Dtt-net.com – Crisis in Macedonia is looming again as an Ethnic Albanian party is leaving the coalition government following the refusal of the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to meet a list of demands including on the improvement of the rights of the non-majority of the country.

The Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) said it has decided to quit Macedonia’s government following the refusal of its Macedonian coalition partner, the VMRO-DPMNE, to meet its demands on increased rights for the Ethnic Albanians, which make one-quarter of 2.1 Macedonia’s population.

The DPA leader, Menduh Thaci, told reporters today that he has decided to leave the government and expects his decision to be confirmed at today’s party’s presidency meeting.

Thaci said ‘the departure is matter of hours’, after an urgent meeting he had today with the US ambasador Gillian Milovanovic. The European Union envoy to the country Erwan Fuere is also due to meet with him during the day.

Thaci said the leader of the VMRP-DPMNE and the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has refused DPA demands which include the use of the Albanian language at all levels; abandoning the opening of the files on alleged war crimes by former Ethnic Albanian guerillas during the war of 2001; agree on state pensions for former ethnic Albanian guerrillas, and increase the number of ethnic Albanians employees into public adminstration.

The recognition of Kosovo’s independence by Macedonia and the use of the Albanian flag is also on the list of DPA demands.

“At these important and historic moments for the Republic of Macedonia there is a unseriousness functioning of the state institutions. I wouldn’t like that my party becomes part of it,” Thaci said, whos DPA has eleven deputies at the 120 seats in the assembly.

Without DPA the government would loose the majority at the parliament.

The new row between DPA and VMRO-DPMNE made the main opposition party of Ethnic Albanians in Macedonia, the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) today to call for early elections.

 

 

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