THE PROCESS OF LUSTRATION IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

FACING THE PAST OR FACING POLITICAL OPPONENTS

Abstract

With the proclamation of independence, the period of transition
and democratic consolidation began in the Republic of Macedonia. One
of the bitter problems during its transition and democratic consolidation
was its determination to confront the totalitarian past. The subject of this
paper will be the lustration process in Republic of Macedonia. This
paper attempts to reveal the approach chosen by the political elites
toward the lustration process. While doing that, we will rely on the
method of analysis, historical, normative and political method. The
overall conclusion is that the decision to begin the lustration process
came too late and that in the Macedonian model of lustration prevails the
moment of political confrontation of the ruling party with its political
opponents.