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Unofficial results by SEC: SDSM – 46 seats, VMRO-DPMNE – 44, DUI – 15, the Alliance – 12, Levica – 2, and DPA – 1 (INFOGRAPHIC)

According to unofficial results by the State Election Commission (SEC), in the early parliamentary elections that took place yesterday, the "Mozheme" (We Can) coalition, led by SDSM and Besa won 46 MP seats in the parliament of North Macedonia and is followed by the opposition coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE, which won 44 MP seats. DUI won 15 seats, the...

Parliament formally accepts resignations from Gruevski and Bogoevski

Today, at the 102nd Government session, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi formally accepted the resignation of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled the country and was granted political asylum in Hungary. At today's session, the resignation of MP Pavle Bogoevski was also noted, which he announced at the session of the Commission for Mandatory and Immunity Issues before the opening...

Commission votes for proposal to strip Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate

The Commission on Mandate and Immunity Issues has voted on the proposal to strip fugitive MP Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate in his absence on the grounds that he was unjustifiably absent for over six months. The motion was passed with five votes "for", while MPs from VMRO-DPMNE did not vote. The proposal should be submitted at a plenary...

Nine presidential candidates from VMRO-DPMNE: Siljanovska, Gjorchev, Petrovski …

The Commission for determining a presidential candidate for VMRO-DPMNE yesterday held a session to review the submitted applications for those declaring an interest for presidential candidate, who will participate in the upcoming convention on February 16 in Struga, reported the Vice-President of VMRO-DPMNE, Vlado Misajlovski today. He added that the Commission has confirmed 10 applications were submitted, one of which was submitted after the...

Parliament repeals Gruevski’s MP salary

With 53 votes in favor and 3 neutral, the amendment to the Law on the MPs was passed, with which the MPs that are sentenced to imprisonment for 6 months will lose their salary as an MP, then the travel costs all the other benefits. The President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferri voted neutral. -I'm not convinced by the solution in...

By solving the name dispute, the Church issue will also move forward, states Patriarch Neophyte

The Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte expects that solving the name dispute will help boost the efforts for the resolution of the Macedonian Church issue. -The process about the name of the country of Macedonia is still underway. When all the details are determined, most certainly the resolution of the church issue will also move forward - said the Head of the...

New amendments to Constitution published in the “Official Gazette”

Amendments from 33 to 36, together with Constitutional Law on their proclamation, which were voted in with 81 votes, were adopted at the 75th session of Parliament, on Friday, and were published in the 6th issue of the "Official Gazette" this year, i.e. on January 12, 2019. With these amendments to the Constitution, after the Prespa Agreement comes into force,...

Spasovski: What happened on the 27th of April will not happen again

Moments before the final adoption of the constitutional changes is expected, and during tense protests in front of Parliament, Minister of Internal Affairs Oliver Spasovski today from Radovish would not directly answer the question whether an escalation of events is possible, as on April 27, 2017, when the protesters stormed Parliament and several MPs and journalists were brutally beaten. "The...

Afrim Gashi’s BESA: We shall vote in favor of the constitutional amendments

BESA's three MPs that are part of the wing that recognizes Afrim Gashi as a president, but not Biljal Kasami, will vote in favor of the constitutional amendments. Gashi announced that they are determined in favor of the Euro-integrations and will support the constitutional amendments in order to meet the conditions determined by the Prespa Agreement. This is of high...

Agreement reached with Kasami’s Besa on constitutional changes

An agreement has been reached with Bilal Kasami’s wing of BESA, to vote on the constitutional changes, a spokesman for SDSM Kostadin Kostadinov said at a press conference this afternoon. He did not specify what exactly had been agreed, but stressed that it would be explained through party statements. He said that the continuation of the session to vote on constitutional changes...

Zaev and Sela agree on constitutional changes – the preamble will be changed

After today's meeting at the Holiday Inn hotel in Skopje between with Prime Minister and SDSM President Zoran Zaev, leader of the Alliance of the Albanians (AA), Zijadin Sela, stated that they have reached an agreement and that MPs from his party will vote for the changes to the Constitution. He said that due to the Alliance's insistence, the separation of citizens...

16 civic organizations demand an urgent withdrawal of the proposed law amendments in the Criminal Code

16 civic organizations have asked from the President of the Parliament and the MPs who proposed the law, to urgently withdraw the Proposal of a Law Amending the Criminal Code from the agenda, in summary proceeding. They state that by changing the articles of the Criminal Code it will allow the cases that are led by SPO to give...

Journalists announce lawsuit against the state over “Bloody Thursday”

At least 15 journalists were were reporting from Macedonian Parliament during the violent attack and the rampage on the 27 April, announced they will file a lawsuit against the Republic of Macedonia for damages. According to Goran Trpenoski, Dushica Mrgja and Bobi Hristov, the lawsuit's initiators, the state will be sued in accordance to Article 166 of the Law on Obligations - "Responsibility...

With 79 votes in favor of, the amendments for the Law of audio and audio-visual services were passed

With 79 votes "in favor of," at the 78th parliamentary session, the draft-law for amendments to the Law of audio and audio-visual media services was passed. This law was voted by VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition's MPs and Liljana Zaturoska stated that the opposition will lodge a proposal for amendments to the already passed law, that she has named as "a...

Kocijancic: The adoption of the law on amnesty is an important step for reconciliation in the society

The adoption of the law on amnesty concerning the persons that were involved in the attacks at the Parliament on the 27th of April 2017, was greeted by Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations. -The decision by the Assembly to adopt a law on amnesty with a large majority is an...

Opposition MPs who voted for constitutional changes deny Lavrov’s claims

Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with the Greek daily newspaper "Ekathiremini", today announced that he blamed the United States an the EU for brutal systematic interference in the internal affairs of Macedonia. In that context, he said that "On October 19, "Parliament passed a resolution on constitutional changes by blackmailing and bribing MPs from the opposition in...

Lavrov accused the EU and the US for interference in Macedonia’s internal affairs

There is a rough systematic interference by the US and the EU in the internal affairs of Macedonia. On a daily basis, its citizens were asked to vote in favor of the Prespa Agreement in the referendum on 30 September this year. The referendum, as it is known, failed. In this situation in the House on 19 October, with...

Zaev: I will do my utmost to make the process of constitutional changes successful

At the meeting with Nikola Todorov and Mitko Janchev, I talked about the Coordinative Body for Reconciliation and Reforms, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev relied to a journalist's question. "Nikola Todorov and Mayor Mitko Janchev clearly expressed responsibility, I believe that he can encourage certain MPs who know what is the right step, but still do not have the courage to...

Zaev concerned about parliamentary majority for constitutional changes

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today said that Nikola Gruevski's escape is not related to the vote in Parliament for the start of the changes to the Constitution stemming from the Prespa Agreement, however, nevertheless, he added that he is concerned about the parliamentary majority. "For me the first priority is the political process in Parliament, and that's because we providing...

Zaev: Four amendments to the Constitution, Ohrid Agreement will be added in the Preamble

Through an inclusive and transparent process, the Government has drafted four draft amendments to amend the Constitution in accordance with the Prespa Agreement, announced Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at a the press conference in Government. "The first amendment will be the replacement of the name Macedonia, with Northern Macedonia throughout the Constitution, except for Article 36, where there is a...