Mevlan Ademi, a representative of the Student Movement, spoke about the meeting held with Minister Shasivari. He said the current minister’s proposal was an improvement on the one previously put forward by Minister Fillkov, but that their disagreement primarily concerned the proposed approach to implementing it.
Ademi stressed that repeating the step their predecessors had intended to take, along with the anticipated legal violations, would be harmful to Albanians at this point. He said they had explained this to Mr. Shasivari. He added that the proposal violated existing law and the constitution. He made the comments on the program “Shenja.”
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Regarding the two subjects that would have to be taken in Macedonian, Ademi explained that they had been given a justification, as these subjects stem from the judicial system.
He emphasized that the Macedonian language was not an obstacle for them, but said he was convinced that the time had come for court hearings to be held in Albanian, as provided for by law.
Ademi said he could not accept Albanian students being assessed through tests in a language other than the one in which they had been educated.
He illustrated his position by saying he would agree to take the exam in Macedonian only if a Macedonian student, who had likewise studied in their own language, took the exam in Albanian. Such a demand, he said, would sound strange and unfounded. Ademi argued that two peoples live in the country, but one is treated as an elite, while they remain second-class citizens in the Macedonia they consider their own. He said he could not tolerate this.
He asked whether the constitution applied to him only when he had to pay taxes, fees, fines or electricity bills. When it came to his rights, he stressed, it became a problem, and he had to ask the international community once again.
Ademi explained that, when applying to sit the exam, a student would need one or two years to perfect their Macedonian before taking it. Rather than having the exam held in Albanian and learning Macedonian gradually through work and professional development, since they already know the language, he said it was unacceptable for his knowledge to be assessed through a foreign language.
