SKOPJE, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The leader of social democratic union (SDSM) Zoran Zaev, who secured a majority of parliamentary seats, unveiled the program of the new government on Friday.
Rejecting the claims that the platform of SDSM threatened the unity and integrity of Macedonia, Zaev said his program abides by the country's constitution and is aimed at providing a better life to citizens and faster integration to European Union and NATO.
He added that his program would be a reformatory one, focused on meeting Macedonia's strategic interests.
He also announced that the new government would adopt a law on enhancement of languages, enabling citizens to have easier communication with state institutions, in compliance with the Constitution.
He said he was personally against changing the country's flag, coat of arms and anthem to include the Albanian community, but was open to a wide and transparent debate on all open issues, which he insisted could only be beneficial.
Further on, SDSM's Zaev called again on President Gjorge Ivanov to award him a mandate to form a government as soon as possible.
President Ivanov has refused to mandate Zaev to form a government, saying that Zaev had presented him with a platform that threatened the interests of the country.
Through this platform, Albanian parties require that the Albanian language is made an official language of the country.
Asked by reporters on the protests staged across country against Zaev's platform on making the country bilingual, Zaev said such claims were "a lie."
He called on protesters to go home, saying that they had been misled by fierce propaganda into thinking that his new government would trade away Macedonia's national interests.
Macedonia held snap general elections on Dec. 11, 2016, but no government has been formed yet.
