Tag: Constitutional Court

Restoring the possibility of amnesty for suspects who have participated in joint criminal enterprise of forging elections, or electoral fraud essentially means suspending the constitutional order, according to the civil society 'Frodem'. From 'Frodem' they call upon the MOI, the Special and regular Prosecution, to check for possible clues to whether the  five judges acted due to pressure or a...

The session at the Constitutional Court scheduled for Wednesday (March 16), where they will decide whether the President will have his right restored to pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud or keep the current Amnesty Law as it is, will be open to the public, said the Constitutional Court to "Meta". "The Court has always been open to the public. The session,...

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday (March 16th) has to decide whether the President will have the right to pardon people for election fraud or whether they will leave the current Law on Amnesty as it is. On the agenda for the next session of the Constitutional Court, published on the Court’s website between other topics, the agenda listed and the...

The current Law on Amnesty is good and there is no need to change it, says Justice Minister Adnan Jashari. This is the Minister of Justice’s first comment on the initiative to the Constitutional Court which opens the possibility of the President to be able to pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud, pedophilia and crimes against humanity. “I have the...

The Constitutional Court has again requested an opinion from the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia on the law that would deny the President his constitutional rights so he can not pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud and pedophiles. Parliament has 7 to 30 days to come out and give their opinion. Parliament and the government have said and assessed that...

Hundreds of people protested again today before the Constitutional Court and demanded the resignation of the judges who voted in favour, to consider the initiative for the constitutionality of the law that dictates that people prosecuted or sentenced for electoral crime can not be pardoned. Citizens chanted "Resign", "Goodbye criminal gang", "No Pasaran" and "We need to defend the Constitution...

A larger group of citizens today for the third time, protested in front of the Constitutional Court. From civil platform "Ajde", they delivered a letter to the Court stating that they should not be protecting criminal associations, but should be defending human rights. Protesters threw toilet paper and carried signs: "You Are A Gang Of Criminals," "Gel lost, Gangsters", "Party...

Civil platform "Come on", tomorrow at 12:00 calls for new protests outside the Constitutional Court after their decision to accept the initiative to review the constitutionality of the Law on Amnesty and Pardons, which dictates that persons prosecuted or sentenced for electoral fraud and crime can not be pardoned. "Come Monday, once again loud and clear, we need to send...

A group of citizens have gathered again in front of the Constitutional Court hitting pots and pans to show their anger at the courts ruling to amend the Amnesty Law, which would allow the President to pardon people convicted of various types of electoral crime. Citizens chanted “Hard time for the Mafia”, “Resign”, “Where is our money?”, “Where there's Grujo...

"These are the names of those people responsible for protecting Nikola Gruevski and the VMRO-DPMNE's crimes of electoral fraud, and voted in court as ordered. They are the five minions of the VMRO-DPNME in the Constitutional Court: Elena Gosheva appointed a judge in 2012, Nikola Ivanovski, appointed a judge in 2012, Vladimir Oavlov, appointed a judge in 2011, Vangelina...

The VMRO-DPMNE stand behind the changes, but not behind the decisions on the Law on Amnesty and Pardons, which were proposed to the Constitutional Court in 2009, so there could be no amnesty for certain crimes, such as those who have been sentenced for offences related to elections, paedophilia, etc., says the statement from the ruling party. "In 2009, SDSM...

After his arrival back in Skopje from a meeting in London with UK Minister for Europe David Lidington, the British Ambassador Charles Garrett tweeted a photograph of Skopje Airport along with the question "What's this news about enabling pardons for electoral fraud ?" https://twitter.com/BritAmbCGarrett/status/702773866276515840 The "Twitter" community immediately reacted and replies to his question poured in, some along the lines of...

With 5 votes "for" and 4 "against", the Constitutional Court has accepted the initiative for the President to pardon people who have been convicted of electoral fraud. The Court today discussed the initiative for assessing the constitutionality and legality of the Amnesty Law. The opinion of the judges over this legislation was divided, some thought no changes should be made,...

Tomorrow the Constitutional Court has a session scheduled for 9:00 am, and as the third item on the agenda are the amendments for amnesty, where the President of the country will be able to pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud, it said on the website of the court. With the amendments made in 2009, the President can not pardon persons convicted...

The Constitutional Court has dismissed the initiative from MP Pavle Trajanov and the President of the World Macedonian Congress (WMC), Todor Petrov, for the unconstitutional dissolution of Parliament with a delayed application and declared itself incompetent to decide on the dissolution of Parliament. At this mornings hearing regarding this initiative at the Constitutional Court, Judge Natasha Gaber, who is the...

Mitko Chavkov via telegram, ordered the UBK (Administration for Security and Counter-intelligence) and the BJB ( Bureau for Public Safety) to implement the ruling made by the Constitutional Court. Deputy Interior Minister Mitko Chavkov this morning by telegram informed the Directors of the Public Security Bureau and the Administration for Security, and Counter-intelligence that they're obligated to implement the ruling of the...

The Democratic Union today handed their initiative to start proceedings to assess the constitutionality of the decision to dissolve Parliament to the Constitutional Court. “Not only is it about an inconsiderate move, but until now it is unheard of in the history of parliamentary work, and with it, it directly violates the Constitution of Article 63, paragraph 3, which explicitly...

The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia confirmed that they have reached a new initiative to assess the constitutionality of the Special Prosecutor who submitted it to the President of the World Macedonian Congress, Todor Petrov, reported "Alsat M". Therefore, the Constitutional Court now has two requests which could take Katica Janeva down, and hew work with her. Such an...

The Constitutional Court rejected a motion which contested legislation mandatory payment contributions for freelancers because the challenged provisions no longer apply. The complaint to the Constitutional Court was filed by 7,000 citizens, to establish the unconstitutionality of the package of laws that regulate the contributions for freelancers. The Government lifter the law in July for freelancers With its entry into force on...

Over a hundred people today gathered at a protest march from the Ministry of Finance to the Constitutional Court, in which they filed more than 6,000 complaints against laws that project freelancers to pay health, pension and disability insurance. - Today we have come up with this scale, which is supposed to represent the justice in Macedonia. On this scale,...