Not a single citizen of (Northern) Macedonia has signed a declaration that he feels Bulgarian, that is what Bulgarian lawyers do, who are paid to mediate, writes the Minister of Energy of North Macedonia, Sanya Božinovska, on her Facebook profile.
Her publication is about the words of Bulgarian Vice President Iliyana Yotova that she personally saw the declaration signed by Bozhinovska, in which she states that she has Bulgarian self-awareness and origin.
According to Božinovska, however, "Mrs. Yotova lives in the fantasy world of the 19th century”, and the people in North Macedonia, who have sought a Bulgarian passport like her, do so "for one single reason – economic necessity to work outside (Northern) Macedonia".
„If Mrs. Yotova thinks that the fraud with the documents introduced by the Bulgarian state will change my feeling that I am Macedonian, and also the feeling of many of my fellow citizens, then she either does not understand that their policy of entrapment failed, or that we had an economic necessity, and she and politicians like her we let them fantasize as if they were in the nineteenth century. Instead of petty police tricks, Mrs. Yotova should start dealing with the need of the Macedonians in Bulgaria, to finally be recognized as a minority and to be provided with basic human rights,” writes Bozinovska.
The fact that Sania Božinovska has Bulgarian citizenship she herself admitted at the beginning of July, after this information was spread in the media in North Macedonia. In the statements that Bozinovska gave then, she claimed that she had renounced her Bulgarian citizenship.
A few months later, the topic was raised again after, at a press conference for the first hundred days of the administration of the VMRO-DMNE government, Bozhinovska was asked if she still had Bulgarian citizenship and if she could present a document that she currently did not a Bulgarian citizen, and she replied that she would ask her lawyers who are dealing with this procedure and would inform the media.
„I will have to consult with the lawyers on this matter. They conducted this procedure and it was a long time ago”, was Bozinovska's answer to a question on the site “360 degrees” whether there is still Bulgarian self-awareness.
"I was born in Skopje, I am Macedonian and I will always be Macedonian and no one can and should not dispute that,'' Božinovska wrote on her Facebook profile at the time, commenting that "all other sarcastic comments, strange questions and misinterpreted answers" will accept as the price of his modest political experience.
"I didn't come back home to participate in political games, I came back to put my knowledge and experience into energy as a specific and difficult problem," Bojinovska wrote.