VMRO finds way to accommodate its officials

Hristian Mickoski's party requires the abolition of Article 3 of the Penal Code's Article 96L, which stipulates that criminal acts up to 5 years in prison age after 10 years from the time there is suspicion that it was committed. With this VMRO-DPMNE, it seeks to rid the prosecution of its former officials who are currently attended by the Special Public Prosecutor.

Calling to Article 353 of the Penal Code, which envisions sentences of 3.5 and 10 years in prison for abuse of official office, former VMRO-DPMNE officials, including former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, risk that criminal acts stemming from illegal wiretapping will serve high prison sentences.

If Article 3 in 96L is abolished or changed by a 5-year measure, then special indictees will be released from prosecution and thereby, for criminal acts by Article 353, misuse of official duty will not be followed because the fact that acts in question are suspected of being committed in 2010-2012, 2018 included a period of more than five years, which is in favour of the opposition to rescue their co-partisans.

The VMRO-DPMNE has denied today that it requires amnesty. According to the largest opposition party, the government is manipulating citizens and trying to distract attention from their daily problems.

Unofficially, it is taught that at yesterday's meeting the four participating subjects have basically agreed to pass the Law on the financing of political parties and the formation of the KSHZ. If VMRO continues to condition the formation of the KSHZ with the Law on Government, power is now close to establishing legal changes in the Electoral Code at the plenary session. However, the government expects the next meeting to culminate in compromise for the formation of the KSHZ and declaration of the referendum. As for the referendum question Prime Minister Zaev proposed at the first meeting of leaders, VMRO requires that the question be legal, not to distract citizens respectively. /Alsat M/Kosovo priss/