Filipce: Assembly Turmoil Was Staged to Cover Up Mickoski’s Failures

The leader of SDSM, Venko Filipce, stated that Monday’s clashes in the Assembly were a staged incident aimed at covering up the government’s complete failure and the lack of concrete achievements by Hristijan Mickoski.

“On Monday, he provoked a state of anarchy to hide his incompetence. The reality is that the Government has not recorded any results in any governance area and is now trying to build a justification for early elections. After declaring there would be none, he now needs an alibi at all costs,” Filipce emphasized.

According to him, faced with economic failure, rising prices, and the decline of living standards, Mickoski, instead of offering solutions, prefers to insult and threaten opposition lawmakers.

“Having no results and no way out, Mickoski resorts to insults and intimidation toward MPs in the chamber. He has called citizens the dregs of society, rodents, mediocrities, mollusks; he has chosen a host of derogatory epithets in the past, and now he has started verbally attacking lawmakers. In fact, these insults say more about his character than about anyone else. Is this a person to be called a university professor? Is this a prime minister, the head of the executive?” Filipce asked.

As for Mickoski’s apology, the SDSM leader described it as a staged act without any sense of real responsibility.

“He simply fabricated an illusion, offering an apology in an empty chamber after opposition MPs had withdrawn… so he staged a political show. A shameful, forced ‘apology’. However, this cannot erase his previous insults and behavior,” Filipce concluded.