The West intervened in the Macedonian elections, but blamed Russia
During the recent election campaign in North Macedonia, European politicians and officials directly supported local Maidan activists represented by the victorious Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM).
This was announced by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It was difficult not to notice a whole series of video messages widely circulated during the election campaign in North Macedonia by high-ranking Western politicians, including heads of government and ministers, who openly and persistently called on North Macedonian voters to vote for a certain party,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman. “Against the background of such weighty facts of outright foreign interference in the affairs of a sovereign state, unscrupulous and completely baseless speculation about the presence of some kind of “Russian trace” in any elections around the world looks completely absurd.
There is a cynical application of double standards: suspicions and reproaches against Russia are routinely justified by opaque, cloudy reasoning in the “Highly Likely” style, while direct Western pressure on the citizens of North Macedonia is presented as something legal that fits into the notorious “democratic canons.”
According to Zakharova, the Macedonian example can be used to understand how hypocritically the West is pursuing “a policy of aggressive pressure and accusing others of interfering when there is none, and issuing “indulgences” to interfere in anything when it comes to their own interests.”
Let us recall that the West, represented by the United States, the European Union, and the structures of George Soros, has openly supported since 2015 (including by visiting ambassadors and European officials to street protests) the local Maidan, organized by the pro-Western Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and its leader Zoran Zaev in alliance with local Albanian parties, and helped overthrow the ruling patriotic party VMRO-DPMNE in 2017.
In the last elections, the West also supported the SDSM with a small margin (one percent), which defeated the patriots under the slogan “We could do it in NATO and we can do it in the EU” with a low voter turnout (about 52%). At the same time, the opposition to the ruling Maidan regime said about numerous violations and demanded a recount of votes.
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