Everyone wants to get on the boat of amnesty in a situation of incredible political and legal stunts to pay the price for Euro-Atlantic integration, ie to find some compromise between what is called individual responsibility for April 27 and the integration of the country into NATO and the EU. More than 600 prisoners serving […]
The debate on the constitutional amendments arising from the Prespa Agreement will begin on December 17, the plenary session will be scheduled by January 9 at the earliest and the vote will take place on January 15, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi. “The last couple of debates hosted by the Government are taking place in […]
The public debate regarding constitutional amendments in Macedonia has started. PM Zoran Zaev declared that he’s open to any suggestion which would improve the draft amendments, however, everything should stick to the principles of the Prespa Agreement. PM Zaev said that he hopes that this issue will be finalized. “We have reiterated and we will continue […]
The Parliament adopted Monday the XXXVth draft-constitutional amendment by 64 votes ‘yes’, 14 ‘no’ and two ‘abstained’.The amendment will read “The Republic respects the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of neighboring countries”. Opposition MPs said the authorities have no mandate for the constitutional revision, which is not adopted by consensus, with only Greece benefiting from […]
Two draft constitutional amendments which refer to chage of the name of the state to Republic of North Macedonia and changes in Preambule were adopted in the Parliament after brief debate which lasted less than a two days. Sources in Parliament predict that voting for all four draft amendments might end on Wednesday although the […]
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 […]
Two days before the protest announced by the main opposition party VMRO-DPMNE against the arrests for the April 27 events, Parliament failed in the attempt to persuade the opposition party’s parliamentary group to push through a law for an overall amnesty for the so-called “Bloody Thursday”. Therefore, tomorrow, before the VMRO-DPMNE’s protest, it is expected that the […]
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 draft-law on amnesty of the suspected, indicted and convicted persons over the April 27 intrusion in Parliament, filed by VMRO-DPMNE, has not received the required majority to be discussed at the 66. Parliament session. Nevenka Stamenkovska from VMRO-DPMNE said in the law’s elaboration that it encompasses all persons that have already received first-instance […]
Four constitutional amendments which enable the change of the country’s name from “Republic of Macedonia” to “Republic of North Macedonia” have received the green light during the weekend in the parliamentary committees. Yesterday, MPs held debates on the fourth amendment which relates to the Diaspora.In the past few days, parliamentary committees have also approved other […]
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. […]
The Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Issues has started the debate on the four draft-constitutional amendments arising from the Prespa Agreement on Wednesday. The committee debate is set to last for twelve days, followed by a plenary session scheduled for December 1st. PM Zoran Zaev presented the draft-amendments last Friday, saying the four amendments are simple, […]
There will be reconciliation in the Parliament, and there will be no amnesty, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Tuesday. He emphasized that the coordinative body will work on overall current reconciliation, as well as the perspectives in Macedonia. “As soon as decisions are made, we will announce them to the public. The April 27 events […]
The reform agenda has returned to the Parliament. We should congratulate the responsibility of the two-thirds majority of MPs, who yesterday brought amendments to the laws of the public prosecutor’s office, the criminal procedure and the courts, wrote Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on his Facebook page. With the changes, according to Zaev, the control over […]
“Every MP who believes and knows that Macedonia needs be part of the western world should support the constitutional changes in the following stages. Therefore, we will continue to implement policies of unifying all positive and progressive forces in the country. Let’s put aside divisions in the interest of the country’s future,” said Sekerinska, welcoming […]
The US strongly supports the Prespa Agreement, and now following the result of the consultative referendum the Macedonian Parliament should take the next step for its implementation, Ambassador Jess Baily told reporters on Monday. ‘We welcome the result of the consultative referendum in which strong number of citizens came out in support of Macedonia’s path […]
The trial in the Parliament storming case continues Friday for a third day in a Skopje court with opening statements of defense lawyers representing defendants accused for participating in the violent incidents on 27 April 2017. 33 people, including lawmakers, former office holders, public figures, policemen, are tried in one of the most complex cases […]
The trial of the thirty men accused of being involved in the events in Parliament on 27 April 2017 has started Wednesday in Skopje-based Criminal Court. Among the defendants are MPs, artists, members of the Ministry of Interior, the security services and parliamentary security, who are indicted for terrorist endangerment of the constitutional order and […]
Macedonia’s parliament resumes its duties Monday after a three-week summer break. Information whether and how the MPs and parliamentary groups will participate in the public campaign for the referendum is expected to be known this week, and also whether the parliament, as authorized proposer, will monitor the work of election bodies that will conduct the […]
Classified documents received from any organ, cannot be possessed without security certificate, reviewed at a public session and before persons that do not have such certificate, reads Parliament Speaker’s Office press statement Thursday in regard to disobeying the Law on Classified Information by the Chairman of Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee. “Chairman of Parliamentary Foreign Policy […]
