Levica demands publication of all documents on 35th independence celebration
The party wants the commission’s full report, minutes, individual assessments and the timeline after only one bid was submitted and David Guetta was announced.
Levica has demanded that the Government publish all documents related to the celebrations for the 35th anniversary of North Macedonia’s independence, saying the way the event was handled shows “inconsistencies, illogicalities and gaps” that cannot be covered up.
The party points to the official timeline: the deadline for submitting bids expired on Friday, May 8 at 12:00, and the procedure produced only a single offer of roughly one hundred pages. Yet by Tuesday, May 12 the Government and the production company Avalon had already presented the programme and announced David Guetta to the public.
Questions about the evaluation and the commission
Levica says that the short interval between the bid deadline and the public announcement makes it impossible that a full evaluation was carried out. According to the public call, the commission was to run the procedure, perform evaluation, prepare a report with a recommendation for the most favourable bidder and assess a wide range of criteria — quality and innovation of concept, production value, expected public interest, technical and logistical readiness, financial justification and transparency. Yet Commission chair Nikolche Micevski later described the body as having functioned “practically only to establish whether the documents were complete and submitted on time.”
The party also highlights Micevski’s later role in the event: the same person who chaired the commission that reviewed the single offer reportedly appears as an author of arrangements for a concert with Jose Carreras, while Boban Milosheski publicly said that “with his friend and longtime collaborator Nikolche Micevski they had talked for two years about that project.” Micevski, for his part, claims he did not know at the time he led the commission that he would later be engaged in the programme.
Levica is asking for a full paper trail to be released so the order of events can be verified: the commission’s complete report, minutes of its meetings, any individual evaluations, explanations for each criterion, the decision to select the contractor, the date the selected organiser was notified and the complete timeline from bid submission to the official announcement of David Guetta. The party says only public access to these records will show whether a substantive evaluation took place or whether the process was merely a bureaucratic formality leading to a predetermined outcome.
The party also criticises the ruling VMRO-DPMNE for expecting citizens to accept an apparently rushed procedure. Levica notes that if everything had been proper there would be no reason to keep the documents behind closed doors — and says the delayed disclosure was forced by heavy public and media pressure.
Photo: press material from the event
