Skopje, 15 January 2018 – Parliament on Monday voted in favor of a draft-law on ratification of the Agreement on Friendship, Good Neighborliness and Cooperation between the Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Bulgaria. 61 MPs voted in favor with one MP in abstention. Today’s session was not attended by lawmakers of the opposition party […]
The Skopje-based Appellate Court has refused Friday as unfounded the complaints against detention measure of 11 persons under suspicion of being involved in the Parliament incident on 27 April 2017. Thus the court confirmed the detention measure for Oliver Popovski, Goran Gjosevski, Vlado Jovanovski, Mitko Cavkov, Igor Durlovski, Munir Pepic, Dusko Lazarov, Mitko Pesov, Oliver […]
Skopje, 11 January 2018 – Macedonia’s Parliament on Thursday adopted the Law on the Use of Languages. 69 MPs voted in favor of the law. The law was passed by a double majority, i.e. 27 deputies of minority communities voted for the law with one being in abstention. The debate on the law on languages […]
The opposition VMRO-DPMNE deputies will not attend tomorrow’s Q&A session, interim coordinator of the party’s parliamentary group Vlatko Gjorcev. The party decided to boycott the Q&A session following the Skopje court order for extending the detention of 29 people, involved in Parliament violent events, including VMRO-DPMNE MPs. ‘We are for dialogue, communication, normalization of the […]
In the 50-minute speech in Parliament among MPs and from the government and the main opposition party – VMRO-DPMNE, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, heads of state institutions, heads of religious organizations and foreign diplomats, President Gjorge Ivanov, called for a ceasefire. He said an and for political revanchism and especially highlighted hate speech and its […]
62 MPs voted Monday in favor of electing Venko Filipce as the new health minister. There were no votes against and only one was in abstention. Speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the government proposed the neurosurgeon to take up the post of minister of health. “I hope that today the Parliament will […]
Parliament voted Friday in favor of extending the state of emergency along the borders with Serbia and Greece after an increase in arrivals and transits of migrants across the territory of Macedonia has been registered. The state of emergency will be enforced until 30 June 2018. 60 MPs voted in favor of passing the decision. […]
Six MPs suspected of taking part in the April 27 incidents in the Parliament are expected to face a pre-trial judge in the Skopje-based Criminal Court on Tuesday. VMRO-DPMNE MPs Johan Tarculovski, Zaklina Pesevska, Saso Vasilevski, Krsto Mukoski, Ljuben Arnaudov and Ljupco Dimovski are set to appear in the court after the Parliament stripped their immunity last week. […]
The international community has reacted today on the latest arrests about the violent events taken place on 27 April in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. The US ambassador to Skopje, Jess Baily said today following a meeting with Assembly Speaker, Talat Xhaferi that the current developments are being followed and that justice must […]
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 […]
