CONTEMPORARY MACEDONIAN DEFENCE : ENCOUNTERING THE MACEDONIAN DEMOCRATIC DISCONTINUITY: POLITICAL SUBJECTIVITY IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Abstract

This article reflects on recent Macedonian political history (2014-2017). During this period of time Macedonia was experiencing its hardest political, institutional and legal crisis since its independence. Moreover, twice it was even dithering on the edge of a security crisis. In other words, the degenerative Macedonian democratic discontinuity, for which the country got the attribute as a captured state, at one point, was revealed in a form of severe systemic distortion. On the other hand, the prolonged crisis [3 years] had its functional component as well, as it left enough room for provoking, mobilizing and articulating a genuine supra-religious, suprapartisan, supra-ethnic civil resistance movement against the democratic discontinuity. That is in essence related to the massive student protests [Students Plenum] which will be conjoined with other resisting groups building together a common political subjectivity via The Colorful Revolution. As a new element in the Macedonian political culture, the contestatory engagements, have not only helped in overthrowing the government, but have led to serious interventions in the Macedonian political system, as the Przino Agremment, stipulates the institutional novelties: The Special Prosecutor’s Office and The Pre-Electoral Technical Government.