The main opposition party in North Macedonia announced on Thursday that it will submit an interpellation initiative against the Speaker of the Assembly Talat Xhaferi over “serious violations and mismanagement”.
The floor leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Micevski, said that in the last couple of days Xhaferi has testified not to be ‘worthy of the post’.
Micevski claims Xhaferi locked parliamentarians inside the Assembly and offended other employees in the institution.
“There are no rules or human rights in Talat Xhaferi’s book. This autocrat thinks he’s untouchable consequently, he must be taken as far away as possible from the temple of democracy”, said Micevski.
“This man allows himself to shelve the amendments proposed by the opposition, to discredit parliament employees who refuse to abide by his unlawful orders”.
But the cabinet of the Speaker of the Assembly thinks the opposite, accusing the opposition of undermining democracy while arguing that it is entirely constitutional to lock the doors of the parliament during nominal voting.
“The doors of the parliament were locked so that the parliament employees can count of the numbers of MPs who are attending the session, in order to determine whether there’s a quorum for the voting”, argued the press office of the parliament speaker.
VMRO-DPMNE has been actively vetoing several bills in parliament amid demands to go on snap elections.
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