Macedonian Energy Minister Sanja Bozinovska said that "not a single citizen of (North) Macedonia who has acquired Bulgarian citizenship feels like a Bulgarian", BGNES.
"In fact, we have seen this in the census in Macedonia with the extremely symbolic number of self-described Bulgarians. People like me wanted a Bulgarian passport for one reason - economic needs to work outside Macedonia. If Mrs. (Iliana) Iotova thinks that the document fraud introduced by the Bulgarian state will change my feeling of being Macedonian, and the feeling of many of my fellow citizens, then either she does not understand that their policy of subterfuge has failed, or she does not understand that we had an economic need. She and politicians like her we have let them fantasise as if they were in the nineteenth century," Bozinovska said.
Minister Bozinovska called on Bulgaria Vice President Iliana Iotova "to start addressing the need for the Macedonians in Bulgaria to finally be recognised as a minority and to be provided with basic human rights.
BGNES reminds that Bozinovska and her entire family are Bulgarian citizens. The father Pero, the mother Violeta and the brother Daniel, as well as Bozinovska herself, are Bulgarian passport holders.
In order to obtain the document, they proved their Bulgarian roots and declared their Bulgarian identity with a signature.
Bozinovska lied several times to the Macedonian citizens that she was no longer a Bulgarian citizen. The minister in Christian Mitkoski's cabinet applied for a waiver in September last year, but did not receive a decree. In June this year, it emerged that she was running a company in Croatia with a Bulgarian passport. Bojnowska was ridiculed in the Czech media for being a "big energy expert and consultant" in Prague, actually selling pantyhose, which she personally advertised.
Applying for exemption from Bulgarian citizenship does NOT automatically complete the procedure. This is done by special decree and applies to both current Bulgarian citizens born abroad and Bulgarians who were born on the territory of present-day Bulgaria. | BGNES
