/ world today news/ The visit of the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to North Macedonia with proposals from the EU led to a scandal in the parliament, the opposition spilled symbolic “blood” on the podium.
The parliament of North Macedonia is debating the proposal of Paris to resolve the differences between Macedonia and Bulgaria in order to start accession negotiations with the EU countries. Von der Leyen arrived in Skopje. She met with the country’s authorities and said it was time for Skopje to take a “decisive step” towards EU integration. On Thursday, she urged parliamentarians to support the proposed document.
The opposition welcomed her in the meeting hall with whistles, shouts, posters and released a leaflet with the inscription “Don’t!” on the pulpit before her. Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski’s address to the parliament and supporters of the ruling Social Democratic Union of Macedonia was interrupted for two days by horns, whistles and shouts of opposition MPs who burned, tore up and threw away the draft document, reports RIA Novosti.
Deputy Olga Lozanovska recalled that “on this day in 1933, the Nazis passed a law for forced sterilization of persons with hereditary diseases.” “Both today and yesterday, already in 2022, they came to our house, to the parliament, to sterilize us, the Macedonians,” she said.
Opposition leader Tony Jareski poured red liquid on the podium and said those who supported the document would commit “treason, end up in the dustbin of history”. “Therefore, let this liquid remind you of the blood on which you step, of the victims of fascism, of the children of Vatasha (the execution of 12 Macedonian youths on June 16, 1943 by the Bulgarian invaders) and of the blood of the heroes who died for Macedonia, which you are defiling by your actions,” he said.
The SDSM and its allies demanded an apology from the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE “for comparing the head of the European Commission to the Nazis”.
We remind you that Bulgaria does not support the entry of North Macedonia into the European Union for a number of historical reasons. Relations between EU member Bulgaria and North Macedonia have been fraught with disagreements over a “common language and history”.
Translation: PI
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