The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristija Mickoski, said today that representatives of the Albanian opposition parties with their participation in yesterday’s protest in Skopje by law students on the issue of the bar exam are trying to destabilize the country.
He said today that the participation of high officials and Albanian political activists has given the protest a “political connotation”, reports Zhurnal.mk.
“We have informed our allies in NATO as well as within the European Union about the opposition’s attempt to create destabilization in a certain way. I think this has not received the approval of the high representatives of the international community,” he said when asked about yesterday’s protest in the capital.
Thousands of Albanian students from three different universities held a massive protest march in Skopje yesterday, calling on the Ministry of Justice to allow the jurisprudence exam to be held in the Albanian language. Under the cries of “Justice, equality, there is no state without youth!”, the young people left the Constitutional Court to finish their march in front of the Ministry of Justice building.
The axis of this protest is the implementation of the Constitution and the Law on the use of languages. Student representatives demanded an urgent legal solution and made a direct appeal to the Minister of Justice, Igor Fillkov, to reflect. After the minister’s previous statements that he would not allow the exam to be held in Albanian, the protesters escalated their reaction by demanding his immediate resignation. They warned that they will not withdraw from the path of protests until their demands are implemented.
