Your statements that the court will be held responsible for postponing the proceedings are unacceptable, as it cannot arbitrarily, and contrary to the law, determine any security measures unless the conditions are met, reacted the Criminal Court yesterday concerning the (non)decision of the Parliament to stripe two MPs of their MP immunity. – If the […]
North Macedonia’s Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi claims he has adjourned last night’s session because of ‘heckling and rude behavior’ by a SDSM MP. According to Speaker Xhaferi, MP Muhamed Zekiri shouted out that time was running out and that the motion on stripping ex-speaker and current VMRO-DPMNE MP Trajko Veljanoski of his immunity should be […]
Last night, parliament in North Macedonia convened to lift the immunity for former parliamentary speaker Trajko Veljanoski who’s suspected by the prosecutor’s office as being one of the organizers of the violent events produced inside parliament on 27 April 2017. VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs managed to cause the necessary delays which made it impossible for the lifting of […]
After a two-day debate, the Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues has not decided whether to honor the Court’s request to strip MP Trajko Veljanovski of his parliamentary immunity over his alleged involvement in the events of April 27. Chairman Pavle Bogoevski said the request would be forwarded to Parliament to decide on during […]
Lawmaker Ljupco Dimovski appeared before the Criminal Court yesterday, but the court rescheduled the interrogation because his fellow MPs have not yet voted and decided not to deprive him of his MP immunity for the second time. Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi is on his way to Ljubljana, and according to information from the legislature, after […]
Macedonia’s Parliament stripped Tuesday the ex-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his MP immunity by 62 votes in favor. Earlier today, the Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed the court’s motions for stripping of Gruevski of parliamentary immunity, as he fled from Macedonia after being sentenced to two years in prison on […]
Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi has scheduled the plenary session over the issue of stripping Nikola Gruevski of his MP immunity on Tuesday afternoon at 17:00h. Earlier in the day, the Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed the six motions by the court for stripping Gruevski of his MP immunity, for the […]
The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues has endorsed the six motions by the court for stripping of Nikola Gruevski of his MP immunity, for the purpose of ordering detention. VMRO-DPMNE MPs did not attend the session. The decision will be forwarded to the Parliament Speaker, who is set to schedule a […]
The Parliament has received five motions for termination of the MP immunity of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who recently escaped and received political asylum in Hungary. The motions will be discussed at Tuesday’s session of the Committee for Rules of Procedure and Mandatory-Immunity Issues. Gruevski was sentenced to two years imprisonment for abuse of […]
The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed by majority of votes the court’s motion for termination of the MP mandate of Nikola Gruevski for the purpose of serving a two-year prison sentence over Special Prosecutor’s Office case dubbed Tank. VMRO-DPMNE MPs abandoned the session, claiming it is a political process not […]
The Skopje-based Criminal Court has sent a request to the Parliament to strip six deputies of their immunity. Upon the return of Speaker Talat Xhaferi from Sweden, the documents are to be forwarded to Pavle Bogoevski, chairman of the Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory-Immunity Issues, who is supposed to schedule a session, most […]
