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SDSM and Mickoski Trade 'Feelings': Fear, Prosecutions, and Macedonia's Eternal Rhetoric

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SDSM claims that fear has 'sunk deep into Mickoski's bones.' Mickoski replies that he 'has a feeling' former SDSM premiers and their associates will soon be prosecuted. Two 'feelings' on the table, not a single concrete verdict.

SDSM accuses the prime minister of business arrangements with Orban, misuse of state funds through loans, media, telecom, and infrastructure projects, and possible money laundering. They claim European prosecutors are investigating Orban-Mickoski-Vucic connections and that citizens will soon hear 'shocking details.'

Mickoski, on the other hand, expects SDSM to call Vasko Kovachevski to return and face justice. Rhetoric familiar to the point of pain: every government promises to prosecute the previous one, every opposition promises to expose the current one.

Deutsche Welle described it as 'sharpened rhetoric between government and opposition around the fugitive Gruevski.' But the real question is: will any of this reach a courtroom, or is it just pre-election warm-up for the next cycle? Macedonian citizens have heard this film so many times they can recite it by heart.