Parliament adopts the Prespa Agreement with 81 votes


With 81 votes in favour, the Macedonian Parliament adopted the amendments to four articles of the Constitution and thus accepted the name agreement with Greece. Once the parliament in Athens ratifies the process, the country’s new name will be the Republic of North Macedonia, and there will be other interventions in the Constitution. In return, […]

SDSM: Agreement has been reached, we have the required majority


The ruling SDSM claims that the misunderstandings with Besa have been overcome. Their demands, at present, will not be accepted, but will later be covered by legal solutions. Thus, the government provides the required majority of 80 MPs for accepting constitutional changes. Panco Minov will also vote for “in favour”, but it is uncertain whether […]

VMRO will stand aside, but will still exclude members who vote “in favour”


VMRO-DPMNE remains on its stance and will not participate in the work of the Parliament where the final phase of the constitutional changes for ratification of the name agreement with Greece begins today. The party expects its lawmakers to be united this time and not to vote in favour of the Prespa Agreement, but, just […]

MPs: The referendum is the greatest and most powerful form of direct democracy


The referendum is the greatest and most powerful form of direct democracy. Therefore, people should go out on September 30 and have their say on the direction that Macedonia should take, said MPs Ivana Tufegdzik, Bojan Petreski and Xhevad Ademi of coalition FOR European Macedonia on Saturday, within the observance of International Day of Democracy-September […]

Seventy majority MPs to take part in referendum campaign


Around seventy MPs are likely to take part in the public campaign leading up to the referendum on Sept. 30. The campaign, Parliament said, would be run through paid advertising, TV debates, as well as editorials in the press and in online media. So far, only MPs from SDSM and their coalition partners have confirmed […]