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No agreement – Talks continue tomorrow
Today's negotiations over the cleansing of the electoral roll and reforms to the media between the working groups of the political parties and Ambassadors Aivo Orav and Jess Baily came to an end without an agreement.
US Ambassador, Jess Baily, said he was not disappointed because sometimes to reach an agreement, time is needed.
“We had a five-hour constructive debate and...
Zaev: SDSM are ready for elections, and I am ready to be the future Prime Minister
The Social Democratic Union of Macedonia are ready for elections, said the leader of the opposition party, Zoran Zaev in an interview with "Radio Free Europe" and added that if the people decide to give him their support, he would "certainly grab the honour" to be next Prime Minister of the country.
He says that about 65 percent of the...
Naumov: Most important thing is whether Stavreski started the procedure of issuing Eurobonds
The public finances are in a terrible state, and the question remains, what did Zoran Stavreski leave behind. The pressure from Nikola Gruevski, who leads the government, will be even bigger and I expect his same disastrous policy to continue, which means more loans and more borrowing - answered the President of the Finance Committee of the SDSM, Kire Naumov...
Brussels: We hope that parties will agree to meet this week
Brussels is hoping that Macedonian political party leaders will show initiative and convene a leaders' meeting where they can, hopefully, reach some kind of an agreement, whereby fair elections can be organized.
The European Commission said that they are in constant contact with all the concerned parties and are closely monitoring any developments in Macedonia.
"The EU delegation is in close contact...
Poposki: SDSM has to show that they’re serious about holding elections
It is encouraging that the SDSM finally realise that destructive politics is met with greater condemnation from the citizens, reacted Nikola Poposki today after the SDSM leader, Zoran Zaev’s press conference.
“It remains obvious that the party still has shown no capacity to get out of the agony they are in, and to finally start working constructively in politics, for...
SDSM: Under pressure from the citizens, Ivanov finally revokes all pardons
Under pressure from all open-minded citizens who have been fighting to restore freedom, democracy, and justice, the person Gjorge Ivanov has now completely annulled all of his shameful, illegal and unconstitutional pardons. This was the reaction today from the SDSM after President Ivanov fully withdrew all the pardons he had granted in April.
"The decision to grants those pardons was...
Shilegov: With a salary of 1400 euros, How did Gruevski “save” 120,000 euros in 1 year?
Nikola Gruevski who was recently pardoned, managed to save 10,000 euros every month, which in a whole year has made him 118,629 euros richer, stated SDSM spokesperson Petre Shilegov at today’s press conference.
He showed the surveyed lists of Gruevski’s finances from 2014 and 2015, which the Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission did not want release to the media last...
Parliament approves selective pardons
This afternoon Parliament expressly and without debate passed amendments to four laws, including the Law on Pardons, which will allow the President to withdraw the pardons for those who require it of him.
On the amendments to the Law on Pardons, 63 MPs voted "for" and none voted against.
At today's session, express procedures were adopted for the amendments to the...
Veljanoski sticks to his position, it is not constitutionally possible for Parliament to re-convene
Following a letter yesterday sent from the SEC to Veljanoski, where they informed him that in certain constituencies there were discrepancies of more than 5 percent of the number of voters.
According to the Speaker's Cabinet, the letter from the SEC was only an informative letter, and that Parliament has no obligation to take any steps or measures.
"Veljanoski 's position...
Koenders writes to all leaders: Minimum criteria for credible elections have not been met
The Dutch Foreign Minister, whose country holds the EU presidency, Bert Koenders, sent a letter to all the leaders of political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement, where he expressed serious concern about the situation in Macedonia and urgently requires a solution to solve the political crisis through the full implementation of the Agreement.
“As the Presidency of...
May – An eventful month, full of difficult ordeals and troubled times
May of 2015 proved an eventful month, full of difficult ordeals and troubled times.
In that month's 30 days, the armed conflict in Divo Naselje occurred, the resignations of three senior officials of the ruling party were submitted following the death of Martin Neshokovski, three leadership summits, a meeting in Strasbourg, a mass protest by the political opposition which was...
Veljanoski: It is not constitutionally possible to assemble Parliament
President of Parliament Trajko Veljanoski will not assemble parliament, which is one of the conditions for the SDSM to attend the leaders' meeting on Friday in Vienna.
"In connection to the SDSM leader, Zoran Zaev’s press conference, held on April 20, 2016, which, among other things, requested the convening of a plenary session of Parliament to postpone the elections of...
Zaev will only go to Vienna if the pardons are withdrawn and elections postponed
The SDSM leader Zoran Zaev at today's press conference said he will not go to the meeting in Vienna organized by EU Commissioner Johannes Hahn on Friday to find a solution out of the political crisis, unless two conditions are met.
“We respect the initiative made by the MEPs and Commissioner Hahn for organizing the meeting for the Przhino Agreement...
Zaev has called upon citizens not to particpate in illegitimate elections
The SDSM and its coalition partners have signed a platform for a democratic Macedonia, to restore freedom and democracy.
By signing the platform, the partners have committed themselves together with the SDSM to act without compromising, as they say, in defending justice, truth and the future. The parties say that the platform contains democratic principles in which they believe in,...
Today the SDSM and its partners will sign a platform for a democratic Macedonia
The SDSM and its coalition partners will sign a platform for a democratic Macedonia. The parties say, that by the signing of this ‘platform’, coalition partners are undertaking joint action and uncompromising action to defend the legal and constitutional functioning of the state.
The signing of the platform comes after yesterday's meeting of the leaders of the parties opposition coalition,...
The SDSM will not withdraw their members from the SEC
At a meeting between the SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and their coalition partners, they unanimously decided that the opposition will not withdraw their members from the State Election Commission.
“The SDSM and its partners are determined that elections on June 5 are not possible, nor will we participate in such irregular elections. However, the SDSM and its coalition partners will...
Mogherini: In the coming crucial weeks, political parties need to implement the Przhino Agreement
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy called on political parties in Macedonia to create conditions for credible elections.
"Following the latest developments in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in particular the preparations for the early parliamentary elections in June, I spoke this afternoon with the leader of the SDSM, Zoran...
SDSM are demanding an emergency session for their minister’s resignations to be taken into consideration
The Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group, the SDSM asked interim Prime Minister Dimitriev to pass the resignations of officials from the opposition to Parliament.
“Ministers and Deputy Ministers from the opposition resigned from Government today and I want to ask Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev to urgently submit the resignations to Parliament. We also request an emergency session in accordance with...
US Embassy tweeted, DUI changed its mind and will not vote for amendments to the LCP
The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) will not vote on amendments to the Law on Criminal Procedure (LCP) if a political consensus between the major political parties is not reached. This was announced by the Vice-President of Parliament Rafiz Aliti, therefore reducing the chances of these amendments being voted in Parliament before its dissolution. The DUI party said that...
The SEC will check 111,440 questionable voters, more than 62,000 remain to go through additional checks
The State Election Commission (SEC) yesterday decided to conduct a field check of 111,440 questionable voters.
An additional administrative check will be done on 62,837 people and if necessary, and this group of voters will go through a field check.
35,859 voters will go through an administrative data check who are believed to be most likely dead and for another 7345...
