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Former Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski, has received Hungarian citizenship four years ago from Orban, making extradition impossible!
2026-05-30 23:17:27 / BOTA
Former North Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been granted Hungarian citizenship since 2022, four years after he fled to Hungary, a development that Hungarian media say makes his extradition to North Macedonia almost impossible.
The news was reported by the investigative portal "VSquare", citing sources in the Hungarian government.
According to the report, Gruevski was granted Hungarian citizenship due to the "interest of the Hungarian state" and is believed to continue to live in Budapest.
The issue of Nikola Gruevski's stay in Hungary came back into the spotlight recently, when the new Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Magyar, declared that his country would not become a "haven for criminals," referring to the former Polish Minister of Justice, the former Deputy Minister of Justice of the same country, and the former Prime Minister of North Macedonia, who were granted political asylum in Hungary by that country's former Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
Following the above statements by the new Hungarian Prime Minister, the two former Polish officials, whose extradition is being sought by Donald Tusk's government in Poland, have left Hungary, while Nikola Gruevski remains in Budapest.
"Gruevski's position is significantly safer. Political asylum can be revoked, but the removal of citizenship is a much more difficult legal process," Vsquare estimates.
Nikola Gruevski, 56, served as the country's prime minister from 2006 to 2016. In November 2018, he fled to Hungary, where he was granted political asylum by his political ally Viktor Orbán, to avoid serving a two-year prison sentence for a corruption case related to his time in office.
Gruevski was granted asylum in Hungary on the grounds that he was being politically persecuted by then-Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. He has since been convicted in other cases, with total sentences exceeding ten years in prison.
The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski, said that the government in Skopje had no information that Nikola Gruevski had been granted Hungarian citizenship.
He had recently stated that he did not consider the former prime minister's return to the country possible, adding, however, that if this happened, he would be arrested and sent to prison to serve the sentences imposed on him.
In 2019, the then Social Democratic government in North Macedonia requested the extradition of Nikola Gruevski, but the Hungarian court rejected the request.
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