The latest amendments to the Criminal Code, which will also allow pardoning economic crimes committed during the rule of the former government, have turned even the most hardline of Social Democrats. Believing in a law-abiding state is getting more difficult each day, and what’s even more devastating is that no one can tell with certainty […]
VMRO-DPMNE is not scared by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s “threats” that parliamentary speaker Talat Xhaferi will succeed Gjorgje Ivanov if the presidential elections fail this spring, and then the constitution will be changed by which the “father of the nation” would be elected in parliament, and not in direct elections. In the main opposition party, […]
Political parties in Macedonia have started to engage in strong debates concerning the developments taken place in the country during 2018. The leader of the biggest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski declared that this year has been the worst ever for the country. “Progress has not been made and Macedonia can be compared to countries […]
VMRO-DPMNE continues to accuse SDSM for the air pollution, which is a consequence, among other things, of their policy for ten years in power. According to the opposition party, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and Mayor Petre Silegov do not do absolutely nothing to preserve the health of the citizens from the polluted air. “Skopje and […]
More than 720,000 citizens are supposed to come out and vote in the spring presidential election for the new “father of the nation” for it to get legitimacy. The turnout for successful elections, which, compared to the referendum, has dropped by ten percent (40 versus 50 percent) at the moment looks impossible for the disappointed […]
Today SDSM presented documents that, according to the party, indicate that VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, while advising former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski from the government, received land of 33 thousand square meters for construction of a hydro power plant in the cadastral municipality of Pehcevo, and for that there was a decision published in the […]
The lack of voter turnout in the referendum questioned the credibility of research agencies, which measured the pulse of the public in the wake of last Sunday’s vote. Instead of the predicted minimum of 750,000 voters, up to the optimistic forecasts of meeting the necessary turnout, the turnout of the citizens stopped at 36.7 percent, […]
Following Wednesday evening’s meeting of parties who support the name agreement with Greece and the referendum, Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev said he expects more supporters to join the ‘United for European Macedonia’ coalition. “The point of this coalition,” MP Zaev said on Thursday, “is to create a movement in support of the […]
About 30 political parties have rallied around the call to the citizens for a positive outcome of the referendum and the Euro-Atlantic future of Macedonia by endorsing several joint principles. The political parties have agreed to call on the citizens to come out on September 30 and vote Yes in the upcoming name referendum, it […]
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 […]
The head of the Skopje police Toni Jakimovski is the most mentioned name for the successor to the replaced Lazo Velkovski in the Public Security Bureau. Although his appointment seems to be a done deal, because his colleagues at the Ministry of Interior and representatives of the international community gave him a green light, the […]
On the day the government was supposed to dismiss Lazo Velkovski, Director of the Public Security Bureau, whose daughter went on vacation to Greece with an official vehicle of the Ministry of Interior, the MOI was shook by another similar scandal. Primislav Dimovski, the commander of the unit Alpha, stayed in Ohrid for the weekend […]
A fresh round of talks including only the leaders of the four main parliamentary parties – Zoran Zaev of SDSM, Ali Ahmeti of DUI, Hristijan Mickoski of VMRO-DPMNE and Bilal Kasami of Besa will resume Monday morning at 9:00 am, Government told MIA. Prime Minister and SDSM leader Zoran Zaev has invited leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, […]
Shkruan: Robert Nesimi Çështja e emrit, perceptimi për punën e institucioneve shtetëore, besimi tek ta, rejtingu i partive politike dhe aktorëve tjerë shtetërorë e publikë, korrupsioni, rëndësia e marrëdhënieve ndëretnike, integrimet euroatlantike e të tjera. Disponimi i qytetarëve për këto dhe çështje tjera janë treguesit më të mirë të vullnetit politik të shoqërisë dhe do […]
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti assessed their first year as very successful. Zaev, referring to the reforms, said that they were started, but it would take extra time to complete them successfully. The Prime Minister assessed that more than 90 thousand citizens in Macedonia now receive a higher minimum salary, as […]
Eleven ministers have governed the education and science department in the past eighteen years. Five ministers spent about a year in office since 2000, and as many ministers were in office for nearly two years as head of the education department. The frequent changes of ministers in one of the most important departments, where policies, […]
The new governor of the Central Bank in Macedonia should be made until the end of the month, but the government and president Gjorke Ivanov have not yet come to an agreement about the candidate that will lead this institution. President Ivanov has proposed the current governor, Dimitar Bogov to be re elected in this […]
The issue of the name continued to be one of the central topics of debate during the weekend. PM Zoran Zaev has warned that the solution of this issue may be reached before the end of the summit of June that the European Council has planned to hold. “Believing that this is the right time […]
The majority and opposition in Macedonia have agreed today on passing the bills needed for the reforms in the justice system and the Judicial Council. Work groups from SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE have come to an agreement concerning disciplinary measures for judges who disclose classified information from the trials and in cases when the rulings of […]
Robert Nesimi Një vit e gjysmë pas zgjedhjeve parlamentare 2016 po bëhet veçmë irrituese kur aktorë të rëndësishëm politikë vazhdojnë të shtirren se nuk e kanë kuptuar se çfarë në të vërtetë ndodhi në ato zgjedhje. VMRO për shembull vazhdon të pretendojë se ka fituar shumicën dhe se ajo pa të drejtë sot gjendet në […]
