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The parties can not even agree about any experts to be selected for the SEC
The chances of Parliament tomorrow voting in members of the State Election Commission (SEC), created in the style of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement are decreasing, learns "Meta".
According to our information, the parties can not agree on the names of three experts to serve on the commission. Otherwise, under the contract, today they were going to...
Selmani: SDSM proposes solutions that lead to greater partisanship and politicization
The Association of Journalists of Macedonia is not at war with anyone. The problem is that SDSM does not like any of the AJM proposals for real reform of the media system, says the President of the Journalist Union Naser Selmani on a the question on whether a war had begun with the SDSM and AJM and for what...
Popovski: The end result will show who was for democracy, and who was not
Right at this moment, when we are under attack, we will be correct and will give it out, as negotiated in the working groups. The end result will show who was right, who is for democracy, and who is not, said Robert Popovski for “Meta”, who is the President of the working group of SDSM in the negotiations of the political...
SDSM and the AJM in a war of words over negotiations about the media
In the last few days, an open war has been declared, and the latest to join was the Association of Journalists of Macedonia (AJM) and the opposition SDSM, after the contemporary Association put all the political parties to put in the same basket as the culprits because they were not not invited to the negotiations on the media which...
Popovski: We are correcting the laws the AJM made with the Government
These are the negotiations of political parties included in the Przhino Agreement, because I see no sense in it to include non-government organizations and media associations, said Robert Popovski, a member of the working group of SDSM in talks regarding the media sphere.
According to him, the journalists' associations should lobby political parties to advocate their interests, however, the political...
So far negotiations, tomorrow begins the implementation of the Przhino Agreement
After weeks of negotiations, the political parties, all signatories to the Przhino Agreement, in the early hours on Friday morning they reached an agreement on all matters from the agreement of June the 2nd and July the 15th, which should be applied tomorrow.
Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci with their teams have agreed on the Electoral...
Deadlines have begun for elections: What awaits us until April?
The leaders of the four political parties, all signatory to the Przhino Agreement, this morning reached an agreement on the Law on Government and the Law on the “Bombs".
Therefore, the deadlines have begun for early parliamentary elections, scheduled for April 24, 2016.
On Monday:
The new Ministers and Deputy Ministers from SDSM will officially be elected into the Government.
January 1, 2016:
The...
The parties reached an agreement, the new Minister of Interior is Oliver Spasovski
The leaders of the four political parties, all signatories of the Przhino Agreement Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci, after many hours, the negotiations prevailed and reached an agreement on the Law on Government and the Law on the "Bombs".
The new Minister of Interior, as agreed, will be SDSM Secretary General, Oliver Spasovski, and in the...
The parties are playing a high-powered blame game
After a day of silence after the statement of the Ambassadors in Macedonia sent a message to the political parties for the immediate implementation of the Przhino Agreement. Today, participants from the working groups again started accusing each other of violating the agreement.
Antonio Milososki of the VMRO-DPMNE before the MPs Clubhouse in Skopje accused SDSM of
“deepening the political crisis,...
Vanhoutte gave the parties a new draft law on the authorities of the Ministers
The facilitator in the negotiations of the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement, Peter Vanhoutte, submitted a new draft law on the powers of Ministers and Deputy ministers for the new joint Interim Government. The proposal was transferred from previous talks between the parties, and primarily concerns the credentials the new Interior Minister would need to have.
It was...
Ambassadors declare: VMRO-DPMNE should respect the Przhino Agreement, SDSM should not publish anymore “Bombs”
The Ambassadors of the US, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union stood before the Government today and read a joint statement on the political crisis in the country and the Przhno Agreement, which urged VMRO-DPMNE to honour its obligations which they accepted in Przhino and as for SDSM to continue to fulfil their obligations under the contract,...
Party leaders have agreed to continue negotiations
After two and a half hours of negotiations, the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI, and DPA Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti and Menduh Thaci agreed that talks on the Przhino Agreement will resume tomorrow with bilateral meetings.
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte said he expects negotiations next week to intensify.
“We agreed to continue negotiations, we expect them to intensify and to...
“Brima Gallup”: VMRO has double the advantage than SDSM
According to data from the public opinion research agency "Brima Gallup", the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE has twice the support of the opposition SDSM.
For Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE 23.5 percent of the population will vote for them ,while the opposition SDSM has 12.4 percent. DUI takes third place with 7.6 percent of support, and in fourth place is the DPA with 3.5...
Vanhoutte: If there is no agreement over SEC by November, elections in April are almost impossible
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte said today that if no agreements are made on the details of the functioning of the State Election Commission by the beginning of November, elections in April are almost impossible.
He says that now we now need to ask whether the political parties want to reach a full agreement, and according to him, there are obstructions...
All deadlines missed, and no agreements made
Political parties last night tried to reach an agreement on the matter of the choice of Ministers and Law on the "bombs". The last deadline was missed of the Przhino Agreement, which expired on the 20th of October.
It's been reported that, SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE stuck to their of their demands. The ruling party wants the new ministers to be...
After Hahn meets with Zaev, the meeting of leaders begins
The SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, arrived at a meeting with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy, Johannes Hahn. He was by accompanied by Radmila Sekerinska, Renata Deskovska, Damijan Manchevski and Oliver Spasovski.
Earlier, Commissioner Hahn met with the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti.
Accompanying the Prime Minister were Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Popovski, Minister...
A day of political decisions, visits, meetings and laws – are 24 hours enough?
Almost all the events that brought tension on to the political scene last week will stream into the of tomorrow's agenda.
The visit of the High Commissioner for the EU Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations , Johannes Hahn. Although there hasn't been an official statement of Mr Hahns scheduled meetings whilst he is in Macedonia, however he will certainly meet with the heads...
Electoral laws agreed upon, Parliament will vote tomorrow
After 15 hours of talks, working groups from the parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement this morning reached an agreement on electoral laws, "Meta"has learnt.
The agreement of the manner of voting in SEC, the voting of the Diaspora and the clearing up of the electoral roll has now been settled.
SEC members would be elected by the formula 3...
Vanhoutte: Parties on the right track to reach an agreement on the electoral law
Belgian expert Peter Vanhoutte said that the parties were on the right track to reach an agreement on the electoral law, where he expressed his satisfaction.
However, he said the party, without specifying which one, abandoned the negotiations because of non-compliance for a Special Prosecutor.
SDSM Secretary General Oliver Spasovski before the MPs Clubhouse where talks were being held with working...
Peter Vanhoutte: I am an optimist
The Bilateral meeting with MP Artan Grubi from DUI, and Belgian facilitator, Peter Vanhoutte came to an end.
They both declined to make a statement, although Mr Vanhoutte Van said shortly he is optimistic, but declined to comment on anything else
The Belgian expert will meet with representatives from SDSM at 16:00 pm.
