Tag: VMRO-DPMME

On August 31st, the leaders of the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement confirmed the date December 11 for early parliamentary elections. The day after, the ruling party began reshuffling the staff at the Ministry of Interior, employment within the ministry and a series of manoeuvres ahead of the early elections. Some experts and opposition parties have characterized these moves...

MPs in Parliament today voted in two ministers from the SDSM into the interim government, which was stipulated by the Pržino Agreement. Oliver Spasovski, who will be the Minister of Interior, and Frosina Remenski, who will be the Minister of Labour and Social Policy, 95 MPs voted “for”, while 2 voted “against”. When the Prime Minister, Emil Dimitriev proposed the new...

Appointing Oliver Andonov, a former professor at the MIT university in Skopje, an activist for the Civil Movement for Defense of Macedonia (GDOM), as minister of the Interior for a day is the latest tactical manoeuvre of the VMRO-DPMNE. The ruling party has done this to secure key positions with the personnel in the Interior Ministry so they can...

The leaders' meeting, where conditions are meant to be reviewed for holding elections as well as how the agreement from July 20, should take place tomorrow at 13:00, “Meta” has learned from sources within the SDSM party. “In principle, the meeting should take place tomorrow at 13:00”, the opposition party told us. The VMRO-DPMNE say that they do not know whether...

The ruling party, the VMRO-DPMNE have published a public advertisement for candidates for Mayors for the upcoming local elections which should be held within a year. The public advertisement states the positions applies to all 84 municipalities, and candidates for Mayor can be any citizen who meets the requirements for candidacy in accordance with the Constitution and the law,...

At the new VMRO-DPMNE Headquarters in Bitola, anyone carrying a mobile phone will be denied entry. At the entrance, there is a sign asking members to leave their mobile phones at the front reception.  When we asked the spokesperson for the VMRO-DPMNE in Bitola, Valentina Markovska whether this new precaution had been introduced because members were afraid of video leaks,...

Skopje’s Public Prosecutor’s Office has summoned Bitola farmer Dusko Ilievski and tobacco grower Kire Nedelkovski for questioning regarding their participation in the protests held in Skopje in April, after President Gjorge Ivanov’s decision to pardon 56 politicians and their close associates. According to the summons, both Ilievski and Nedelovski were part of a mob that prevented an officer from carrying...

Whether negotiations between the working groups of the political parties, signatories to the Pržino Agreement continue today, depends on whether the ambassadors from the EU and the US, Aivo Orav and Jess Baily assess that there are chances for a final agreement. From our sources within the negotiating teams, we have been told that they are waiting on the good...

The eventual formation of special departments is expedient and rational, said the Special Public Prosecution’s Office to our correspondents at “Meta”, in connection with the initiatives for the establishment of special departments within the courts and the MOI, for the cases led by the SPO. The SPO have said they will not comment further on these issues because, according to...

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...

Elections are the only way out of the political crisis, and the VMRO-DPMNE are ready for them, however, for elections to happen, the opposition has to undertake all the conditions for their conduct, and participate in them. This was said by the leader of the ruling party, Nikola Gruevski at today's meeting with the Assistant Secretary of State of the...

After the European Commission officially confirmed that they will cut 27.1 million euros from IPA funds for Macedonia, the Macedonian government says it is not a question of sanctions, but a reduction in program funding. “There are two aspects, internal and external. The interior is connected with the fact that for more than a year now elections were expected. During...

With the proposal re-balance budget for this year, 400 million denars will be cut from the budget of the State Election Commission, which raises the question will there be elections this year or not? At the beginning of the year, when MPs adopted the budget, the budget for the SEC was over 531.000.000 denars, however with the re-balance, which MPs...

Bilateral meetings between the representatives of the four largest political parties with mediators from the European Union and the United States have come to a finish. None of the representatives were too optimistic and no one wants to predict when to expect some progress. The Vice President of the SDSM Radmila Sekerinska, in a press statement today said they expressed...

The leaders of the VMRO-DPMNE and the SDSM, Nikola Gruevski and Zoran Zaev, confirmed this weekend that the two largest political parties in Macedonia are ready and prepared for elections, and both have said the sooner the better. According to the former Prime Minister and the leader of the ruling party, this way they can cut costs to the...

The VMRO-DPMNE are the certain winners at the next election, whenever they are held, albeit, the sooner the better, so as to cut losses to the economy, said party leader Nikola Gruevski today in his speech at the 25th conference of the Union of young forces of the VMRO-DPMNE. Gruevski once again attacked the opposition, the SDSM, and the Special...

The former Minister of Interior and senior official of the ruling party, VMRO-DPMNE, Gordana Januloska today used the social networks such as “Twitter” and “Facebook” to mock Great Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. She tweeted “Now what?” to the British Ambassador, Charles Garret. https://twitter.com/G_Jankuloska/status/746289977533796352 And on Jankuloska’s facebook profile, she again took the opportunity to smirk some more and wrote...

There is no outlook or announcements to revive the broken down “negotiations for negotiations” , where it is expected the four main political parties, and signatories to the Pržino Agreement are to sit down and hold talks. However, there is no new initiative for new talks, consultations or meetings with the lower echelon parties. The negotiations, according to the Vice...

"... VMRO-DPMNE for some time now has not shown signs of a full-blooded life. The party leader (Nikola Gruevski ), apparently in his style, has gradually distanced himself from the top position. Looking at all the signs, he is preparing to resign from the position as party leader, "says Mirka Velinovska, in an article titled "Will the VMRO-DPMNE lead...

The Special Prosecutor's Office will not comment on the statement made by the leader of the VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, who yesterday, at the celebration of the party’s 26th birthday, the former PM stated that the SPO has lost its credibility, that they work in an unprofessional manner and that they work directly underneath the SDSM. “As we have said on...