Tag: Собрание

MPs in the absence of opposition began the debate on the proposal by VMRO-DPMNE and DUI to dissolve Parliament. Against the decision to put this item on the agenda were MP Pavle Trajanov and MP Ljiljana Popovska. Pavle Trajanov said that the decision goes against the Constitution and that such decisions should be decided together with all political parties, especially when...

The Speaker of Parliament Trajko Veljanoski, acknowledged the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and the termination government's mandate. Now former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski did not use his legal opportunity to explain his resignation. After the Trajko Veljanoski's speech, Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of SDSM Goran Sugareski requested to speak. “Macedonian citizens have waited 10 long years for the...

Tonight Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in a public address, announced that tomorrow morning he will submit his resignation to the President of Parliament Trajko Veljanoski. “Tomorrow I will send a letter to the President of Parliament with my resignation as the president of the Government which will be activated 100 days before the election. This resignation represents the strength of...

With 75 votes "for" MPs of Parliament this afternoon adopted the Law on Amending and Supplementing the Law on the Public Prosecution service, which the Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva had requested. The amendments were discussed in an urgent procedure. Two hours were spent two hours in the plenary dispute, and after that a second reading in Parliament. With these amendments to...

VMRO-DPMNE are asking for a a new inquiry commission to be set up for the case "Affair Factory" confirmed Ilija Dimovski, coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE. According to the ruling party, this committee should answer questions such as why the Interior Ministry did not react in time and what is the essence of communication between Minister Spasovski and the suspects. According to VMRO-DPMNE,...

Tomorrow before arliament, at 18:00 there will be a protest where citizens will ask MPs to vote "for" the dismissal of Health Minister Nikola Todorov. "There must be accountability for a system that kills instead of cures! We want to tell the Minister "Death" and the time has come to take responsibility and to step down from this responsible position. At...

“Illiterate”, “stupid”, "shut-up", "stop talking", "you do not know how to lead a session" and "what kind of childhood did you have". These are just some of the insults MPs, and members of the Inquiry Commission on the wire-tapping scandal, direct to each-other in their daily sessions. Today, MP Vladanka Avirovik without permission to address the commission, told the Committee...

Today at noon begins the session in which MPs must vote in the new Ministers and Deputy Ministers from SDSM as dictated by the Przhino Agreement. Yesterday, three Ministers from the Prime Ministers Nikola Gruevski's Government resigned from their positions. Interior Minister Mitko Chakov, Minister of Labour and Social Policy, Dime Spasov, Deputy Minister of Information Society and Administration Marta Arsovska...

Three more Ministers from the Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's Government have resigned. The Minister Of Interior Mitko Chavkov, Minister of Labour and Social Policy Dime Spasov and the Deputy Minister of Information Society and Administration Marta Arsovska Tomovska, according to the Przhino Agreement, their resignations were submitted today tin Parliament. Parliament today also welcomed the proposal of appointing new Deputy Ministers...

The committee hearings have all finished, all issues on the package of laws set by the political parties that signed the Przhino Agreement on Friday have finally reached an agreement. The longest discussion were the changes to the Criminal Code and the Privacy Act. The MP and the Coordinator of the Parliamentary Group of DUI, Talat Xhaferi said that the...

The dispute over the budget has been scheduled for November the 16th at 12:00 pm. “The Government submitted the revised draft budget for 2016 to Parliament. The Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski scheduled another plenary session on November the 16th at 12:00 pm” announced the Cabinet of the President of Parliament.

MPs at today's Parliamentary session will have to approve the budget for the Special Public Prosecutor, Katica Janeva, so she can actually begin to work. The Funds amount to 63,420,428 denars, or approximately one million euros for the last quarter of 2015,  as indicated in the decision, are designed for continuous operations and autonomous operations of the Public Prosecution for...

With 111 votes "for" out of the 114 MP's who attended, the Law on Public Prosecution and related offenses arising from the content of the illegal interception of communications was voted in. The bill was finally passed. At the plenary session who gave their own presentations were MPs Petre Shilegov, Ilija Dimovski, Pavle Trajanov, Solza Grcheva, Rosa Topuzova Karevska, Bekim...

After marathon talks by the working teams of the negotiating groups, the parties reached an agreement this morning for a special law on the Special Public Prosecutor, "Meta" has discovered from sources close to the negotiating teams. We also have learnt that an agreement has been reached today and the name of the new special prosecutor  is expected to be announced...

"While Ms. Dimova and her colleagues from SDSM were absent from work, MP's from VMRO-DPMNE had more than 20,000 direct meetings with citizens," responds VMRO-DPMNE to Ms. Dimova's statement she gave at a press conference. "Parliament were functioning to its constitutional capacity and without SDSM and will continue to operate with the same capacity even though SDSM have decided to...

The opposition coalition headed by SDSM will return to the national assembly tomorrow, as was agreed in the Przhino Agreement which the four big political parties signed on June 2 and June 15 to end the political crisis. In the meantime the Action groups have been meeting to discuss the implementation of the Agreement. The most contentious issue at the...

Member of Parliament Liljana Popovska of DOM commented today that the Legislative commission of the Assembly is losing its credibility. Popovska said that all of her arguments for amending the Law for prevention and protection of discriminatory practices have been turned down by the Commission. -By doing this you allow LGBTI people to be treated like orphans in their own...

From the "Camp of Liberty" in front of the Government and from the "Keepers of democracy" in front of the Parliament after the deal between political leaders for resolving the crisis, with a positive assessment of the agreed and support for the leaders of SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE, but with hard conflicting views on what is yet to happen for...

On Tuesday next week, at a session of the Government, the draft amendments to the Law on asylum and temporary protection, which should facilitate the transit of immigrants across the country, will be reviewed. Amendments to the Law, which was proposed by the Ministry of Interior (MOI), were prepared and placed into procedure at the beginning of May, but after...

The Parliament of Macedonia will today hold the 49th session. To discuss the draft law amending and supplementing the Law on Consumer Protection and the amended draft law on customs measures for the implementation of protection of intellectual property. On the agenda are also the draft laws on ratification of the Agreement between Macedonia and the European Union for participation...