Prespa Agreement Ratification

The extreme right benefited from the radicalisation stirred by the national issue in the broader right wing.

'You accuse us of ceding [the status of] a people. Mr. Mitsotakis, you cannot cede something that you do not have. We did not have a Macedonian language.'

It is the government above all which should know that a lack of information in the parliamentary process constitutes a lack of democracy.

Skopje says that the amendments will be incorporated in the country’s basic law once the Greek Parliament approves the protocol for FYROM’s admission to Nato.

MP Andreas Loverdos says Skopje changed the order of events in the agreement and will incorporate the amendments in its constitution only after the Greek parliament approves FYROM’s Nato accession.

In recent days there have been unprecedented backroom machinations aimed at securing the 151 votes needed to ratify the Prespa Accord.

the upcoming ratification of the Greece-FYROM Prespa Accord and the shift in stance of To Potami party is what is now causing unrest in the PM’s office.

The PM clearly views its prospective ratification as a major accomplishment of his government.

The PM’s remarks were widely viewed as a bid to calm the public and MPs who were positive about ratifying the accord but expressed second thoughts.