LSDM says the move by some of its members to ZNAM is not a political loss. According to the party, their departure clears its ranks of people who acted against its interests.
In its statement, LSDM described Maksim Dimitrievski’s ZNAM as a political instrument of Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. The party claims that some of its former members worked for money to obstruct the fight against the mafia and, after they were found out, hastily joined ZNAM, which it calls a Mickoski-sponsored association of Makso Dimitrievski.
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According to LSDM, ZNAM has lost its political clout. The party cited Mickoski’s polls and claimed that MPs, councillors and entire groups of people left ZNAM after it became clear, in its view, that the party was under the prime minister’s control.
The Social Democrats also drew a historical comparison over their former members’ move to ZNAM: in their view, doing so today is like joining the Chetniks in 1945. They accuse these individuals of putting small financial gains ahead of Macedonia and say that, by making this choice, they have marked themselves for life.
LSDM linked the development to its allegations of crime and corruption. It mentioned the Alta Bank case, suspicions of money laundering and other matters it wants the relevant institutions to investigate.
The party also referred to an announcement it attributed to the United States of America concerning the fight against transnational criminal networks in the Western Balkans. It claims that Maksim Dimitrievski played a role in the process of bringing Alta Bank to the country, along with Prime Minister Mickoski and the director of Serbia’s Security Intelligence Agency (BIA).
Referring to work on the case involving five tons of drugs, LSDM claims that the same group is moving to ZNAM. In this context, it also raised allegations concerning a tender at the Post Office, at a time when employees had no money for wages, as well as the sale of a plot of land to Lidl and a gain of hundreds of thousands of euros overnight.
According to LSDM, it is better for these individuals to leave and make their position clear than to remain in the party’s structures while working against it from within.
In closing, the Social Democrats accused ZNAM of presenting people who, they say, left LSDM for personal gain as a political boost. They said citizens and individuals are joining LSDM and the Front for Truth and Justice in the fight against the ruling group led by Mickoski, while ZNAM boasts about newly paid recruits. LSDM described ZNAM as a satellite party and ZNAM 2.0 as Mickoski’s tool.
