Platform 12:05 urges resignations from Mucunski, Toshkovski and Shasivari after Iva Mihajlova's escape
Organisers say the government must explain whether the Mucunski–Chamova meeting in Sofia led to Mihajlova’s flight and call for ministers to resign if the claim is denied.
Organizers of the civic group "Platform 12:05" demanded the immediate resignations of Mucunski, Toshkovski and Shasivari and asked the Government of Hristijan Mickoski and VMRO-DPMNE to clarify whether the meeting between Mucunski and Chamova in Sofia included an agreement that enabled the escape of Iva Mihajlova. The group warned that such an event could become the trigger for snap parliamentary elections and prompt constitutional change under a technical government tasked with organising them.
In a public statement the organisers said that if the government denies the allegation, it should formally declare institutional incapacity and that the ministers responsible for justice, foreign affairs and interior must submit irrevocable resignations.
Calls for international intervention and political consequences
“If the Government denies the foregoing, then immediately recognize and declare complete institutional incapacity and request assistance from international strategic partners, while we have not yet jeopardized the visa-free regime with the EU and have not sounded NATO Alliance's alarm due to irresponsible management of the state borders,” the organisers of "12:05" said.
The group also urged the European Commission to press Sofia to stop political provocations and to demand that Iva Mihajlova be handed over to Macedonian judicial authorities without delay. They warned that, unless Sofia acts, pressure within North Macedonia could grow to reopen debate over the Treaty of Good Neighbourliness.
“Finally, we call on the European Commission to ask official Sofia to stop provocations from the highest political-state level and to demand that Iva Mihajlova be handed over to Macedonian judicial authorities without delay. Otherwise, because of such events, humiliations, staging victims of non-existent discrimination against Bulgarian citizens, internal pressure in Macedonia is growing to open the question of reconsidering the Treaty of Good Neighbourliness,” the organisers added.
The statement recalled earlier high-profile escapes that have tested Macedonian institutions, naming Dragan Daravelski, Nikola Gruevski and Artan Grubi, and said organisers sympathise with citizens’ sense of shame while demanding concrete institutional answers.
Photo: press material from the event
