NATO and the EU, reforms, corruption, the economy will be the main topics of the April 12, 2020 early parliamentary elections campaign, according to political analysts in Skopje. Communications expert Zhaneta Trajkovska says the parties have not yet exhausted the European integration card, and that this will be the main topic of the campaign, in […]
DUI MP Artan Grubi was very close to preventing the opposition’s intention to hold Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov under investigation. He entered the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, led by former Minister Antonio Miloshoski, at the very moment when Dimitrov finished his 75-minute-long address, in which he spoke about his work, the situation in the […]
A new round of talks between the working groups of the ruling SDSM and opposition VMRO-DPMNE over the Law on Public Prosecution will be held on Monday in the Parliament, informs the Ministry of Justice. Monday’s meeting of working groups is the first since leaders’ talks held earlier this month failed to reach an agreement […]
There may be a new meeting over the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office on Saturrday, said VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Miloshoski. “We were expecting a meeting yesterday, we were prepared for it today. We have been now told that a meeting is possible tomorrow. We are fine with this,” said MP Miloshoski. Regarding the opposition’s expectations, […]
The government and the opposition are making the final attempt to bring their views on the prosecution law closer. Following the failure of the meeting between SDSM leaders Zoran Zaev and VMRO-DPMNE’s Hristijan Mickoski, as well as negotiations between the working groups, the prime minister’s and opposition leader’s advisers Bojan Maricic and Timcho Mucunski are […]
The fate of the Special Prosecutor’s Office and the cases opened by this prosecution still remain uncertain. SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE leaders Zoran Zaev and Hristijan Mickoski following six-hour long talks failed to find a solution to the Law on Public Prosecutor’s Office, which should resolve the future status of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. The key […]
The outcome of this evening’s meeting between Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and VMRO-DPMNE president Hristijan Mickoski will determine the continuation of the committee and plenary sessions over the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the dismissal of Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva, said Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi on Tuesday. Xhaferi said the […]
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski will meet in the Parliament on Tuesday, in a bid to find common ground for the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the fate of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. The meeting will begin at 20h. The Public Prosecution law will […]
Goran Adamovski As rarely seen, parties in both the government and the opposition have agreed to dismiss Katica Janeva from the post of Head Special Prosecutor. MPs went through the first filter yesterday in less than an hour, and the final one will be completed shortly after the country’s Independence Day on September 8th. Until […]
“The security situation in the country is stable. There are no indications from inside or outside to endanger the integrity and sovereignty of the Republic of North Macedonia. However, we must bear in mind that there is a period that may be turbulent as we await the country’s NATO membership and the possible opening of […]
Nina Angelovska is the new finance minister, while Hisen Xhemaili is elected minister without portfolio. Deputy Ministers were also appointed after a two-day debate in the Assembly, which included discussions on the economy, foreign investment, the rule of law and early elections. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said the current government would extend its mandate by […]
Goran Adamovski The government and the opposition will sit down today at a joint table in the latest attempt to reach a mutually acceptable solution for the future of the Special Prosecutor’s Office. Recent information suggests that there is a mood in both camps to find a compromise on the new prosecution law, but both […]
The government accepted four of the twenty amendments submitted by VMRO-DPMNE on the first day of parliamentary debate on the prosecution draft-law. The Social Democrats and the DUI have agreed to allocate 0.4% of the budget for the new Prosecution Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, that is, the regular prosecutor’s office. In addition, the […]
Next week, there will be a new meeting between the government and opposition working groups in an effort to iron out differences over the Prosecution Law. After the summer recess, SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE representatives will again sit at the table, but now in an even tougher political atmosphere than twenty days ago. The “Racket” affair […]
The largest opposition party in North Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE, has declared that it’s ready to vote the new bill on the Special Prosecutor’s Office if the ruling party agrees to declare early elections. The vice chairman of this party, Aleksandar Nikolovski told “Kanal5” that a snap election is their only condition. “No bill can pass in […]
The law on State Prosecutor’s Office proposed by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Friday is entering parliamentary procedure today. The Government will try to provide the necessary two-thirds majority to push through the changes that will make the SPO part of the newly established Prosecutor’s Office against Organized Crime and High Corruption with jurisdiction over […]
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev yet again called VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Hristijan Mickoski to attend the leaders’ meeting on Friday, saying it would take place regardless of the opposition leader’s decision. “I am prepared to talk on what Mickoski insists. We might not agree on all issues, but we need to talk first. We are […]
It is quite certain that 2020 will be a year of elections, but these days the uncertainty again increases whether the elections for the “jubilee” tenth parliamentary composition will be the first regular elections in more than a decade, or they will be early and held several months earlier. Unlike before, when holding early elections […]
In the past few weeks, even months, the government has been under intense pressure from the opposition (which is completely expected, because it is its job), but also from the democratic public, which is much more painful because its criticism is far more realistic. Just as one fire is out, another one starts burning. The […]
The ruling SDSM party is to hold Sunday a meeting of the Central Board and to discuss the election of the new party leadership as well as the completion of the internal changes. The Central Board’s meeting is to start at 16h in Ohrid, SDSM party said in a press release. The agenda includes the […]
