Eurasia Press & News
Macedonia’s Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski faces a no-confidence vote in parliament on Tuesday after the opposition accused him of missteps that damaged the economy.
Slaveski’s party, the ruling centre right VMRO DPMNE and their coalition partners have a majority in parliament so the no-confidence vote is seen as a statement, not a substantial threat to his job.
The main opposition party, the Social Democrats, hold Slaveski responsible for the government’s non-compliance with a ruling of the Constitutional Court’s that stopped their project of introducing so-called “patriotic fiscal receipts” that separated home from imported products.
Opposition legislators say this unnecessary move caused material damage to vendors and to the whole economy.
Slaveski is under the public spotlight also for another controversial reform the launch of the gross salary calculation that caused the master software at the Public Revenue Office to crash and left nearly all of Macedonia’s employees without a salary.
The Social Democrats, the main trade union and several companies had said that the reform was going too quick but Slaveski insisted that these are just minor glitches that are common at the start of these kinds of large scale reforms.
