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Parliament passes SEC law for a six-month mandate

With 80 votes in favor, without votes against, the Parliament adopted the Draft-Law regarding Amending the Electoral Code, following a shortened procedure, which would establish a temporary structure of the State Election Commission (SEC). This law was agreed by the government and the opposition, and was submitted by MPs Tomislav Tuntev, Dragan Danev, Ejup Alimi and Afrim Gashi, coordinators of...

The Parliament will get a Code of Ethics, today the French model has been studied

The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia is preparing a Code of Ethics that aims to strengthen the ethics of the MPs and increase confidence in Parliament. At the panel discussion "The Role of the Parliamentary Ethic in the Implementation and Respect of the Code of Ethics in Parliaments - Practice of the National Parliament of the French Republic", Parliament...

Dimovski: Visitors to opposition MPs are being reported to their employers

At today’s 45th session in Parliament, VMRO-DPMNE MP Ilija Dimovski asked to address colleagues, who after a short debate with the Parliament Speaker was granted permission. But instead of discussing the extensive agenda, as his party counterpart Dragan Danev had done before him, Dimovski issued serious allegations of abuse in Parliament. He said that he had serious knowledge of guests...

Zaev: Threats, humiliation and causing fear in front of MPs’ homes is not acceptable

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev believes that the protests which are being organized in front of the MPs' private houses, create several criminal acts and he personally will protect their children from fear and terror, caused by the protesters. This was stated by Zaev at the Basic Court Skopje I, after today's hearing regarding the "Bribe" case. “Protests are permitted by...

Following Zaev’s meeting with Mickoski, a consensus on reforms has been announced

A possible consensus between the government with the main opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, was mentioned by the Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, after yesterday's meeting with the President of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. According to the government, and Zaev in a statement to the media, they discussed current political developments, ongoing negotiations with Greece, the Electoral Code and the election...

A parliamentary group for the rights of the LGBTI community will be established in Parliament

Today the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia will establish and promote the Inter-party Parliamentary Group for the rights of the LGBTI community, which will be members from the existing parliamentary composition from various political parties. The initiators of this idea are MPs Maja Morachanin, Pavle Bogoevski, Branko Manoilovski, Liljana Popovska, Irena Stefoska, Ivana Tufegdzic, Juliana Nikolova, Petar Atanasov, Nikica Korubin,...

Helsinki Committee: No laws were broken when MPs were detained

The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights has not found any violations of procedures under the Constitution and the Laws regarding the detainment of six MPs suspected of violence, which occurred in Parliament on the 27th of April, last year. Today, the Helsinki Committee reported that they had come to this conclusion after complaints were filed by MPs from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, concerning...

Xhaferi postponed the debate on the Law on Languages, because “there are no technical conditions”

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi postponed the debate on the Law on Languages, which was the eighth item on the agenda of today's 32nd session, because, as he says, “there are no technical conditions for a hearing”. “Keeping in mind the formal procedure for processing all the amendments which are 35,569, and they are not finalized. The business translation obligation is...

Parliament ratifies the Treaty of Good Neighborly Relations with Bulgaria

,k k k k k k k '/4With 61 votes in “favor” and one abstention, the Parliament ratified the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborly Relations and Cooperation between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Bulgaria. Independent MP Ferid Muhić refrained from adding anything to what he had announced before the vote that he would vote in abstention. Before...

Parliament can not elect new Constitutional judges due to a lack of quorum

Today, Professor and Dr. Osman Kadriu and Dr. Darko Kostadinovski were not elected as new judges in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Macedonia because there were not enough MPs in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia to vote on their appointment. At today's continuation of the 27th session, which one of the main topics was the proposal...

Mickoski: VMRO-DPMNE will not be taking part in the Parliament’s work due to a lack of democratic ambient

The president of the biggest opposition party announced today in front of the Parliament that VMRO-DPMNE's MP group will not be taking part in its work until "the government's political prosecution against its opponents stops" and until the people taken into detention aren't released. -In Macedonia, at the moment, there isn't any democratic ambient that would contribute to a...

Spasovski: The police acted in accordance with the law when they took the MPs into custody

When the police took the MPs into custody regarding the violence at Parliament, they acted upon an order issued by the Court and the officers acted in accordance with the legal authorizations, said today the Minister of Interior, Olivier Spasovski. This statement arrives after the question posted by the Ombudsman, Idzet Memeti, whether someone will be held accountable on a...

Memeti: Police violated the right to MPs immunity while taking them into custody

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...

Detention for MPs and Chavkov, Ilievski, Damovski, Durlovski extended

The Criminal Court in Skopje extended the detention to another 30 days for MPs Krsto Mukoski, Sasho Vasilevski and Ljuben Arnaudov, the former Minister of Interior and the Director of Bureau for Public Safety, Mitko Chavkov, the organizers of the protests for "For a United Macedonia" Igor Durlovski, Boris Damovski, Bogdan Ilievski and another 16 people who were suspects...

PPO requests the detention to be extended for Chavkov, Ilievski, Damovski and Durlovski

The Public Prosecutor's Office for Prosecuting Organized Crime and Corruption requested that the Criminal Court extend the detention of suspects connected to the violence in the Parliament on April 27th.. "The Public Prosecutor's Office for the Prosecution of Organized Crime and Corruption submitted to the competent Basic Court Skopje 1 a proposal for the continuation of the pronounced detention measure...

Ivanov will deliver the annual speech at the Parliament

Starting at noon, President Gjorge Ivanov will deliver his annual speech at the Parliament. Opposition party MPs are still deciding whether to attend Ivanov's annual speech. In the forthcoming days, they shall be making another major decision i.e. whether they should re-engage in the Parliament's work. Because the Parliament wasn't constituted this time last year, Ivanov made his speech...

Ivanov will address Parliament on December 26th

President Gjorge Ivanov will address MPs in Parliament next Tuesday (December 26th) at noon. It is the regular annual speech of the president of the country in front of Parliament, as anticipated by the Constitution of the country. "In accordance with Article 85, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, I would like to address the representatives of...

VMRO-DPMNE will boycott work in Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE will not participate in any work connected to Parliament or parliamentary bodies, due to the imprisonment of MPs Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Sašo Vasilevski who are in the pre-trial "Shutka" prison, as well as MPs Johan Tarculovski, and Žaklina Peshevska and Ljupco Dimovski who are under house arrest. “Currently, SDSM is the ruling majority and they have a...

Protest in front of Shutka prison for freeing the detainees for the attacks on the 27th of April

This afternoon, VMRO-DPMNE held a protest in front of the prison in Shuto Orizari demanding freedom for the detained MPs including others, against whom the Basic Public Prosecution for fighting organized crime and corruption began an investigation for terrorism due to the violent attacks at the Parliament on the 27th of April. 'We gathered today to give support and...

Gruevski: The detention of MPs is a direct attack on the democracy

The former Prime Minister and party leader of VMRo-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, after the postponement of the hearing in the case of "Trajectory" said that with the detention for the 6 MPs "a direct attack on the democracy" has happened. He sent an appeal to the prosecutin, the court and especially to SDSM which, as he said, has put everthing...