Coalition for the renewal of Gruevism


Gjorgji Spasov Nikola Gruevski with his Coalition for Better Macedonia failed to retain power in 2016. By the end of April 2017, he was trying to forcibly halt the change of power, but it still happened, and the changes began. Spreading fear of the “Tirana Platform” has not wavered the new government in adopting the […]

Lessons learned from the Kosovo elections


Gjorgji Spasov In the 2017 elections in Kosovo, military leaders (KLA commanders – Haradinaj, Vejseli and Limaj) united in one pre-election coalition (PANA) and won 33 percent of the vote, providing them with 39 seats in the Kosovo Parliament and the opportunity to form the government. In those elections, the ultra-leftist and populist movement, Albin […]

What will the elections in Kosovo bring?


Gjorgji Spasov In two days, Kosovo will wrap up the election campaign for the new snap parliamentary elections on October 6th. Before the new elections, the electoral landscape in Kosovo has changed significantly. The parties of the former PANA coalition of KLA military commanders (Haradinaj, Vejseli and Limaj), who formed the government after the 2107 […]

Is there a way out of the “Racket” affair?


Gjorgji Spasov After being elected leader of the party, Zoran Zaev managed to achieve several major political achievements. First, he succeeded with unprecedented courage and persistence, exposing himself to great danger in order to unmask the false patriotism of VMRO-DPMNE and Nikola Gruevski, and expose the great crime and gross abuse of power in the […]

Reminders and warnings


Gjorgji Spasov Probably very few people remember that Branko Crvenkovski congratulated Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski in 2007 in his annual address to the Parliament as President of the country for “restoring hope” among the citizens. It was an attempt by the B.C. person, as VMRO-DPMNE liked to call him, for some kind of reconciliation and […]

Whose is Goce?


Gjorgji Spasov On April 20, 1995, when President of Bulgaria was Zhelyu Zhelev, I was allowed by the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as the first ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia in Bulgaria to lay a wreath at the tomb of Jane Sandanski at the Rozhen Monastery on the Pirin Mountains. The delegation, which […]

Too late to change the election model


Gjorgji Spasov In its 2016 election programme, SDSM has written: “We will propose that the MPs be elected on the principle of open lists, and that the Republic of Macedonia be one constituency. In this way, each vote will be equally important, and citizens will directly elect their representatives.” The basic idea for this promise, […]

Zaev faces a new and more difficult task


Gjorgji Spasov Less than two years ago, after the bloody events in the Parliament on April 27, no one could be sure in which direction North Macedonia would move. But on June 1, that same year, nearly six months after the end of the country’s general elections, the government headed by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev […]

What will the second round bring?


Gjorgji Spasov Before the first round of the presidential elections, many feared two things. The first was incidents or irregularities at any polling station that the opposition would use to accuse the elections of not being free and fair and to call, as it did during the name referendum, for a public or secret boycott […]