POSITION OF THE SECURITY AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE SERVICE IN THE SYSTEM OF RULING ORGANIZATION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA – CONDITIONS AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

Despite the proclaimed constitutional principles for democratic legal order, the Security and Counterintelligence Service as a successor of the former secret police, the first years of independence of our country was influenced by the presence of the relics of the previous totalitarian regime. The paradigm for such a claim regarding the Macedonian security services, also applies to the Security and counterintelligence Service which in fact exists as the most conservative and hardest structure that by all forces opposed to the reforms of the system. Due to the lack of will for freedom from his past and not accepting the changes, altogether with its democratic habitus, its functioning at certain periods was a real threat to democratic processes. The process of the slow transforming of the pillar of the communist nomenclature only affirmed the power of the Service for state security. Her task in the entire past transitional period was to defend and protects the system, its political leadership, and itself from the fictional “Internal enemy”. That exclusive position allowed the security services continuously to be inextricably linked to the system and its members acted by party political instructions and abuse.