19 May 2017
SDSM’s party president, Zoran Zaev, today will officially start the negotiations for forming a new government. He has received the mandate from president Ivanov a day before yesterday. The first meeting should be with DUI’s president Ali Ahmeti, but the timing still hasn’t been set, as SDSM’s spokesperson Petre Shilegov explained for Meta. What will […]
11 May 2017
The record holder between the political parties for collected donations from January 1 to December 31, 2016 is VMRO-DPMNE, with a total collection of 1.88 million euros in membership and donations from individuals and companies, states the report issued yesterday by the State Audit Office. From the total 5.880 registered contributors, the party collected 115.55 million […]
6 May 2017
The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) has asked all institutions to bring to light the motives behind the murder of the mayor of the municipality of Bogovinje, Hazbi Idrizi, which, the press says wasn’t provoked by anything. “DUI is deeply at shocked by the news of the murder of the member of our family and the Mayor […]
3 May 2017
The president of the Democratic Union of Integration, Ali Ahmeti, today at the party’s headquarters in Mala Rechica met with British Ambassador, Charles Garrett, Dutch Ambassador, Wouter Plomp and Sweden’s Ambassador, Matts Staffansson. “At the meeting, all the guests welcomed the election of the new Speaker of Parliament by the parliamentary majority of the Parliament […]
27 April 2017
This afternoon, the parliamentary majority selected DUI MP, Talat Xhaferi as Parliament Speaker. The chairman of the constitutive session was MP Ferid Muhić, as the second in line, Branko Manojlovski was absent from today’s session. Muhić chose Goran Misovski and Dzevad Ademi as his deputies, and the selection for Xhaferi to become Speaker was chaired […]
20 April 2017
Today, in Tetovo, DUI’s party leader, Ali Ahmeti had a meeting with the Ambassador of France, Christian Thimonier, during which, as was announced by the party, the political situation in Macedonia was discussed, the geopolitical circumstances and the possibilities for solving the both the political and the institutional crisis During the meeting, Ahmeti had stated […]
18 April 2017
The former Swedish Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, who today had a series of meetings with various leaders of political parties in Macedonia, tweeted a photo of his arrival at Mala Rechica, Tetovo, at DUI headquarters. When he took the photo, it is most likely he did not intend to […]
18 April 2017
Everybody should behave responsibly, said the leader of DUI Ali Ahmeti, after meeting with former Prime Minister and the former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt. “This was a very interesting meeting because Carl Bildt has great experience and he is a great expert on current affairs, politics, the Balkans and elsewhere. We all need to […]
10 April 2017
DUI’s central residency had a brief meeting today in Mala Rechica, after which the party leader Ali Ahmeti stressed that he doesn’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, reported A1on. -We are putting our best effort to resolve this crisis, but that doesn’t depend on us but on all parties. Some of […]
2 April 2017
“Unitary”, “federal”, “cantonal”, “united”, “unified”, “confederate” and “multi-ethnic”. These are the terms and adjectives that dominate the narrative of political parties in Macedonia in the pre and post-election period and during the political crisis that resulted from negotiations between the parliamentary parties to form the new government. Most of these terms are used by all […]
1 April 2017
We haven’t made a decision whether we will join the government. We only talked about the election of a president of the Parliament. We aren’t withdrawing the signatures and we will help in the process as much as we can, said the Besa Movement’s MP, Afrim Gashi when he guested at “Top Tema” Tv show […]
31 March 2017
At today’s meeting of DUI’s central residency, which is occurring at the party’s headquarters in Mala Rechica, there will be a discussion for withdrawal of DUI’s ministers from the government, said party sources for “Meta.” If the central presidency decides to make this decision the current government will remain without a third of its ministers. […]
31 March 2017
The fifth installment of the constitutive session passed in sophistry among the political parties and objections, rather than debating the points on the agenda, namely the election of members and president of the Commission on Elections and Appointments. The oldest member of Parliament, Branko Manoilovski from DUI, calls on all MPs to put aside their […]
31 March 2017
Today, the leader of DUI, Ali Ahmeti summoned an urgent meeting of the Central Presidency where they will discuss an exit strategy from the Parliament blockade, and also up for discussion is the behaviour of Besa. The chief of staff, MP Artan Grubi said that the meeting’s agenda will be the opposition coalition between VMRO-DPMNE […]
28 March 2017
At the second prolongation of the constitutive session, the MPs, like yesterday, instead of discussing the first point from the election of members and a president of the Commission of elections and appointment issues, most part of the debate was spent on discussions about the platform of the Albanian parties and for the use of […]
27 March 2017
After a three-month break and negotiations, parliamentary political parties today will continue the constitutive session of Parliament, which began on December the 30th, last year and was discontinued because there was no agreed parliamentary majority and MPs were unable to elect a president of Parliament. According to today’s agenda of the continuation of the constitutive […]
21 March 2017
We are part of the majority and we will not breach the agreement, said DUI’s party leader Ali Ahmeti, after the meeting with the EU’s Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations and the three EU MPs, Ivo Vajgl, Eduard Kukan and Knut Fleckenstein at the Parliament. -We gave our signatures for a parliamentary majority […]
17 March 2017
The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia at 10.30 this morning will submit at the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia an initiative for extending the constitutive session at the Parliament, during which, a new president of the Parliament will be elected, announced SDSM. Immediately after submitting the initiative, at the Parliament’s press center, a statement for […]
15 March 2017
The party leaders of SDSM and DUI, Zoran Zaev and Ali Ahmeti, held talks at SDSM’s headquarters for finding a solution for the political crisis after President Gjorge Ivanov yesterday announced that the obstacles for giving the mandate still exist. After the meeting, Ahmeti said for “Alsat-M” that he had talks with Zaev regarding the […]
10 March 2017
Even bilingual banknotes and uniforms will be constitutional, said DUI’s spokesperson, Bujar Osmani, in a statement for Radio Slobodna Evropa, after Zaev’s press conference. The SDSM party leader said that these weren’t in line with the Constitution, that was it suggested by experts that his party has consulted. “We think that these things are completely […]
