Tag: SDSM

Neither the draft law proposed by SDSM is not acceptable to the Association of Journalists of Macedonia. According to the President of the AJM Naser Selmani, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM are undermining the proposal of the Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte in a join effort to reform the media system. On his Facebook profile wrote that SDSM's amendments can be seen miles...

VMRO-DPMNE rejected the draft law on the media which SDSM submitted yesterday to the political parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement. According to Ilija Dimovski, a member of the negotiating team for VMRO-DPMNE, the law is unconstitutional, non-European and does not exist in any country in the world. “The draft-law submitted by SDSM wants to increase penalties for the media....

Today, the SDSM will submit their draft-laws on the media to all parties signatory to the Przhino Agreement. After which the working groups will meet to discuss the them. At present there is is still no scheduled date for a meeting between the negotiating teams, but a new round of talks are expected to be held no later than tomorrow. The...

Citizens are giving their support to SDSM to uphold the process of open and fair elections, Macedonia will receive a Government elected by the people, not by non-existent voters, the Government has to be recognized by all, with full legitimacy, said SDSM Secretary General and Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski while visiting the residents of Demir Hisar. “SDSM stands firmly...

“It's been nearly three months since the new train has worked, which Nikola Gruevski launched. The train has a problems travelling on the railway tracks as they are in a catastrophic state. We warned Mr Gruevski when he came to have his photograph taken in the train, promising miracles to the people, "said Blagoj Bočvarski, Chairman of the Committee...

What awaits us in the in the upcoming period, radicalization of the resistance or a new May the 17th, if the ruling coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE insists that elections are held on April 24th? If we were to judge by the statements of just some politicians, like Ljiljana Popovska and Stevo Pendarovski, one might say no, but after the announcement...

It must be made clear to the European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, that there can not be quality elections without equal opportunities for all political parties to equally participate in the electoral process, and for the citizens to be able to freely cast their vote, reacted SDSM to the Commissioner's statement for the Bulgarian...

VMRO-DPMNE proposed that the law for government and political advertising and a combined form for operations of MRTV, should be based on a Slovenian-German-Belgian model to regulate the media, and was discussed yesterday by working groups at the MPs Clubhouse "Meta" has learnt. According to our information, Nikola Todorov, who heads the working group of the ruling party, proposed that financing MRTV...

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...

Last night DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, through his "Facebook" profile welcomed the decision of the opposition SDSM to remain part of the process of resolving the country's political crisis through active participation in Parliament and in Government, as well as working groups to implement the Przhino Agreement. “I hope that in the coming days all political parties will contribute to...

SDSM should respect what was agreed at Przhino and agree to participate in the elections on April 24, urged the DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, through his Facebook profile. He calls upon the largest opposition party to remain committed to the implementation of the obligations of the Agreement. “Together, we agreed that elections will be held on April 24. SDSM should...

At the meeting of the Executive Board of SDSM, they unanimously decided that the SDSM finds it unacceptable to hold elections without a free media and without a renewed electoral roll. In such elections SDSM will not participate, the party announced. "With an electoral roll which is not renewed and they want to use the dark media "family" to save...

Despite the evidence from the "Putsch" case, Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva has requested from the court the cases on the murder of Martin Neskovski, and the case “Election Campaign” where Ljube Boskovski was sentenced, announced the Special Public Prosecutor (SPO) today. Janeva's office indicated that court did not appear to be cooperating, they did not want to submit the cases, but...

EU Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations , Johannes Hahn, arrived at the residence of the European Union in Przhino. He would not give a statement to the media, he only briefly said he hoped that the it would be a good day. “I have nothing to say at the moment. I can only tell you that I hope...

Any attempt to jeopardise the ultimate goal of the Przhino Agreement or more specifically the elections on April 24, is jeopardising the entire agreement and the only way out of this political crisis, says for "Meta" the Director of the Centre for VMRO-DPMNE, Ivo Koteski. Ivo Kotevski responded when he was asked to comment on today's statement by the...

The leader of SDSM will not confirm nor deny the speculations that parliamentary elections will be held in late June this year. In a statement to "Meta" he went as far to say that "we might conclude that September is an ideal date," but emphasized that there is still no agreement to move the elections, and said, that the decision...

MEP's Richard Howitt, Eduard Kukan and Ivo Vajgl on Monday will have separate meetings with the signatories of the Przhino Agreement, but it is still unknown whether a joint meeting will be held, "Meta" has learnt. The threesome, who together with Commissioner Johannes Hahn brokered the Przhino Agreement, will want to discuss with political leaders the full implementation of the agreement...

"Nobody knows anymore who is negotiating on behalf of the Republic of Macedonia!" Was SDSM's response regarding Ali Ahmeti's visit to Athens. “In "The truth about Macedonia" we heard that he is Gruevski's business partner. Now through party announcements we read that they are still coalition partners. This is dangerous and not serious behaviour for one of the most serious...

Ivo Koteski, spokesman for the VMRO-DPMNE told “Meta” that if elections are not held on April 24, then the Przhino Agreement does not apply, after the media had been reporting that there may be a possibility for elections to be moved to June 26. According to the media, talks with EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn could lead to moving the election...

SDSM registered a website www.zbogumnikola.com (which translates to FarewellNikola.com). The website counts the days to Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resignation, this information was reported today by the Deputy Minister of Information Society, Alexander Kiracovski. Kiracovski said that the SDSM applied to MARNET to register the website which should be called "Farewell Nikola". Three hours later they received information that the name...