The third and final phase of the implementation of the Prespa Agreement is expected to start on Wednesday, January 9th with a parliamentary session where the voting of the constitutional amendments will take place. In order for the amendments to be passed, two thirds of MPs should vote in favour of them. PM Zoran Zaev […]
Leader of VMRO-DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski has declared that this party’s candidate will win the presidential elections which are expected to be held at the end of May this year. “I think that VMRO-DPMNE will achieve a landslide victory in the next presidential elections”, Mickoski said. He stressed that his party is transparent in the process […]
Former Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki yesterday refused to comment on the speculation that he was eyeing the leader’s post in VMRO-DPMNE. He was reportedly was out of the country for the New Year’s holidays, but he still rarely appears in the public, even in the Assembly, where he is a Member of Parliament. Poposki’s supporters […]
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, […]
Rigged political processes, reform laws, hate speech, scandal with wiretapped materials, divisions and distrust, managing political crises, conflicts between fan groups, LGBT rights, changes in the Criminal Code… These are just some of the social spheres where the newly formed parliamentary group on reconciliation, reform and integration wants to influence. Established with the aim of […]
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 […]
The draft law on selective amnesty that was adopted yesterday in the parliament probably cemented the two-thirds support for the constitutional changes needed to ratify the name agreement with Greece. The independent parliamentary group that emerged after the exclusion of MPs from VMRO-DPMNE directly participated in the preparation of the text that fulfilled the request […]
President Gjorge Ivanov is inconsistent in all his statements, and his latest public appearances are in the context of removing his responsibility for the violent events in the Assembly. This is how part of the analysts we consulted comment the president’s appearance, who once again reiterated that he did not plan to declare a state […]
Spiro Ristovski, who was the Minister of Education in the government of Nikola Gruevski, last week, in a statement to Deutsche Welle, encouraged VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs to get involved in parliamentary activities, pointing out that it was not surprising that a second group of opposition parliamentarians was ready to join the processes of reconciliation and the […]
“For united Macedonia”, was formed by VMRO-DPMNE and had fictitious leaders. At the protests of “For a united Macedonia” 80 percent of the present were from VMRO-DPMNE that provided all the requisites that were used. I have seen all the leaders of the protests at Kiril Bozinovski headquarters of VMRO-DPMNE, said the defendant Aleksandar Vasilevski-Ninja […]
It is obvious that the goal was to declare a state of emergency, and the question is what would have happened to the country. The investigation to check the information that the military actively participated in the incidents in the Parliament. It is indicative that Nikola Gruevski was out of the country, so it should […]
The protests will be held at least until New Year’s Eve in front of the Parliament of Macedonia, where the new stages of the constitutional changes are taking place. Citizens gathering in front of the Assembly on daily basis require MPs to resign and not accept the change in the country’s constitutional name and acceptance […]
Concluding the part dedicated to the government’s economic failures, promises that the government will be held accountable for all the bad deeds it has done to Macedonia, and the announcements that the opposition party will defeat them all one by one, Hristijan Mickoski asked his supporters and supporters to sing “We have but one name […]
Not even the stepping down from power, the intra-party turbulence, the turmoil, the shifts, the resignations, the trials, the allegations of crime and effective verdicts for top party officials significantly affected the ratings of VMRO-DPMNE. On the contrary, if the opinion poll conducted by the M-prospect agency for Telma’s project and the Macedonian Center for […]
– 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 […]
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 […]
In a black elegant dress and hairstyle with curls, Ganka Cvetanova for a moment caught the attention of those present in the building of the new Baroque theater where the opposition celebrated October 23rd – the day when the historical VMRO was formed 125 years ago. The appearance of the Minister of Culture in the […]
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 […]
GROM’s leader Stevco Jakimovski estimates that with Gruevski’s escape we are all defeated: both the government and the opposition, the whole justice and himself.”But the biggest culprits are those who created the assumptions about the escape. Human rights violations, procedural law violations, trial without a lawyer, trial in enormously short deadlines, trial for a ridiculous […]
