Tag: immunity

The legal part was not fulfilled to the end, since the Commission for the Rules of Procedure and Mandate-Immunity Issues did not have a draft decision. I call upon the law, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, at a press briefing regarding why he had not initiated a vote on stripping MP Trajko Veljanoski of his immunity. The MP is charged...

Parliament will be held responsible if suspects Trajko Veljanoski and Ljupco Dimovski eventually flee the country after their parliamentary immunity was not confiscated, said the Criminal Court to Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, who tried to put the blame on the court for the possible escape of the two men. "We have just witnessed for the first time, Parliament, who are...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi says that last night he had to interrupt the session to strip Trajko Veljanoski of his immunity because the deadline had passed for making a decision, but also because of the behavior of the MP from the majority Mohamed Zeqiri. "The session was interrupted because the time allowed for making a decision in 24 hours has...

In the latest development in the case against the participants in the violence in Parliament on April 27, 2017, yesterday the former Minister of Transport and Communications and former high-ranking official of VMRO-DPMNE, Mile Janakieski, former Minister of Labor and Social Policy and Education, Spiro Ristovski, were taken into custody yesterday, while former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, after the...

In a plenary session, without a debate, Parliament, with 62 votes in favor, accepted the recommendation from the Commission for Procedural and Mandate-Immunity Issues to strip Nikola Gruevski of his immunity. The court has requested that Gruevski be detained for election fraud in the "Titanic" case, for irregularities in the construction of highways in the "Trajectory" case, the demolition of...

The Commission for Rules of Procedure and Mandate-Immunity Issues, with five votes in favor, adopted the six requests from the Criminal Court to strip MP Nikola Gruevski of his immunity for the purpose of detention. Not a single MP from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, whose honorary president is Gruevski, was present at the session. The court seeks the detainment of Gruevski...

The police violated the right to MPs immunity and the presumption of innocence when the three MPs were detained on November 28th, this year, as part of the 36 people detained who are suspects in the violence in Parliament on 27 April, the Ombudsman found. According to the Ombudsman, the police in this case did not comply with the Rule...

Today's decision by the Commission on Procedural, Mandate and Immunity Related Issues, was not based on facts and arguments, but it’s based on SDSM’s desire for political revenge against MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition, also, to the many citizens who showed personal virtue and awareness to speak publicly against SDSM policies, reacted VMRO-DPMNE's parliamentary group. The opposition party says...

The Committee on Procedural, Mandate and Immunity Related Issues, with five votes "for" and without abstention or votes “against”, approved the request from the court and came to the decision to propose to Parliament that the immunity be revoked from MPs Sašo Vasilevski, Ljuben Arnaudov, Krsto Mukoski , Johan Tarchulovski, Ljupco Dimovski and Žaklina Peshevska. At the commission hearing, members...

This evening, Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi submitted to the Committee on Procedural, Mandate and Immunity Related Issues, requests for the approval of the custody of MPs Krsto Mukuski, Ljuben Araundov, Sašo Vasilevski, Ljupco Dimovski and Žaklina Peshevska, reported the Parliamentary services today. Basic Court Skopje 1, who handle organized crime and corruption, filed the requests yesterday. Xhaferi submitted the requests to...

Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi stated that he has not received a request to revoke the immunity of the MPs who were arrested today due to the violence in Parliament on April 27th. He said that if he received such a request, he would forward it to the competent parliamentary committee. “If a request is submitted to me from an appropriate competent...

VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Nikola Gruevski, and MP of the Parliament of Republic of Macedonia, who is accused in the “Titanic” case, the Special Prosecutor Office is seeking custody. Last Friday, he informed the Parliamentary Commission that he would give up his right to immunity, confirmed Parliament today. Further more, the Commission is not competent to act upon this information, however, Gruevski...