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“What elections? Are you joking?” – Ahmeti tells Vienna’s “Standard”
"What elections? Are you joking?" This was the reaction of the leader of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), Ali Ahmeti, when he answered the first question in an interview with the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard" about the elections.
The DUI’s response explains the parties position on meeting all the criteria, according to them, the credibility of the elections has to...
What will the Vienna meeting bring? Will it secure elections on June 5 or another postponement?
Following President Gjorge Ivanov decision to pardon a large number of politicians, sparking mass protests, the International Community has taken a decisive step to calm the situation. The latest information is that on Friday in Vienna the leaders of the four biggest parties in Macedonia are due to come together and meet.
The announcement of the meeting comes after a...
Meeting of Leaders on Friday in Vienna?
The International Community are planning a meeting of leaders this Friday in Vienna with the four biggest parties in Macedonia, reports "Alsat - M".
The parties were apparently formally invited by the three MEPs involved in achieving and implementing the Przino Agreement, Ivo Vajgl, Eduard Kukan and Richard Howitt.
As reported by on television in Vienna, the meeting will also be...
Hahn calls upon parties and citizens to refrain from violence
After a second day of protests, and tonight's violence against the decision of President Gjorge Ivanov to pardon politicians, the Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn wrote on his "Twitter" account that citizens should be reasonable and refrain from violence.
"Call on all political parties and reasonable citizens to refrain from violent actions. The crisis can be...
VMRO-DPMNE will present their accountability report at “Jane Sandanski” Sports Hall
The ruling party, the VMRO-DPMNE today in the sports center "Jane Sandanski" will present the most comprehensive report for accountability, things the party have realized in the past ten years, said a statement from the party.
"This report contains more than 3,500 completed projects, measures and reforms, all in the interest of citizens. The report will be a kind of review...
Half a million questionable voters on the electoral register?
Exactly 495,258 voters have been found to be questionable and need to subjected to additional verification, it says in a report after data was cross checked by the Interior Ministry and ten other institutions, which “Telma” managed to get a copy of the report.
More than 190,000 were found to be fictitious voters, according to the report, it is the voters...
Urgent leaders’ meeting called before announcement of assessment for conditions concenring elections
The leaders of the four political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, have gathered at the MPs Clubhouse where they have scheduled an urgent leadership meeting for 15:00.
Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci at the meeting will be presented with the assessment by the European Union and the United States concerning the conditions for fair and...
Gruevski calls upon all VMRO-DPMNE officials not to intimidate voters
I encourage all VMRO-DPMNE officials and call upon them, not to even think about putting pressure or intimidating voters, and I encourage them to send written instructions to their institutions in the same direction, said the President of the ruling party, Nikola Gruevski in an interview with the portal "Telegraf".
“I want to remind everyone that VMRO-DPMNE has changed the...
Negotiations over the media have failed – Parties could not come to an agreement
Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte late tonight confirmed that the parties signatories of the Przhino Agreement had not reached an agreement on the matter of media regulation.
“We've had intensive negotiations for two days and all I can confirm now is that a deal has not been reached”, said Mr Vanhouttte.
When asked who is to blame for the breakdown of the...
Zaev on “Al-Jazeera”: Elections should be held in the beginning of summer
The President of SDSM Zoran Zaev in an interview with "Al Jazeera, Balkan" said that there was no chance that the opposition will participate in elections on April 24.
“There are two key reasons for this announcement. Firstly the electoral list has not been cleansed and on the list you can find dead voters or voters who have been reported...
Are VMRO-DPMNE giving up on officials mentioned in Zaev’s “bombs”?
Officials from VMRO-DPMNE who were mentioned in the "bombs" of SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, have no chance of finding themselves on parliamentary lists, say the people of Bitola who move in political circles.
Zoran Ilioski who is currently a MP and member of the Executive Committee of VMRO-DPMNE, who was heard in one of the "bombs" about Bitola, denied that such choice...
Negotiations over the media between working groups have come to a standstill, again
Negotiations over the media between the working groups of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, again have come to a standstill after yesterday's bilateral meetings with Belgian mediator Peter Vanhoutte. Negotiators have restated their firm stances and have made clear that they do not intend to deviate from them. A new meeting has not yet been scheduled and...
Vanhoutte from Brussels will bring new draft-laws on the media
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte is expected to submit a new draft-law on the media tomorrow, which will then be presented to all political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement. According to our sources, the mediator was in Brussels at the weekend where he attended a consultation meeting concerning developments in Macedonia. Scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, at the...
VMRO-DPMNE submit their final proposals, SDSM completely rejects them
Yesterday VMRO-DPMNE submitted their final proposals to the other signatories of the Przhino Agreement, proposals for reform within the media "Meta" has learnt. We also learned that SDSM found their proposals completely and totally unacceptable.
The meeting between the working groups which was scheduled for yesterday afternoon was postponed for today. They are expected to be discussing the methodology for...
Survey: VMRO-DPMNE are ahead in the polls by 6.4 percent infront of SDSM
If elections were held now, VMRO-DPMNE would win with 29.9 percent of the vote, while SDSM would receive 23.5 percent of the vote. 10.1 percent would vote for DUI and 4.3 percent for DPA, a telephone survey showed coordinated by the agency “Faktor Plus Adria” from Belgrade, which was carried out from January 15th - 24th on 1,250 respondents.
According...
Hahn has an optimistic agenda: To set the election date, Gruevski’s resignation, the media …
The European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn is optimistic that the crisis in Macedonia will be "definitely" resolved.
In his blog on January the 1st he wrote:
“I hope, that based on our great efforts, it will also be possible to overcome definitely the political crisis in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.
The European Commission confirmed that...
Who will replace Gruevski? – Jolevski, Besimi or Poposki
There has been little speculation about who is the most serious candidate to replace Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski although deadlines for his replacement has already begun to flow. In the Przhino Agreement it states that the Prime Minister has to step down 100 days before the parliamentary elections which are to be held on April 24, 2016, and the new...
Political parties have a deadline until Monday to propose solutions regarding the media
Today working groups will not be having a meeting regarding the media. On the proposal of the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte, political parties should propose possible solutions that they can present on Monday. Yesterday's meeting of representatives of the parties in the MPs Clubhouse, only lasted an hour.
On Monday, the parties should present their opinions on this matter, particularly...
The deadlines are approaching: Gruevski has 3 days left as Prime Minister in full capacity
The media and the SEC are the last points in the Przhino Agreement to be addressed before the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resigns and the VMRO-DPMNE appoints a new candidate for the position.
In the Przhino Agreement it clearly stipulates that the Prime Minister should step down 100 days before parliamentary elections, which will be held on April 24, 2016,...
Negotiations continue for the media today, first up is the MRT
Political parties have continued the talks on the media in the MPs Clubhouse in Skopje. According to reports, today they will discuss reforms at the Macedonian Radio Television MRT.
They, in turn, yesterday again did not make any progress on disputable matters, "Meta" has learnt.
According to our information, negotiators discussed the Media Agency, but did not reach a solution.
Yesterday VMRO-DPMNE...
