify the lustration process and will even offer restitution to the collaborators of the Communist era security services for the fact that their files were made public and they were restricted from working at the higher levels of the public administration. Macedonia...