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Pendarovski signs the Laws on Abortion, Discrimination, and Access to Public Information and 15 others
The President of the country, Stevo Pendarovski has signed decrees promulgating 18 laws that had not been signed by former President Georgi Ivanov, stated the presidential cabinet.
Among the signed decrees, were the proclamation of the Law on the Prevention and Protection against Discrimination, then the Law on the Termination of a Pregnancy, known as the Abortion Law. Pendarovski also...
Parliament is an institution that is least involved in the fight against terrorism
Parliament, as a body has so far been the least involved in the fight against corruption, believes Slagjana Taseva, president of Transparency International -Macedonia and the first president of the Anti-Corruption Commission. Similarly, MP Pavle Bogoevski, states that although legislature has jurisdiction over the laws and the election of members of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption, as well as a...
Deskoska announced a year-long control over the AKMIS system in all 16 courts
The Minister of Justice, Renata Deskoska announced today that she has made a decision with which during next year there will be a continuous monitoring of the AKMIS system in all 16 courts.
The problems with the information system for automatic allocation of cases (AKMIS), its non-functioning and the bigger influence on part of human intervention were determined with...
SEC’s new structure and laws were adopted that previously were agreed at leaders’ meeting
This afternoon, without explanation or discussion, Parliament has chosen the new structure for the State Election Commission (SEC) and the amendments to the laws that were agreed at leaders’ meeting on Monday.
The SEC’s members were elected with 100 votes "for" without anyone reported.
Oliver Derkovski from VMRO-DPMNE has been chosen to be the chairman of the Commission, and as vice-president...
VAT to be paid after a charged invoice and smaller penalties, demand companies
Companies detected 60 problems in the application of certain laws, and frequent amendments to the regulations in the past few years created problems for them, said Jadranka Arizankovska, senior advisor at the Economic Chamber of Macedonia.
The Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with other chambers and with the assistance of USAID, are implementing a project called "Partnership for Better Business...
The SPO announced a press conference tomorrow, new charges are expected
The Special Prosecutor's Office announced a press conference tomorrow at 12 o'clock without specifying what actually it is going to be about.
However, given that the SPO’s deadline for submitting charges expires in two days, it is expected that the prosecution at tomorrow's press conference will announce which of theor open investigations will they file charges for.
At the latest press...
Tuntev: Next week we shall be reporting laws concerning SPO
The parliamentary majority has informed the coordinators of the parliamentary political parties that it is necessary for a political agreement about the laws concerning SPO to be reached, informs the coordinator of SDSM's MPs, Tomislav Tuntev, who said that the laws shall enter into a procedure next week.
-Even last year when we were an opposition party we proposed...
Gruevski on Facebook: The election of Xhaferi as Speaker is a dictatorial act
Talat Xhaferi came into office as Parliament Speaker by brutally violating the Constitution, the laws and the Rules and Regulations of Parliament and everything in the future that he will participate in, and everything with his signature will be the result of a dictatorial act by appointing him Speaker of Parliament”, wrote today on Facebook the leader of VMRO-DPMNE,...
Nuhiu: MOI and Chavkov are responsible for the chaos at Parliament and I’m stepping down
The Minister of Interior, Agim Nuhiu, condemned the incidents at Parliament and said that certain parts of the ministry’s structures did not do their jobs properly and they will be held responsible.
He said that as minister, he had insisted on the creation of the operational headquarters since the protests started, and it included some of the MOI's high-ranking officials.
“The...
Zaev meets with four ambassadors: Macedonia must continue with the democratic processes
The Republic of Macedonia must continue with the democratic processes. This was stated at today’s meeting between the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev and the ambassadors of Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands in the country, Christine Althauser, Charles Garrett, Mats Staffansson and Wouter Plomp.
“The parliamentary majority of 67 MPs is ready to realize the people's will for...
New Parliament will be crucial for SPO, Constitutional, Supreme and Criminal Court
In the period of time after the new composition of Parliament, and after the deadline which expires on December 31, there will be a new reality for the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) and for the most important courts in the country – the Supreme Court, the Criminal and Constitutional Court, who left difficult issues to resolve after the election.
The...
We Responded Timely on SPP’s Demands, Claim Representatives of “Macedonian Telecom”
The telecommunications operator ”Macedonian Telecom” has announced today that it has timely replied to all of the demands made by the Special Public Persecutor and that the operator remains open to further cooperation with the authorities.
“We responsibly claim that we provided answers to all of the SPP’s demands and we remain open to a further cooperation with the authorities....
Political Parties are Abusing State System
There is no clear distinction between political parties and the state, the state system is being abused and political discrimination is frequent. Because of this, several laws have been violated. This was the conclusion made at the conference “Separating the State from the Political Parties", organized by the citizen’s association “Most”
Constitutional Court Judge Natasha Gaber- Damjanovska said that in Macedonia, there...
Tomorrow Parliament is to dissolve, there will be a vote on the budget, and possibly the laws on the SPO
At tomorrow’s session, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia should dissolve if early parliamentary elections are to be held on December 11. The initiative to dissolve Parliament was filed by SDSM, the ruling VMRO-DPMNE only accepted on the condition that the budget for 2017 is adopted.
On the official website for Parliament, tomorrow’s 125th session has been scheduled for...
Parliament Will Not Dissolve, They Will Wait For The Budget and Hahn While Thursday’s Plenary Session Will Have a Busy Agenda
Once Parliament officially scheduled a plenary session for Thursday (October 13), it became clear that MPs and Parliament would not dissolve on Wednesday (October 12).
As reported by “Meta”, the first reason is that the parliamentary debate on the budget for 2017 is still not finished. The document is still under review by parliamentary committees, then, once again the matter...
US Embassy: Requests By SPO For Support And Independent Investigations Are Reasonable
The US Embassy to Macedonia is encouraging all political parties to abide by their commitments under the Pržino Agreement and the Agreement from July 20, and according to the Embassy, that includes the support of the work by the Special Public Prosecution.
This was the reaction from the US Embassy after MPs from ruling majority today in Parliament would not...
Dutch Embassy: SPO Plays A Key Role, They Need Support From All Stakeholders
The Special Public Prosecution plays a key role in this process, it needs constant support from all parties, reacted the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands after Parliament did not approve amendments requested by the SPO in the laws on Witness Protection and the SPO they did not receive support from the ruling majority.
“The Netherlands has always advocated for...
SPO: Without The Law On Witness Protection We Remain Unable To Work On Certain Cases
Without amendments to the Law on Witness Protection, it makes the work of the Special Public Prosecutor's Office difficult, said the SPO, after today's session of Parliament where the ruling majority did not support the proposed amendments to the SPO (for extending the time for investigations) and the Law on Witness Protection.
"Without adopting changes to the Law on Witness...
Today MPs will vote on the laws which were agreed by the four parties in Pržino
Parliament Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski has scheduled a session today at 14:30 where MPs will have to vote to pass the laws that the representatives of the four main political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement reached last week.
On today’s agenda is the draft-law for amendments to the Law on Internal Affairs, the draft-law for amendments to the Law on...
Today MPs will vote on issues agreed by their leaders
Today the SDSM will have to return to their parliamentary seats and start implementing the agreement political parties reached on Wednesday. Recently they had frozen their participation in Parliament as a sign of their dissatisfaction of the Constitutional Courts reluctance to rule on the legality of the Special Public Prosecutions Office.
Changes to the Electoral Code must be made today,...
