PSD: Albanians' strong turnout in referendum is to be welcomed

Officials of this party are following developments in Macedonia with concern, following last night's referendum on the Prespa Agreement, and calling on political parties there to assume the responsibility they face to implement this agreement and pave the way for NATO and the EU for the country; as a precondition for stability, security and prosperity in the region.

The Albanians' strong turnout in the referendum is to be welcomed. It testifies to the will of a democratic Macedonia, unlike the one in which they have lived so far. The Albanian vote again testified that Macedonia's Albanians are the determining factor of the country's approach and that those necessities should be treated equally and have the right political place in new Macedonia.

According to the PSD concern is the level of non-participation which has resulted from the failure to clean up voter lists and calls for boycotts, mainly from the VMRO-based shovinist figures. DPMNE. Such calls learned to block the Prespa Agreement and turn Macedonia to zero point. The goal of the boycott camp remains to exploit Macedonia's isolation, to turn it into the nationalist initiative of xenophobic for close political calculations.

Implementation of the Prespa Agreement paves the way for a new era for Macedonia, that of relations between states of the region. Relations that must be built according to the principles of equality, good neighbourlyity and reciprocity, of genuine cooperation. Any other plan takes Macedonia and the entire region towards the unknown.

More than ever, Macedonia needs political leadership. It is the duty of leaders of the political parties and deputies of Macedonia's Parliament to assume the responsibility they have to remove the country from the ghosts of the past. Reaching political consensus for the country's integration into NATO and the EU through the Prespa Agreement is an extraordinary test of democratic maturity for Macedonia, the PSD's response said,