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The agreement with Bulgaria has became the new Tirana platform in VMRO-DPMNE’s narrative

After six months of constantly mentioning the declaration signed by the Albanian political parties, VMRO-DPMNE have stopped mentioning the so called Tirana platform, not even in Parliament, where it was their favorite subject. They do not mention it at regular official party conferences, press conferences or statements. The last person to publicly speak and use the phrase the Tirana platform,...

Gjorcev: SDSM can not prevent the remaining MPs from discussions

SDSM has no grounds to revoke the rights of the remaining 45 MPs in the Macedonian Parliament to speak on an item from the agenda just because SDSM doesn’t like their discussions, said VMRO-DPMNE MP Vlatko Gjorcev, at the party’s press conference today. He accused SDSM of wanting to break the Rules and Regulations. “The attempt by SDSM to violate the...

Bushati: Involving the Albanian platform into the Constitution will have positive effects

There is a deep crisis of democracy in Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski and his party are trying to transform this democratic crisis into an inter-ethnic crisis, said Albanian Foreign Minister, Ditmir Bushati in an interview with “Euractiv”. “There is no Tirana platform, there is a document that has been written by three out of four Albanian political parties that are present...

Rama: The platform was written in Macedonia, I facilitated the communication

Albanians have never been, nor will they be a problem in Macedonia, as for the accusations surrounding the so called “Tirana platform”, it is a political game, said the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, in an interview for the web portal Dialogplus.ch, reports a “Meta” correspondent in Tirana. Rama in the interview added that Macedonians know very well that...

Zaev: Gruevski should face me in a duel so we can discuss all issues in front of the public

If we do go ahead with parliamentary elections together with the local elections, we will win more seats, but President Ivanov, again under Gruevski’s command, will not award us the mandate to form a government, said the leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev in an interview for “Kanal 5” where he called on Gruevski for a televised duel, to talk...

Gruevski announces political document – “Platform for the preservation of Macedonia”

VMRO-DPMNE are preparing a political document, where they will offer a way out of the political crisis, announced the leader of the party, Nikola Gruevski in yesterday’s interview on “Kanal 5”. Gruevski announced that in the next few days, he expects the document to be finalised and he will offer it to the larger political parties as solution and way...

Academicians, like politicians completely disagree with each other over the political crisis

Members of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) have completely opposite views regarding the political crisis in the country, as well as different opinions on current developments and the tensions raised by the platform of the Albanian parties. The president of MANU, Taki Fiti, in his opening speech at today's 50th Jubilee of the Academy, said that the...

Ivanov demands that the European Council engage and condemn the Platform

The Tirana platform is a document that represents an ultimatum and it has suspended the Agreement from Przino in which the European Union has invested all of its foreign–political credibility, said the letter that was sent by President Gjorge Ivanov to the members of the European Council, the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, the General Secretary of...

Late last night, Ohrid was flooded with leaflets against the “All-Albanian platform”

Last night, Ohrid was flooded with propaganda fuelled leaflets, four pages long, with the message “You don’t agree? Do something!”. The leaflets were put into mail boxes in buildings, homes, cars... On the first page, the front page of the leaflet, it reads, “All-Albanian platform, Tirana, 07.01.2017”. In the inner two pages, there are written points taken from the platform, with...

How VMRO-DPMNE has been changing the wording regarding the platform

Since the publication of the platform of the Albanian parties on January the 7th of this year, VMRO-DPMNE have repeatedly changed the terminology and wording in their statements, press releases and in their interviews they have referred to the platform as a “document”. VMRO-DPMNE’s terminology ranges from just “platform”, to “new platform”, “national platform”, “platform for Albanians”, and the wording evolved,...

VMRO-DPMNE demands new parliamentary elections alongside local elections

VMRO-DPMNE feels an obligation to respect the will of the majority of citizens that have voted for the Coalition “For a Better Macedonia” and because of that reason including our strategic determination, we will not allow any solution that is contrary to the state and national interests, said today’s VMRO-DPMNE press release. “It is legitimate for Zoran Zaev and SDSM...

Ivanov repeated statements from yesterday’s speech at the meeting with Mogherini

President Gjorge Ivanov at the meeting with the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, repeated his position that "in accordance with the Constitution, he will not appoint anyone who negotiates with platforms of a foreign country, that are blackmailing Macedonia, and threatening its sovereignty, independence and unity of the state", announced the...

Brussels will not comment on the platform of Albanian parties

The European Commission today refused to comment on the platform of the Albanian parties, but restated that they expect a government to be formed as soon as possible, and that it will have broad political support. “We have said repeatedly, we are not speculating on the composition of the government or the program in Macedonia, but what we are expecting,...