North Macedonia’s PM comments on Bulgarian President’s remarks about inclusion of ethnic minorities in constitution

“What we are working on means that Gotse Delchev’s successors will write Radev’s compatriots and successors into the constitution”, thus the Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia Dimitar Kovachevski commented on the words of the Bulgarian President Rumen Radev that the leadership of North Macedonia can claim, that he was building a modern, multi-ethnic society when he found the strength to include Gotse Delchev’s compatriots in his constitution.

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When asked by a journalist whether his words in Reykjavik that “the discourse used by Bulgaria towards North Macedonia is very similar to the discourse used by the Russian Federation towards Ukraine” means that North Macedonia is refusing to include Bulgarians in the constitution, Kovacevski stated, that North Macedonia is not negotiating with Bulgaria, but with the European Union and the constitutional changes are part of the negotiation framework with the EU.

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“This is something that must happen, because citizens deserve to live in an EU member state,” Kovacevski pointed out, specifying that work is currently being done on this matter through the established working group.

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On the occasion of the request of the Alliance of Albanians, when changing the country’s constitution, the wording, which refers to the use as an official language of the language spoken by 20% of the country’s population, to be replaced by “Albanian”, Kovacevski indicated that in his opinion the priority should be what is included in the negotiation framework, which was also accepted in the parliament, including the Alliance of Albanians, but still the working group is the one that works on the constitutional changes.

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