The Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, stated that he supports the accelerated procedure for obtaining citizenship, but believes that it is not well conceived. He adds that it is true that there are citizens without citizenship, but as he said it will have to be solved with a method based on European standards.
"Witnesses do not solve this case. Witnessing is subjective. Anyone can bring three members of their extended family to say it. In the end it can be appealed and fall into court and legal. "So that is not a solution to the problem," said Zaev.
On the other hand, the first man of DUI, Ali Ahmeti, in an interview with TV Globe, said that there are no more than 3,500 stateless citizens. According to him, most of the citizens who do not have citizenship are Roma.
"There are manipulations again, aren't they Albanians?" Which community has the most statelessness? That is the Roma community! Citizenship has been manipulated, there were 100 thousand, there were 50 thousand. So far, in this 12-year period, about 15 thousand citizenships have been issued. "In total, according to the data and notifications I have received from the authorities dealing with it, the requests of some 3,500 citizens who applied for citizenship but did not receive an answer remained unresolved," Ahmeti said.