Apasiev to seek parliamentary laws after doorstep debt-collection complaints
Levica leader will use parliamentary questions and draft laws after citizens complained about aggressive collection — including a claim of a 30,000‑denar doorstep demand.
Levica leader Dimitar Apasiev announced on 15 September 2026 that he will take institutional steps in parliament after receiving complaints about aggressive collection practices tied to fast, short-term loans.
Citizen reports of doorstep demands
Apasiev published an email from a citizen who says two people came to his home without identifying themselves and demanded an immediate cash payment of 30,000 denars for a debt to a finance company. The message, shared by Apasiev, says the visitors asked the man to hand over whatever cash he had at the moment; the sender adds that he is being treated for cancer and appeals for help to stop such actions.
Following the complaint, Apasiev publicly called on the governor of the National Bank and the finance minister to explain on what legal basis such collection can be carried out.
He asked in a social-media post: "Let's ask the governor of the National Bank and the finance minister, who supposedly 'are not competent' for fast cash loans — under what law is forced debt collection carried out by racketeers at the door?"
Apasiev said these practices have surpassed the limits of a civilized society and pledged legislative action in the fast-loans sector. He argued that the current situation lets citizens be exposed to practices for which institutions have spent years shifting responsibility to one another.
"This already crosses all bounds of a civilized society and we will have to resolve this by law, so that the people are freed from the usurers," he wrote, and invited anyone with problems related to quick loans to forward their testimonies to his email address: d.apasiev@sobranie.mk. "I ask all citizens who have problems with fast loans to write to me about their troubles at the email, and we will try to articulate that through parliamentary questions and draft laws, so that finally we put an end to this legal plunder of the people to which the authorities pretend to be deaf and blind."
Photo: press material from the event
