The recently inaugurated President of FYROM, Ѓorge Ivanov, briefing the assembled journalists at 08th of June this year stated that "Every other compromise is a compromise under extortion, with blackmail and it won´t be of benefit to our side. Therefore we wish to achieve a solution with which the Macedonian identity won´t be violated, the pride of the population won´t be crushed. The compromise has to be accepted also by the population. According to the Constitution, the sovereignty originates from the citizens, and there is no more sovereign right for somebody than to define one own identity. That is why the referendum is the act through which the people should provide its attitude about the stance of the state for the name. The people should not feel deprived, defaced, with a right which is owned by everyone who lives on this planet taken from it, the right for self-determination and self-identification."
Many analysts consider FYROM´s proposal for referendum a demagoguery in light of the fact that the current Government in Skoplje has a full legal authority to negotiate and bring a decision for the change of the name via agreement with Greece. Analysts have an opinion that a referendum for change of the name, regarding of the formulation and the surrounding campaign, is doomed to fail when the extreme prevalence of ultranationalist mentality among the Slavs of FYROM is taken into consideration.
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