Parliament approves SCPC annual report for 2025 amid opposition criticism
Committee members approved the SCPC's 2025 annual report even as opposition MPs argued it is delayed and fails to show the true scale of problems.
Parliamentary members on the Committee for Political System and Inter-community Relations approved the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption's annual report for 2025, but dissenting voices from the opposition accompanied the endorsement.
NSDP MP Sonja Mirakovska criticized the document as late and ineffective, calling it, in her words, "For her, it is merely statistics — which do not reflect the real situation in the country."
Key findings and referrals
Adem Chuchul, chairman of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC), told MPs the body faces significant constraints: "the commission is completely constrained, primarily by budgetary resources, but also by staff, and for years has relied on international support." Despite those limits, the SCPC reported it had opened 43 cases related to allegations of election irregularities and sent eight initiatives to the Public Prosecutor's Office to pursue criminal proceedings.
The committee also accepted the SCPC's special reports documenting findings on campaign financing from the most recent local elections.
The session rekindled public controversy over the commission's rejected initiative into the fuel (mazut) procurement for the Negotino thermal power plant. Three months ago the first person of the SCPC, Cuculj, said he did not want to comment on a prosecutor's decision or on an initiative that belonged to the previous composition of the Anticorruption commission.
MPs on the committee concluded the debate by sending the approved reports to the full Assembly for further consideration; political disagreement, however, suggests the topic will return to the parliamentary agenda as parties press for deeper answers about staffing, funding and high-profile procurement cases.
Photo: press material from the event
