On May 7, Pope Francis will arrive in Skopje for the first time. His visit is regarded as historical because it coincides with the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Northern Macedonia and the Vatican.
His agenda will begin in the morning, and many popes and foreign supporters from the Pope are expected to come to Skopje.
Skopje will be blocked on May 7, but Secretary of State Viktor Dimovski says security in the country will be at the highest level.

And from the Ministry of Interior report that they are taking all necessary measures for fully and efficiently securing the event and the high guest.

After the official reception, Pope Francis will meet with the President, Gjorge Ivanov, the Prime Minister, Zoran Zaev, representatives of the civil sector and the diplomatic leadership. During his stay, he will meet with the religious leaders and the poor. In the program for the apostolic journey of the Pope in Northern Macedonia, a liturgy is also planned, and is expected to participate in the ecumenical and inter-religious gathering with the youth. Pope Francis will finish his 29th apostolic journey in the afternoon on May 7, with a meeting he will meet with priests and their families, after which he will return to Rome.

"We do not have a winter time, we do not have summer water. Always before the elections, politicians come and lie to us, after the elections are nowhere to be found, "one resident of the Bitola Bair told a citizen journalist who went to see if after five months something changed after the announcement of CIVIL that people in Biala for decades they live without a drop of water.

Another resident of this impoverished settlement adds that the mayor of the Bitola municipality, Natasha Petrovska, promised them to solve the problem of electricity and water.

"Natasha promised us that we would fulfill our desire to have water. But now elections will come a little more and I want to tell Natasha to consider and solve the problem, otherwise it will not send people to persuade us to vote, because, as they come, they will leave. In Bair no one will vote, "she says.

"Before the elections they come and lie to us that if we vote, they will solve the water problem and give us 500 denars to vote. Why should I give my voice for 500 denars? "Says one resident of Bair, who wants to remain anonymous.

Residents say they have blocked several times for the state and the municipality to hear their problems.
"In the school, we let the children go with lice, because we do not have water to swallow them," says a disturbed mother.

Five months ago, on 6 November 2018, a part of the CIVIL team, together with a team of citizen journalists, visited the Bair settlement and met with the mayor of Bitola, Natasha Petrovska and the director of JKP Vodovod, Goran Kozarov, who noted that they know about that problem they are trying to solve.

However, even five months after CIVIL reported on the problems faced by the Bairian (k) and, there was no reaction from the local and central authorities.
Are the Roma in Bair counted and seen only as a voting machine ?!

Link: https://civilmedia.mk/zhitelite-na-bair-bitola-politicharite-na-ovie-izbori-nema-da-ne-izlazhat-so-vodata/?fbclid=IwAR0TZQmXQsYEF5N-4h9UPEbmzzlmP5PfI3zG3ZMm1tCtxJZYXo10qQRM9B0

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