Tag: DUI

MP and the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), Talat Xhaferi today submitted a proposal to Parliament - amendments to the Electoral Code, where articles in the law can be deleted such as the dates for the elections. Xhaferi told "Meta" that in his proposal - amendments to the law should have no new...

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...

The DUI party has filed a motion to the Constitutional Court to assess the constitutionality of the decision to dissolve Parliament, confirmed the party's spokesperson Bujar Osmani, for "Meta". They have requested that the Constitutional Court assess the dissolution of Parliament as unconstitutional, which would allow Parliament to convene again. Sources within the Constitutional Court told "Meta" that time is too...

"We havn't agreed to anything concrete, this is just the beginning of talks", stated the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev after his meeting with the German special envoy Johannes Haindl. Straight after Zaev's meting with Haindl, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti turned up with his Chief of Cabinet Artan Grubi and the Mayor of Tetovo, Teuta Arifi. After Haindl's meeting with Ahmeti,...

"What elections? Are you joking?" This was the reaction of the leader of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), Ali Ahmeti, when he answered the first question in an interview with the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" about the elections. The DUI’s response explains the parties position on meeting all the criteria, according to them, the credibility of the elections has to...

Tomorrow's scheduled meeting of Macedonian leaders in Vienna, where Commissioner Hahn and MEPs, Ivo Vajgl, Eduard Kukan and Richard Howitt are meant to be in attendance, along with leaders of the four main Macedonian political parties, has been postponed "Meta" has learnt from diplomatic sources. Up to the present moment there has been no official confirmation from Brussels regarding the...

The leader of the DUI party, Ali Ahmeti, while speaking as a guest on the show “Klik plus” on “Televisions 21” confirmed that he would be participating in the meeting in Vienna on Friday, organized by European Commissioner Johannes Hahn. Ahmeti said that he did not want to return from Vienna without some sort of agreement. He said the Przhino...

The SDSM have still not made a decision whether they will send a delegation from their party to the leaders’ meeting on Friday in Vienna. Initiation for the meeting came from the three MEPs Ivo Vajgl, Richard Howit and Eduard Kukan, who organised and scheduled it as well. When correspondents from “Meta” asked the SDSM whether they had come to...

Presidents of the DUI and the SDSM, Ali Ahmeti and Zoran Zaev, today had a meeting which lasted half an hour where they discussed the current situation on the general amnesty granted to politicians signed by President Gjorge Ivanov, and about his resignation. The position of both parties is that the decision to pardon by Ivanov should be revoked. The DUI...

The DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, assessed that the decision of the "so-called president" Ivanov to stop court proceedings against politicians, would not solve anything. Ahmeti said Ivanov's decision was hasty and thoughtless and has requested assistance from the European Commission to find a solution to the crisis, which according to him is only getting worse. Ivanov in his address to the nation,...

The candidate for the position of Deputy Defense Minister, Bekim Maksuti, who is part of the list by the DUI party for new employees in government of their party, is not on the list of proposals for election of new ministers and deputy ministers, Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev has submitted to the President of Parliament, Trajko Veljanoski. This can be...

The President of Parliament Trajko Veljanovski at today's plenary session, took into consideration the resignations from the ministers and deputy ministers from the Democratic Union of Integration (DUI). In the course of the day, Veljanovski will schedule a new session and on the daily agenda will start looking into the choices of the new ministers which were proposed last night...

At today's plenary session of the Macedonian Parliament, discussions were held concerning resignations of Ministers and Deputy Ministers from the DUI, also discussed were selection of new Ministers and Deputy Ministers from the DUI which were submitted yesterday by the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) Leader and President Ali Ahmeti. Among candidates for the Ministerial positions and Deputy positions were...

At the moment, consultations for the selection of new ministers in the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) are ongoing, and so far there have been no announcements from the VMRO-DPMNE to change the ministerial composition of the party, stated the Cabinet of Interim Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev for "Telma." "Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev accepted the resignations of ministers from DUI and...

By disregarding basic democratic principles, it is clear that the elections will not better democracy in the county, but it will be the burial of the remains of what was once a democratic state, says Belgian expert and former facilitator in the negotiations in the Przino Agreement, Peter Vanhoutte in a post published on his Facebook profile. In his post,...

The next steps of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) following the withdrawal of its ministers and deputy ministers from government, will be decided by its leader, Ali Ahmeti, and no-one else, said his Head of Office, Artan Grubi. Grubi's reaction comes after today's announcement by the leader of the VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, who said that DUI was not leaving Government,...

The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) did not leave government, they are in the process of replacing their staff, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski, adding that any party has that right if they participate in Government. He said that he did not have a meeting with DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, following the withdrawal of his ministers from Government. "We have not had a meeting,...

The Special Public Prosecution (SPP) today announced that they have filed preliminary proceedings concerning the recordings of private conversations between senior officials of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), which were posted on social networks. They strongly condemn the publication of materials on social networks, which, as they say, threaten the integrity, dignity and morality of certain people. The SPP reminded the public...

Today, Nikola Gruevski, the leader of the VMRO-DPMNE at the opening of the National Archive and the Ministry of Interior in Kumanovo said that the decision by DUI to withdraw its ministers from government is an internal party issue, and he has no intention on commenting. "I don't have a specific comment to make. The issue is an internal party...

The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) issued a longer statement in where they continue to explain last night's decision to leave Government. In the statement, the emphasis was placed on recordings of conversations by senior officials of the party which were leaked to the public and the responsibility for their distribution. "Since the beginning of the political crisis in the...