Process for collecting signatures for presidential nominees ended at midnight


The process for collecting signatures for presidential nominees, which began on February 23rd, ended at midnight. Each presidential candidate should collect at least 10,000 signatures from the electorate. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, the presidential candidate supported by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Stevo Pendarovski, supported by the ruling SDSM-DUI coalition, and Blerim Reka, an independent candidate supported by […]

MP Sela seeks €500,000 in damages for pain and emotional distress


MP Zijadin Sela on Thursday didn’t attend a trial against ten men charged with attempted murder in relation to Sela’s attack during the violent storming of Parliament on 27 April 2017. Sela is also the leader of the party Alliance for the Albanians. Even though Sela was expected to attend the trial after the testimony of […]

AA leader Sela calls opposition VMRO-DPMNE to not obstruct adoption of language bill


By submitting over 35,000 amendments to the language bill the opposition VMRO-DPMNE stands against the interests of at least one third of Macedonia’s population, Alliance for Albanians (AA) leader Zijadin Sela said Monday. Urging VMRO-DPMNE to put an end to such policies, Sela said he had information that the party agreed on adoption of an […]

Alliance of Albanians’ office-holders tender their resignations


Office-holders of Macedonia’s government junior coalition partner – the Alliance of Albanians (AA) – tendered their resignations on Thursday. The Deputy-Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Transport & Communications, Labour & Social Policy – Arta Toci, Remzi Memedi and Elmi Aziri respectively, as well as State Secretary with the Ministry of Justice Zulfi Adili, submitted their resignations […]

AA stays in gov’t coalition until language law is adopted, says Sela


The Alliance of the Albanians (AA) stays in the government coalition until the bill on the use of languages is adopted, party leader Zijadin Sela said Monday. Sela and his party colleague Surija Rusiti arrived in Parliament earlier today to attend a session on the election of new government ministers. They, however, left the session […]