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On August 31st, the leaders of the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement confirmed the date December 11 for early parliamentary elections. The day after, the ruling party began reshuffling the staff at the Ministry of Interior, employment within the ministry and a series of manoeuvres ahead of the early elections. Some experts and opposition parties have characterized these moves...

Constitutional Judges at today's meeting unanimously annulled the two decisions to dissolve Parliament adopted on 18 January and 23 February of this year, confirmed the Constitutional Court for "Meta". “The decision to dissolve Parliament on the 18th of January and the decision amending the decision to dissolve Parliament on the 23rd of February 2016 have been annulled. This decision by...

Constitutional judges unanimously voted for the decision to launch an initiative to assess the constitutionality of the dissolution of Parliament. The final decision on whether the dissolution of Parliament is constitutional will be announced by the Constitutional Court next week, and until then temporary measures have been applied to stop all actions arising from the disputed decision of the Parliament to...

Constitutional Judges Natasha Gaber-Damjanovski, Ismail Darlishta, Gzime Starova and Sali Murati today came out with their own separate opinion on the amendments made to the Amnesty Law, which the Constitutional Court changed on the 16th of this month, which allows the President to pardon people who have been convicted of electoral fraud and crime, pedophilia and drug-trafficking. In their dissenting opinion,...

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,...

Public Prosecutors and Judges will receive a higher salary for overtime and work on national holidays with an increase of 35 to 50 percent. This was stipulated by the draft laws on amendments and supplements on the Law on salaries for Public Prosecutors and Judges, which is already going through parliamentary procedure, through a shortened procedure. The two bills proposed to the...

Nikola Gruevski confirmed that he was eavesdropping in Macedonia along with his cousin, director of UBK, Sasho Mijalkov, stated Petre Shilegov, SDSM spokesman, at today’s press conference. - Gruevski confirmed that he and his closest associates made intrusion in the judiciary: they manipulated prosecutorial and judicial decisions, appointed and dismissed judges on party eligibility. It is proved by Nikola Gruevski’s...

Nikola Gruevski is trying to protect himself from all sides in panic. One of his last steps yesterday is passing a bill which introduced unconstitutional authority "Council for determining facts and raising procedure for accountability of judges." - According to the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, only responsible for the selection and dismissal of judges is the Judicial Council....