Procedure for depriving Gruevski of his MP mandate starts


Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi will notify the committee on mandate and immunity-related issues that MP Nikola Gruevski has had unexcused absences from Parliament session for more than six months, it was revealed. Under Article 59 of the Parliament’s Rules of Procedures, the committee is tasked with submitting a motion to Parliament on revoking a lawmaker’s […]

Xhaferi: Gruevski’s MP status to be re-examined in Parliament


Extraordinary coordination with the vice-presidents of parliament and the coordinators of the parliamentary groups for reviewing the status of Nikola Gruevski as an MP, announced Speaker Talat Xhaferi after the former prime minister announced that he had fled to Hungary. – Members of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group have so far reported Gruevski as absent from the sessions, […]

Parliament to hold session on Gruevski’s mandate on Thursday


The Parliament will hold Thursday a session over the motion for termination of the MP mandate of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski for the purpose of serving a two-year prison sentence over Special Prosecutor’s Office case ‘Tank’. The Parliament’s Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory-Immunity Issues endorsed Wednesday the motion by majority of votes. […]

Gruevski will keep his mandate, but not his freedom


The chances of depriving the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate due to the final verdict on the case ‘Tank’ are very small. The two-thirds majority, which passed the decision to join the constitutional changes, is unlikely to be repeated in the case of Gruevski. His until recently fellow party members, who […]

SPO urges extension of mandate to focus on high-profile corruption


Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva urged Tuesday for extension of its mandate beyond 2020 in the framework of the Public Prosecutor’s Office and focus on high-profile corruption. “The Special Prosecutor’s Office’s (SPO) mandate has not expired and that is why we are certain that measures will be undertaken to implement the Government’s strategy of judicial […]