30 January 2019
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 […]
21 January 2019
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 – […]
14 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
8 January 2019
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 […]
28 December 2018
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 […]
28 December 2018
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 […]
28 December 2018
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 […]
19 December 2018
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 […]
7 December 2018
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 […]
7 December 2018
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 […]
27 November 2018
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 […]
16 November 2018
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, […]
2 November 2018
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 […]
25 October 2018
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev believes in a full four-year term mandate and does not feel that there should be early parliamentary elections, but says that for such a decision, the opposition, Albanian political parties and, above all, Parliament are all important. “You know my position, unless it is urgently needed or necessary, only then would […]
22 October 2018
Ljuben Arnaudov, MP, one of the accused for the incidents in the Parliament building on the 27th of April, at the start of today’s trials at the Basic Court I Skopje announced that he doesn’t think somebody is a traitor and he doesn’t know who wrote the letter that was sent to the media two […]
19 October 2018
The EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn on his tweeter profile expressed his conviction that the MPs from all political parties in the Macedonian Parliament will put aside their party’s interests and will make a decision in the interest of the country and the citizens. These are decisive days for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. MPs […]
18 October 2018
Together with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, we remain fully committed to the perspectives of the new Balkans of the 21st century, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said today, answering a journalist’s question regarding yesterday’s telephone conversation with his Greek counterpart after the resignation of Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias. The prime minister added that Tsipras informed him […]
