Tag: SDSM

A number of gunfire shots, a scuffle with stones and bottles hurled, as well as verbal and physical violence took place yesterday evening during the protest in the capital Skopje against the European proposal for the start of the negotiations for North Macedonia's EU membership. The opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski accused that there was a police set-up and an attempt...

The anti-EU protest in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, that are openly supported by the opposition parties VMRO-DPMNE and Levica, will continue today, starting from the street in front of the Government and will continue across the Goce Delchev Bridge toward Mavrovka, then to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ministry and will end in front of the Parliament. The...

Today marks the 5th anniversary since the "Bloody Thursday", or the rampage in the Parliament of Macedonia (Now: North Macedonia) that occurred on the 27th of April 2017 when a group of people, including members of the security services, stormed the Parliament under the dictate of the then ruling party VMRO-DPMNE wanting to prevent a peaceful transfer of power. It...

The news of the resignation of the prime minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, both from the government and from the helm of his SDSM political party has been broadcasted by the most influential international news agencies and media around the world. Zaev yesterday evening, just a few hours after the runoff local elections in North Macedonia, which brought a...

Zoran Zaev, the incumbent prime minister of North Macedonia yesterday in a late night press conference resigned from his prime ministerial post and also from the post of the president of the SDSM political party, after the defeat of his party in the second round of the local elections. However, he remains adamant that early parliamentary elections are not...

North Macedonia's Prime Minister and SDSM's President Zoran Zaev said today that the current SDSM's Vice president Radmila Shekerinska didn't resign from the party posts, but that she has no intention to run for a third mandate as the party's Vice president. "I respect her decision, she has merits for our country's accession into NATO, for the EU's candidate status...

During the Leaders' meeting yesterday between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the opposition party's leader Hristijan Mickoski, it was agreed that the census in North Macedonia will be postponed from April to September, i.e between the 5th and 30th of September this year. This is the key issue that the leaders of the biggest political parties have agreed upon. VMRO-DPMNE...

After four months in "the parliamentary labyrinths", Government's draft law for taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for construction of two Bus Rapid Transit lines in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, yesterday finally passed through the Financing and Budget Committee's filters. The Government finalized the draft-law for rapid bus transit (RBT) in mid-November...

Opposition party VMRO-DPMNE announced it will not recognize the results from the census in North Macedonia if it is implemented according to the draft law for the census that entered the parliament today. Party's president Hristijan Mickoski announced during a press conference that the party will start with collecting signatures for the adoption of a new draft law that will...

A day after it was announced that a coalition agreement was reached between SDSM and DUI regarding the new government, the political parties have announced the names of the officials that will take over the ministerial positions. As was announced by Zaev, he will be the Prime Minister in the next four years, while Artan Grubi will be the...

There was a low voter turnout in Skopje in the parliamentary elections in North Macedonia that took place on the 15th of July, but also a narrow election race between the two main competitors - the SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE-led coalitions. Is it because of the dissatisfaction with the political parties' work or the fear of catching COVID-19? These are...

According to unofficial results by the State Election Commission (SEC), in the early parliamentary elections that took place yesterday, the "Mozheme" (We Can) coalition, led by SDSM and Besa won 46 MP seats in the parliament of North Macedonia and is followed by the opposition coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE, which won 44 MP seats. DUI won 15 seats, the...

SDSM, a ruling political party, called North Macedonia’s Election Commission (SEC) go correct its errors and present truthful electoral results to the public. “According to the results from the Electoral computer center of SDSM, the advantage of the coalition “Mozheme” (We Can) is at least three MP seats, while the data presented by SEC contains clear discrepancies and mistakes which...

At around 2 a.m, SDSM's President Zoran Zaev, held a press conference and announced that the "Mozheme" (We Can) coalition has a "convincing and stable advantage of more than three seats over VMRO-DPMNE". He said there is a possibility for that difference to increase either by one or two seats more. "The people's will was confirmed. We are winning. The...

The two biggest political parties in North Macedonia give similar promises concerning the development of the infrastructure in the next four years if they are given the mandate by the citizens to form the new government. The coalitions "Mozheme" (We Can), led by SDSM and "Obnova za Makedonija" (Renewal for Macedonia) led by VMRO-DPMNE put a stress on the...

The media and the self-regulation, the threats and lawsuits that the journalists face, the fake news, media literacy, and the financial support for the media are all present in the electoral manifestos of two of the biggest political parties that will be participating in North Macedonia's parliamentary elections on the 15th of July. In VMRO-DPMNE's electoral manifesto titled "Renewal of...

The leaders of the two biggest political parties in North Macedonia, SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski, have finally managed to reach an agreement regarding the date of the parliamentary elections. The voting will take place on the 15th of July. In a press conference Zaev said that the state and the people have to be saved...

Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Mila Carovska, Minister for Information Society and Administration, Damjan Manchevski, and the National Coordinator for Strategic Communications Marjan Zabrchanec are in self-isolation after contact with SDSM's Vice President Muhamed Zekiri. Even though all protocols were observed during the meetings, according to recommendations provided by epidemiologists, they will self-isolate themselves. Since Zekiri participated in a talk...

Η αβεβαιότητα σχετικά με την ανακοίνωση των εκλογών την προηγούμενη βδομάδα, αναζωπύρωσε και πάλι το κλίμα της μακεδονικής πολιτικής σκηνής. Ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός και ηγέτης του SDSM, Ζόραν Ζάεβ, πρόσφατα (03.02.2020) ανακοίνωσε ότι υπάρχει η πιθανότητα αναβολής των πρόωρων κοινοβουλευτικών εκλογών που είχαν ανακοινωθεί για τις 12 Απριλίου, ενώ το μεγαλύτερο πολιτικό κόμμα της αντιπολίτευσης απάντησε με πρωτοβουλία διάλυσης...

Prime Minister and president of SDSM, Zoran Zaev confirmed that he will nominate Nina Angelovska , co-owner and director of ,,Grouper” for Finance Minister. “Nina Angleovska is one of the founders of “Grouper.mk”, winner of the "Forbes" award, who at 30 years has a PhD from Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (UKIM). I believe in her eight-year experience...