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Zernovski is withdrawing, SDSM has its own candidate for Centar
The current candidate for a mayor at the municipality of Centar, Andrej Zernovski, will withdraw his candidacy for a second mandate in the forthcoming local elections, announced Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in the TV show "Otvoreno" on "TV 24."
-We had an excellent cooperation with Andrej Zernovski.We have agreed to be an active participant in the central authorities and with...
VMRO-DPMNE has left the hall when the bill for increasing of pensions didn’t pass
At today's plenary session, the parliamentary majority has rejected the proposal submitted by VMRO-DPMNE's MPs for passing a Law for increasing the pensions for 5%, starting from the 1st of January, next year.
As soon as this happened, VMRO-DPMNE's MPs, as a sign of revolt, abandoned the hall.
Ilija Dimovski, the coordinator of one of the MP groups of...
The debate at the Parliament for the Law for the use of languages is set to begin
The Parliamentary Commission for European Affairs will set to begin the debate today on the Law for the use of languages. The Law, which stipulates a wider use of the Albanian language has a "European flag" which means it will be passed in a short procedure.
It's one of the key laws of the ruling coalition which was part...
VMRO-DPMNE will not support the election of a new Attorney General
VMRO-DPMNE will not support the election of a new General Attorney because it is contrary to Article 8a of the Electoral Code and at today's session, they will oppose such an initiative by SDSM, said MP Ilija Dimovski regarding the announcement for the election of a new Gernal Attorney.
Dimovski announced that today the parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE will submit...
Zaev: VMRO-DPMNE is manipulating the situation over flats for refugees as they fear defeat in the upcoming local elections
Referendums from several municipalities for the construction of apartments for refugees announced on the same day as the local elections, is a political manipulation, whose aim is to distract citizens' attention ahead of the elections, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, in response to a journalist’s question during his visit to Veles.
“Macedonia is not such a good country for refugees...
In Aračinovo, SDSM have nominated Militie Halimi to run for mayor
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, during his visit to Aračinovo on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, announced that, Militie Halimi will be running for mayor for SDSM in the upcoming local elections.
“In Aračinovo, from SDSM, we have decided on a candidate who is respected in this community. That candidate is an Albanian woman, Militie Halimi, who, with her family are from...
The verdicts against Risteski and Panov are a proof of VMRO-DPMNE’s corruptive rule
The verdicts against the mayors from the ranks of VMRO-DPMNE, Marjan Risteski and Aleksandar Panov, are the first institutionally confirmed evidence for the decade-long criminal, corruptive, and wasteful rule of VMRO-DPMNE on every level of governance said SDSM's morning press release.
The press release also said that "VMRO-DPMNE already has two mayors that are charged with irresponsible governance and...
City of Skopje is preparing to give another 3.5 million euros for the Panoramic Wheel
With the budget rebalance of the City of Skopje, another 3.5 million euros are planned as alleged subsidies to the Public Transport Company, but that money will end up for the Panorama Wheel, said Dragi Davcevski, SDSM’s coordinator for Consultancy Group and the Coalition Council of the City of Skopje, as well.
He stressed that the Consultancy Group that he...
Tuntev: This resembles the occurrences on the 27th of April and we shall not participate in the burlesque with Zvrlevski
The coordinator of SDSM's MP group, Tomislav Tuntev, during today's continuation of the parliamentary session for dismissal of the state public prosecutor, Marko Zvrlevski has said that what VMRO-DPMNE is doing, very much "resembles the occurrences in April" alluding to the outbreak of violence on the 27th of April during the election of the president of the Parliament.
Tuntev...
Xhaferi: As long as we have work to do we will have to keep on working and we shall continue tomorrow
The President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi didn't accept the request from the coordinator of one of VMRO-DPMNE's 10 MP groups, Ilija Dimovski, for the session for the dismissal of the state Public Prosecutor Marko Zvrlevski to continue on Monday and has set the continuation of the discussion for tomorrow starting at 11 h.
Today's continuation of the...
Line 4, added to the Electoral Code in Przino, is holding up the dismissal of Zvrlevski
The provision of Article 8-a of the Electoral Code, which VMRO-DPMNE requested an opinion from the State Commission for Preventing Corruption (SCPC), regarding the parliamentary debate on the dismissal of the Attorney General, Marko Zvrlevski, was added to the Electoral Code in accordance with the Przino Agreement, which was signed to solve the political crisis in 2015 by SDSM,...
VMRO-DPMNE accused Spasovski and SDSM for employing party personnel at MoI
The opposition party VMRO-DPMNE has accused SDSM and the Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, that are causing chaos and are turning the Ministry of Interior into a political branch.
At a press conference held at the party's headquarters, VMRO-DPMNE's Sasho Pavlovski announced that Spasovski has been hiring personnel from SDSM's ranks and is degrading professionals.
-According to our information,...
SDSM: The refugee strategy is a continuation of the one that was adopted in 2008
“Citizens can remain calm. Macedonia has been declared a transit country for refugees, and with the adoption of the strategy, international standards and the Convention on the Rights of Refugees have been respected, which Macedonia has ratified”, said SDSM, in response to a statement by VMRO-DPMNE.
The party says it has a document that serves as a road-map and has...
Mickoski: Zaev gave Bulgaria an opportunity to block the option of opening new chapters in the negotiations
With the Treaty for good neighborliness, Bulgaria will have an opportunity to reassess Macedonia's behavior along its road towards the European Union as Zaev has accepted that Bulgaria will not to allow opening of any chapter in the membership negotiations if any of its goals and positions aren't met, said today the General Secretary of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. He...
Today the Commission of Finance and Budget will continue to discuss the budget revision
Today at 10:30am, the Commission for Finance and Budget will have the fifth session discussing the Government's proposed budget revision for 2017.
Prior to the beginning of the discussion, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM were still having the same party views regarding the budget revision. VMRO-DPMNE said that "SDS are continuously and shamelessly putting citizens in debt", SDSM said again that "the...
VMRO DPMNE: SPO’s requests for custody and taking away the passports are a political showdown
VMRO DPMNE had two press conferences today and it described SPO’s requests for taking into custody VMRO-DPMNE’s leadership as a political effort for exerting pressure on the Appeal Court so it won’t cancel the decision for retention the passports that was a decision of a court of first instance.
-The decisions for retention of travel documents of part of...
VMRO-DPMNE: Connecting the murders at Smiljkovsko Lake with the work of the MOI is necrophilia
The opposition VMRO-DPMNE accused the Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski and SDSM that today’s briefing by the MOI, where invoices were presented, bills and data for the expenditure of the directors of the Administration for Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), the Public Safety Bureau (BJB) and VMRO-DPMNE ministers, that when in power, “were dealing with last year’s snow”.
“SDS has been...
VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev’s silence raises doubts as to whether he is selling out the country
Zaev’s non-transparent approach towards the whole process of negotiations and his silence regarding the insults towards Macedonia by Bozhidar Dimitrov, the director of the Bulgaria's Institute of National History, who said that the upcoming agreement between the two countries would mean an end to Macedonianism and that the Macedonian language is a Bulgarian dialect. It shows that Zaev is...
With 10 parliamentary groups, VMRO-DPMNE puts an end to “constructiveness and pliability”
"Our constructiveness in our actions that some have called pliable, ends today”, said the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, last week after 17 charges brought against him by the Special Prosecutor's Office and other high-ranking officials of VMRO-DPMNE.
Today, MPs from VMRO-DPMNE in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia formed ten parliamentary groups and started blocking the work of...
VMRO-DPMNE calls on MANU to explain the agreement with Bulgaria
The opposition VMRO-DPMNE, in their regular morning press release called on the Macedonian Academy of Science and Art (MANU) to explain the good neighbourly relations agreement, which Prime Minister Zoran Zaev intends to sign with Bulgaria.
“MANU must make their position clear on the agreement Zaev intends to sign with Bulgaria. MANU’s silence on such essential issues opens up space...
