Constitutional Court: The Resolution Against Illegal Migration Is Just a Political Declaration - While Mickoski Talks About Over 100,000 Foreign Workers

The Constitutional Court unanimously rejected SDSM's initiative against the Resolution condemning the opposition's manipulations and confirming policies against illegal migration, which Parliament adopted in December 2025. The reasoning: the resolution contains no legal norms, only "exclusively declarations of a political character," so the Court has no jurisdiction to review it.

In other words - Parliament can adopt a document condemning the opposition for how it talks about migration, and that document legally means nothing. SDSM argued that the resolution violates Article 16 of the Constitution and is an attempt to restrict the opposition's freedom of speech about migrants. The Court didn't go into that.

The timing made the case more interesting than the decision itself. A few days earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Nikoloski spoke about the need for 50,000 foreign workers a year. Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski mentioned over 100,000 people from third countries as a possible answer to the labour shortage. "Two days after Nikoloski's announcement and one day after Mickoski's announcement, we see a decision by the Constitutional Court," SDSM responded, repeating its accusations that the judiciary is under the prime minister's political control.

Except that SDSM offered no proof of that link. And the case had been scheduled for the session as early as October 8, before Mickoski's and Nikoloski's statements. Its review had previously been postponed on September 30 because the rapporteur judge was absent. The calendar, then, doesn't help the theory of orders from above.

But the real irony isn't in the Court. Ten months ago, Parliament adopted a resolution against the opposition's "manipulations" over illegal migration. Today, Mickoski's government is publicly calculating whether the country needs 50,000 or 100,000 workers from third countries. The numbers are estimates for now, not decisions. But if the resolution is just a political declaration, the question is legitimate: who is manipulating the migration issue now - and when will citizens get a real plan instead of slogans?