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The Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia voted in the new government on Sunday night. The new cabinet is led by Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski. During the vote, a total of 108 MPs were in attendance, and 62 MPs voted in favor, while 46 MPs voted against. The parliamentary speaker Talat Xhaferi then congratulated the prime minister and the...

The Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Wes Mitchell, in a letter addressed to the president of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, has asked the leader of the largest opposition party in Macedonia to engage, both publicly and privately, in opening more space for VMRO-DPMNE's MPs to express their free will regarding the constitutional changes in the Parliament. The...

If there is no census in the referendum on Sunday, this means that the decision will be in the hands of the institutions - says the country's National Coordinator for NATO, Stevo Pendarovski. According to him, the mood amongst the public regarding the referendum is positive and is increasing. Pendarovski says he expects that a clear message will be sent from...

The Prespa Agreement is a courageous and fair compromise that will put Macedonia on its way towards EU and NATO and will provide a bright future. I call all citizens of Macedonia to vote at the referendum and to take part in this historic decision, said George Bush Jr., the former US President. In a letter addressed to the...

I call all citizens in your country especially the Albanians that are living here to give their support for the historical Prespa agreement because it has exceptional significance for the region's democratic stability, said today the Head of the Albanian diplomacy, Ditmir Bushati at the press conference with his Macedonian colleague, Nikola Dimitrov. -We all agree that the Albanians living...

This afternoon, without explanation or discussion, Parliament has chosen the new structure for the State Election Commission (SEC) and the amendments to the laws that were agreed at leaders’ meeting on Monday. The SEC’s members were elected with 100 votes "for" without anyone reported. Oliver Derkovski from VMRO-DPMNE has been chosen to be the chairman of the Commission, and as vice-president...

The amendments should be adopted in a shortened procedure, according to preliminary information, the aim is that SEC’s members, instead of a two-thirds majority, should be elected with an absolute majority, i.e. 61 votes. There is no further information whether the same SEC model remains i.e. it was adjusted by the SDSM with the opposition, and according to the VMRO-DPMNE,...

The parliamentary session regarding the re-run of the vote on Ratification Law concerning the name dispute will be held on 5th of July, at today's coordination meeting, said Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi, for all coordinators of parliamentary groups. The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia ratified the Agreement concerning the name dispute settlement on June 20 with 69 votes "for"...

Parliament, with 62 votes, without any votes against and without abstentions, passed the Budget of the Republic of Macedonia for 2018 tonight. The budget for 2018 paints a picture of the economic and social policies of the Government, which are aimed at a stable economic growth, a better standard of living, a higher level of social justice, and efficient and...

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi announced that tomorrow, Parliament will vote on the Government's proposal to dismiss the Attorney General of the Republic of Macedonia, Marko Zvrlevski, after MPs from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE left the session this afternoon referring to a letter from the State Commission for Preventing Corruption, who determined that in the period before local elections, there should...

The fifth session in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia began yesterday with an extensive agenda. Today it continues and on today's agenda is the election of deputy ministers in the government led by Zoran Zaev. Before the vote begins on the ministerial agenda, on the agenda are the annual reports for 2016 of the state councils, commissions or...

This afternoon, MPs of the parliamentary majority, led by SDSM, stayed in the plenary hall of Parliament after the chairman, Trajko Veljanoski, stopped today’s 20th continuation of its session. MPs from SDSM, DUI, Besa and the Albanian Alliance refused to leave the hall and demanded that a new Parliament Speaker be elected. In the hall, VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs were present, who,...

Today, Mitko Chavkov, the Minister of Interior handed in his resignation, and Oliver Andonov has been nominated by the Government as the new Interior Minister. If successful, Andonov will be Interior Minister for just one day, until Oliver Spasovski from the SDSM is appointed. Spasovski shall return to this function as part of the interim government, which will begin operating...

Slovenia is getting ready for a referendum to change the law on marriage and family relations which provides for the right for same-sex marriages. At the 3.113 polling stations more than 1.7 million citizens will arrive and vote. The official results of the referendum will be announced on February 16, and the first unofficial count will be announced tonight at 9:00pm. Although...

The Greek government is on yet another crossroads. The casting of votes for the new package of measures will show how much support the Government lead by SYRIZA and Prime Minister Tsipras can enjoy from the party’s own rank. The leftist party has inched even closer to dissolution following yesterday’s appeal by former energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis, who called...

The new priority measures for Greece have the adopted, however Alexis Tsipras did not get the support for his demands for a broader support of his party Syriza. In the marathon parliamentary discussion which finished with a vote at four in the morning, the measures were supported by 230 of 298 of the present MP’s; 63 voted against and...