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Hundreds of VMRO-DPMNE's members and sympathizers protested this evening in front of the Ministry of Justice demanding freedom and amnesty for the people in detention for the violent attacks at the Parliament of the 27th of April. Among the people taken in detention are the MPs Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Sasho Vasilevski, Zaklina Peshevska, Johan Tarchulovski and Ljupco...

After today's testomonies, the Criminal Court ruled that MPs Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Saso Vasilevsk be taken into custody and detained. Those MPs are suspected of the violence in Parliament on April 27th. Their colleagues, Žaklina Peshevska, Johan Tarculovski and Ljupco Dimovski, received a measure of house arrest. Mukoski, Arnaudov and Vasilevski were accompanied by police escorts from the...

The Criminal Court in Skopje has received the announcement from the Parliament about the abolished immunity for the six MPs, for whom the Prosecution for fighting organized crime and corruption is demanding a detention, and has submitted it to the competent judges, informed the court. The court didn't reveal when the MPs will be questioned by the court and...

MP from VMRO-DPMNE, Ilija Dimovski, said that the party's position in support of government reforms for the plan "3-6-9" has changed, TV “Alsat-M” reports. Dimovski added that this recent change was affected by recent developments, ie the annulment of the immunity of the six MPs from VMRO-DPMNE. "SDSM showed that there is no need for opposition in Parliament. From now on...

On Thursday, at a plenary session, Parliament decided to approve the request from the Skopje Basic Court to revoke the immunity and to detain MPs Krsto Mukovski, Ljuben Arnaudov, Johan Tarculovski, Sašo Vasilevski, Ljupco Dimovski and Žaklina Peshevska, due to their participation in the violence that occurred on April 27th, this year, in Parliament. Every MP was voted for separately, and...

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...

President Gjorge Ivanov, in his evening speech, said that responsibility must be held for the violent events of April 27th of this year, however, that human rights and the presumption of innocence until proven guilty must be respected. Ivanov repeated that, as before and now, he still supports the initiative "For a United Macedonia", which, as he said, is "made...

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...

Early this morning, Mitko Chavkov, former director of the Public Security Bureau at the Ministry of Interior, was taken into custody after the Public Prosecution issued a warrant, “Meta” learned from sources within the investigation. His detainment is within the framework of the investigation into the violence that occurred on April 27th, this year, in Parliament. At the time, Mr...

At today's continuation of the 15th session, MPs, with 66 votes in “favor” and 41 “against”, gave their permission for the use of languages to go through a second reading with the competent commissions. When the voting started, from the benches of VMRO-DPMNE's parliamentary groups, shouts could be heard, chanting "against, against". Before the vote, the coordinator of the first parliamentary...

After the break at 15:00, Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi, interrupted the 15th session while the Law on the Use of Languages was being discussed, and therefore terminated the work of the Parliament until local elections on October 15th. Xhaferi said he is fulfilling the promise that during the election campaign, which begins on Monday, Parliament will not work to prevent...

A while ago, with 64 votes in favor, and 0 votes against and abstentions, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia dismissed Mr. Marko Zvrlevski from the position as General Attorney of the Republic of Macedonia. Just before the vote, Ilija Dimovski said that MPs from VMRO-DPMNE would not participate and vote, and repeated that the whole procedure was illegal...

Instead of starting at 11h, as was announced this morning by the Parliament's press service, the first plenary session will start today at 15h. According to the Parliament's latest press release, the agenda will not be changed - what will happen first is the continuation of the 8th session, on which schedule are 12 points, among which is the...

In the Parliament hall, after 19:00pm emotions became high, when MPs from VMRO-DPMNE gathered around the rostrum opposing the Parliament Speaker, while they were shouting and creating chaos, Ilija Dimovski from VMRO-DPMNE took the card from the Paliament Speaker, then he called security, where most of all the present MPs from the opposition were gathered around the rostrum. Before all...

The members of the State Committee for Corruption Prevention will return to work on Monday, as on Sunday their vacation ends, as was confirmed by the Committee for Meta. The Anti-Corruption Committee was at the center of political clashes when VMRO-DPMNE's MPs have filed a request from DKSK to state its opinion. The MPs claim that the parliamentary session...

In Parliament today, MPs from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE announced that they will be filing a vote of no confidence against the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikola Dimitrov. At a press conference, Antonio Milososki said that there were more reasons for a vote of no confidence for Nikola Dimitrov. He first called the signing of the agreement with Bulgaria for good...

MPs from VMRO-DPMNE called on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Minister of Labour and Social Policy Mila Carovska to attend today's public debate on the government's strategy and action plan for migrants, refugees and foreigners, 2017-2027, at the Commission's session for Labour and Social Policy. "We invite Zaev and Carovska to explain and justify their strong support for the strategy...

Today, at the press centre in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, MP and Coordinator of SDSM, Tomislav Tuntev said that MPs from the parliamentary majority had agreed not to go on vacations until the discussion on the dismissal of the Attorney General, Marko Zvrlevski ends. Tuntev announced that there will be meetings in Parliament during the upcoming weekend,...

With 92 votes "for" and without any "against" or withhold, this afternoon the Parliament has voted for the final report on the implementation of the budget for 2016. During the marathon length eight session, the MPs of the ruling party were often absent in the hall and the VMRO-DPMNE's MPs and the Coalition were exchanging retorts mainly with their party...