Tag: Besa movement

Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that there is no need to further open Pandora's Box, while commenting on moves made by the Albanian opposition - the BESA wing led by Bilal Kasami and the Albanian Alliance, who submitted draft amendments to the Constitution that will result in Macedonia strictly being defined as a civil state, and the Albanian...

The branch of the current President of the Besa Movement, Bilal Kasami, announced that the party will hold its first party congress on February the 24th. However, yesterday, the Skopje branch held a congress and Afrim Gashi was elected president. Abdus Demiri, announcing the congress at today's press conference at Skopje's headquarters, said they would not comment on "other parties and groups"...

Bilal Kasami, accompanied by his supporters today, managed to enter the headquarters of the Besa party in Skopje, located in the Mavrovka shopping center. Yesterday, Kasami filed criminal charges at a police station because for three hours he was not allowed to enter the premises where private security had been hired by the Skopje branch of the Besa Movement. Earlier, the...

The opposition party Besa is in a deep discord after two parallel meetings of the highest party organ, the Central Council - one in Skopje and another in Tetovo – where diametrical opposed decisions were made. Bilal Kasami was replaced at the rally in Skopje due to the "political decline of the party" and a congress was announced on...

Despite the second parliamentary session, where the only point on the agenda is electing the new government, today in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, the 21st continuation of the constitutive session will be held. At today’s session, MPs will be discussing the election of the president, vice president, members and deputies for the Commission on Elections and...

This afternoon’s part of today’s parliamentary session in Macedonia, to elect a new government proposed by the Prime Minister-designate Zoran Zaev, was full of arguments over who was a criminal and who has done what, who has been incriminated and who has not. However, there were other disagreements too, some over procedure, - such as how much time can...

All the fuss being made for a joint roundtable of Albanian parliamentary parties for some Albanian parties in Macedonia is to win political points for the local elections, says the Besa Movement. Besa will not accept a meeting that is initiated by the President of DUI in Skopje. "Those who are guilty that Besa was stripped of two MPs and were...

The Besa movement has suggested foreign experts ask several questions to the State Statistical Office why it has, as they have said, issued false information. “How did it happen during a time when there was an attempt for a population census in 2011, out of 39 groups of state instructors, none were led by an Albanian? How did it happen,...

If elections were to be held tomorrow, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM would have been almost equal, shows the latest poll by the agency ”M-prospect”, commissioned by “Telma TV.” For VMRO-DPMNE,  23,3% of the citizens would vote for them, while 23% would vote for SDSM. The only change that would happen, would be among the Albanians. If elections were to be held...

The Organized Crime Department at the Public Prosecution Skopje is leading the preliminary investigation for unlawful financing of the electoral process against several NGOs and the political party Besa, reports Nova TV. The portal which is a source of the information indicates that "senior sources in the inquiry have asked to remain anonymous as they fear for their safety." According to...

Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, today denounced interference of Albania and Kosovo in the internal affairs of Macedonia as improper and inappropriate “It is improper, nor appropriate when a Prime Minister or President of a neighbouring country directly interferes in internal affairs, especially not in a period of time after democratically conducted elections and the formation of government. They are...

The founder and President of the Besa movement, Bilal Kasami, met with Ambassador of the Netherlands, Wouter Plomp, where they discussed the conditions for the eventual participation of Besa in the constitution of the new government. “We demand that the mandate of the Special Public Prosecutor's Office is extended, a possibility to establish a special court and return Macedonia on...