According to her, the Government had enough time to enter talks on a new collective contract, but failed to do so.

“You had two years to negotiate or renegotiate the collective agreement. If you had truly wanted a better agreement, it would have been signed immediately after the previous one expired,” the LSDM lawmaker said.

Petrovska also stressed that the minister had previously made baseless accusations against the trade unions and had tried to diminish their actions.

“He thought that by forming a union, through his closest associate, he would strike back at the trade unions. That might have worked when he was part of Nikola Gruevski’s team, but today it is 2026 and the rights of workers and trade unions are at a much higher level,” Petrovska said.

She added that the proposed budget rebalancing proves that the Ministry has not allocated sufficient funds even to meet the obligations arising from the existing collective agreement./Telegrafi/

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This announcement was made today by SDSM leader Venko Filipce.

Asked directly about the issue, Filipce said his answer was just as direct: “Regarding the specific question, I will answer specifically: the party bodies will debate this during the coming week.”

In recent months, Petrovska has publicly voiced critical assessments of the situation within the party, saying: “If we do not change, we will disappear.”

Earlier, in response to journalists’ questions, the SDSM leader said this platform is another political project of Hristijan Mickoski, which SDSM describes as “ZNAM 2.0” and which, according to him, has only one goal: to deepen divisions in the opposition and weaken SDSM.

“I will not comment on Hristijan Mickoski’s projects. I regret that some comrades gave up on their party and their ideology. This has been seen before. Such was the ZNAM project, which is already gradually failing. The organizer is the same and the financier is the same,” Filipce said.

He added that he remains ready for any debate and discussion, but stressed that they should take place within the party structures.

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