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The new parliament of North Macedonia constituted

With 116 votes in favor, none against or abstained, the mandates of 120 new MPs were verified today and North Macedonia got the new parliament. In the Grand Dome Hall of the Parliament at noon, with the Macedonian national anthem, the first session of the new parliamentary composition started. Out of 120 MPs, 117 attended the session. It was presided...

Macedonian Parliament dissolves and the snap parliamentary elections will take place on the 12th of April

The Parliament has unanimously voted in favor of dissolving the Parliament ahead of the announced snap parliamentary elections scheduled for the 12th of April. Previously, the MPs adopted the Law on Public Prosecution in a second attempt. Before the implementation of the voting for which 80 votes were secured, there was one voting, when 74 MPs voted in favor of...

In the last 5 years, Macedonian MPs have collected 3 million euros for traveling costs

Macedonian MPs have collected 3 million euros during the period between 2015 and 2019, revealed the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC). The annual sum has decreased from 770.000 euros in 2015 to 390.000 euros last year, mainly due to informing on part of the media and the pressure from the general public, said the SCPC's President Biljana...

Macedonian President Pendarovski asks the next government to implement the venting process in the judiciary, the prosecution but firstly among the politicians

ПPresident Stevo Pendarovski in his first annual addressing at the parliament stressed that it is extremely important to organize fair and democratic elections this spring. "The forthcoming parliamentary elections, simply cannot be under the level of the presidential elections according to two essential components: firstly, the democratic ambiance with free media and employees in the administration freed from pressures...

Over 6000 amendments filed for changes in the Election Code for a single electoral unit and open lists

For the proposed changes in the Election Code over 6000 amendments were filed. The amendments were filed by 15 MPs of minor parties that propose a single electoral unit and open lists. During today's parliamentary session two draft laws and amendments of the Electoral Code were proposed. The first draft law predicts a change of the electoral model from 6...

Group of MPs started an initiative for a single-member district

An initiative for a single constituency was formed at the Parliament that consists of 12 MPs from 10 parties and a single independent MP. During the meeting at the parliamentary MP club, that occurred on the 11th of September 2019, a group consisting of MPs who strive for a proportionate electoral model with one single-member district was formed....

Sitistas and Daniilidis, “Ellinika Hoaxes”: The fake news is a “bomb” in the foundation of democracy

Nikos Kokalias (photographer) and „Kathimerini“
Theodoros Daniilidis is the founder, and Thanos Sitistas is the editor of “Ellinika Hoaxes”, the most famous website in Greece that debunks disinformation and fake news. It has been doing that in the past six years, since 2013. In the interview for “Meta.mk”, Daniilidis and Sitistas say that the Greeks are pretty prone to believe fake news, but also...

Majority of citizens dissatisfied with government’s work

Majority of citizens gave a negative remark for the government's work for the past two years in general including some priority areas, such as reforms and fight against corruption and crime, show the results of the new research of public opinion that was implemented by "M-Prospekt" agency from Skopje. The poll that was carried out with a national representative specimen...

Xhaferi notified the Commission about Gruevski’s absence in the past 6 months

The President of the Parliament Talat Xhaferi has officially notified the Committee on Rules of Procedure, Mandatory - Immunity Issues that the runaway MP Nikola Gruevski is unjustifiably absent from his working place as an MP at the Parliament. After an official notification, the President of the Committee, Pavle Bogoevski will have to call for a session where the cancelation...

Zaev: Congratulations my friend Alexis Tsipras, together with our peoples we reached a historic victory

Congratulations my friend Alexis Tsipras, together with our peoples we reached a historic victory, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook page, regarding the ratification of the Prespa Agreement at the Greek Parliament. "Long live the Prespa Agreement! For eternal peace and progress of the Balkans and in Europe!" wrote Zaev in his address. With 153 MPs in favor, today...

New amendments to Constitution published in the “Official Gazette”

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 Prespa Agreement comes into force,...

16 civic organizations demand an urgent withdrawal of the proposed law amendments in the Criminal Code

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 by SPO to give...

Opposition MPs who voted for constitutional changes deny Lavrov’s claims

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 MPs from the opposition in...

Zaev: Four amendments to the Constitution, Ohrid Agreement will be added in the Preamble

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 36, where there is a...

Hahn is convinced that all MPs are aware of the great opportunity and responsibility

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 will vote on the historic...

VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs rejected the debate and will vote against the constitutional amendments

VMRO-DPMNE's MPs and the coalition members "For Better Macedonia" today at a joint coordination have decided to give up on the debate that is happening at the Parliament, announced the party. "The MP group concludes that all has been said and there is any necessity for a further debate regarding the proposed constitutional changes and that the Prespa Agreement was...

GRECO: Macedonia has made no progress in preventing corruption among MPs and judges

In its Second Compliance report, published today, GRECO (Group of States against Corruption), an organization which operates within the Council of Europe said that "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has not made significant progress in implementing anti-corruption recommendations among members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. " The Compliance Report was made according to the Situation Report with additional information...

Zaev calls leadership meeting at MP’s Club, tomorrow at 18 o’clock

Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, announced a leadership meeting for tomorrow in the Club of Deputies at 6 pm, the Government has announced. "Due to this exceptional political moment that requires the widening of the institutional framework of leadership meetings, this meeting will be held using the format 1 + 1 (the...

Manchevski: The opposition has been filibustering the media laws for four months

The Minister of Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, today at a press conference in the Government asked the Parliamentary Committee on Transport, Communications and Environment, chaired by VMRO-DPMNE, to work continuously on a daily basis, until the amendment debate on the Draft Law on Audio and Audiovisual Media Services has ended. He said that the opposition should think about...

The parliamentary whips from VMRO and SDSM will discuss future activities

The coordinators of VMRO-DPMNE's and SDSM's groups of MPs will have a meeting today where they will discuss the future functioning of the Parliament, informs VMRO-DPMNE. "The government's responsibility i.e. the majority of SDSM is to secure a normal functioning of the Parliament. VMRO-DPMNE holds the opinion that the Republic of Macedonia can advance only if the Parliament can...