Tag: dissolution of parliament

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 Speaker, Trajko Veljanoski has ten days to convene a session, and to put on the agenda a request for the dissolution of Parliament. This morning, parliamentary group, the SDSM and Democratic Alliance MP Pavle Trajanov both filed motions for the dissolution of Parliament. Coordinator from the SDSM, Goran Sugareski said that in the interest of resolving the political crisis, their party...

The leader of the Democratic Union for Integration, Ali Ahmeti welcomed today’s decision by the Constitutional Court, saying it the first necessary step in resolving the political crisis. “I welcome today’s decision by the Constitutional Court which is the first step which allows us to return to Parliament and is necessary for solving this difficult political crisis. I invite all...

At the session at the Constitutional Court today, where they assessed the constitutionality of the dissolution of Parliament, they also adopted an interim measure that will freeze all activities arising from disputed decisions to dissolve Parliament. This, as the Constitutional Court explained to "Meta" means, that all actions will be stopped, including the election campaign, electoral deadlines, and all other...

Before the dissolution of Parliament, which was announced late Wednesday night by President of the Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski, they did not complete their obligations to the SPP. MPs did not even review the SPP’s initiative to amend the Law on Witness Protection, and did not adopt any of the recommendations from the Venice Commission regarding the law on privacy and whistle-blowers. The prosecutor...

President of Parliament Trajko Veljanoski decided to dissolve Parliament, and to sign off on April 15. The statement from the Veljanoski’s Cabinet says that this decision was made so elections on June 5 would be fair and democratic. "According to the decision that Parliament be dissolved, I, as Speaker, as is my duty and in accordance with my constitutional prerogatives...

Tonight Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski announced the dissolution of Parliament without voting in the resignations of the interim ministers and deputy ministers from the SDSM. MPs from the opposition did not attend the session. Mr Veljanoski thanked all is colleagues and wished them luck. “We have passed tough ordeals, but in this term we have had many successes. I wish you...

With 83 votes in favour and just 3 'against' Parliament passed the amendments to its decision to dissolve itself. The Legislature, in accordance with last night's decision, should be dissolved on April 7, or 60 days prior to forthcoming election date. MPs, without any SDSM members, voted on changes to the Electoral Code, which has set June 5th as...