SDSM yesterday asked VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski and MP Antonio Milošoski to tell their relatives to resign from state-owned enterprises where they are employees. Instead of an answer, the ruling party received a counter-attack, that is, a new case of nepotism by SDSM officials, pointing to MP Tanja Kovacev, who allegedly managed to find a […]
The arrests of three former VMRO-DPMNE officials suspected of organizing the bloody events on April 27, 2017 angered the main opposition party, and is now planning to completely freeze all contacts with the ruling parties. The opposition party will not participate in the upcoming meeting of the Jean Monnet process, and the caucus group “For […]
The Special Prosecution Office has announced that it has launched an investigation against five former senior state officials over their alleged involvement in the violent events taken place on April 27, 2017 in Parliament. Former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who has fled to Hungary and former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanovski are among the suspects. Meanwhile, […]
Professor Gordana Siljanovska is the VMRO-DPMNE candidate for president of Macedonia. 408 out of 519 delegates voted for her at the convention in Struga. Her opponets congratulated her on her victory. Professor Gordana Siljanovska in her first speech as Macedonia’s presidential candidate from the ranks of VMRO-DPMNE, said that the time has come for her to […]
VMRO-DPMNE’s convention has started in Struga, where the candidate of this party should be selected for the upcoming presidential elections. Party leader Hristijan Mickoski, before entering the hall of the House of Culture, expressed his confidence that today Macedonia will know the name of the new president of the country. “Today we are finalizing the […]
VMRO-DPMNE wants the OSCE to increase the number of observers during the presidential election in the country, which would prevent the possible illegal filling of the ballot boxes. The main opposition party fears that the government is preparing a forgery of the will of the citizens, especially when their request for early general elections was […]
The director of the Skopje landfill Drisla, Goran Angelov, is among the nine candidates for president of the state from the VMRO-DPMNE. He is a former mayor of Vinica in two terms, and due to his success and efficiency he was appointed president of the Association of Local Self-Government Units (ZELS). He directly participated in […]
Macedonia Rapporteur in the European Parliament Ivo Vajgl said Tuesday after a meeting with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski he was assured that the opposition would be constructive in the EU accession reform process. “I highlighted the fact that the EP’s main interest and also mine as Macedonia Rapporteur is for the country to continue on […]
Nine nominations for president of the state are received at the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE. The list is led by professor Gordana Siljanovska and MP Vlatko Gjorcev, who are considered the most serious candidates for Gjorge Ivanov’s successor. Other candidates include former MP Filip Petrovski; Nikita Sekutkovski, professor at PMF; Gorgi Manaskov, President of the Economic […]
If the presidential elections were held last spring, VMRO-DPMNE would have considered whether to run with Trajko Slaveski or Zoran Stavreski. The two economists had the highest ratings in the internal polls in April and May, and right behind them was Srdjan Kerim. Nine months later, none of them are in the game for the […]
The interview with “The King of Exile”, former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for TV Sitel, which, as we learned from the wiretapped materials, was the main “microphone” in the hands of his regime – is only the last episode of the Macedonian political theater of the absurd. The fifteen-minute-long conversation, in which he mostly talks […]
VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in an interview with Radio Free Europe didn’t answer what he meant under “everything” that his party will do to change the processes that arise from the Prespa Agreement. Firstly, as he says, VMRO-DPMNE should win the elections, form a government, and then the process changes will be done one step […]
The movement “Macedonia Blocks” submitted their nomination for president of the country yesterday afternoon to the headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE. Their candidate is Filip Petrovski, who is now part of the party’s factional wing because of open disagreements with current leadership led by Hristijan Mickoski. He is the former director of the National Archives. I call on VMRO-DPMNE to […]
Macedonia’s Parliament did not support the Macedonian opposition’s motion for interpellation of Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov. With 59 votes against and 20 votes in favour, parliament decided to reject the motion filed by VMRO-DPMNE lawmakers. The opposition accused Minister Dimitrov of irresponsible conduct in the way he’s handling the country’s interests. According to MPs, the agreements that were […]
When in 2014 DUI leader Ali Ahmeti uncompromisingly announced that he would withdraw from politics when Macedonia became part of NATO, he probably did not even believe that this would happen in five years. In times when the last pieces of the Skopje 2014 project were put into place, and thus chances for an agreement […]
The largest opposition party in Macedonia has reiterated its demand for early elections, which should be held along with presidential elections in April this year. “PM Zaev should resign, parliament should dissolve and early elections should be held with a government of technocrats”. This was the demand made by the chairman of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski. […]
The leadership of VMRO-DPMNE called for an emergency session of the Executive Committee, and later of the Central Committee. The two top party bodies will discuss the current political situation, the presidential election, and the party’s request for early general elections. Such meetings are coming after SDSM’s decision to postpone its final position regarding the […]
“I don’t want even want to lose a basketball match, let alone the presidential election,” said Vlatko Gjorcev from his parliamentary office on the first floor of the Parliament. Although in parliament yesterday was a regular day of activities, it was a special day for him: for the first time, he entered the Parliament as […]
Antonio Milososki backed Vlatko Gjorcev’s candidacy for the upcoming presidential election. The former minister, who speculated he was one of the opposition’s favorite candidates for Gjorge Ivanov’ successor, congratulated his counterpart on Facebook for his motivation and promised to vote for him at the convention in Struga. “The most important for such support is that […]
What has been said since the beginning of the year, has received its official confirmation yesterday. MP Vlatko Gjorcev said he would run for the party announcement for the party’s presidential candidate. He made this announcement from the press hall in the Parliament, which was quite unusual, and not in the party headquarters or someplace […]
