Gruevski hiding from justice, arrest warrant to be issued


The Skopje Criminal Court issued an order yesterday to arrest former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who did not hand himself to the authorities on Friday for serving his two-year prison sentence in the Sutka penitentiary. The court also asked to issue an arrest warrant for Gruevski, and the Ministry of Interior, as it is stated, […]

VMRO sister parties to Mickoski: You need to change your behavior!


The way you treat MPs from the party that voted for constitutional changes is unacceptable. It’s good that you don’t block the Assembly, but it’s not good that you are walking the road to isolation. You need to show that you really are for the EU and NATO. These are the main messages that the […]

Excluded VMRO-DPMNE MP Aleksandrova for Nezavisen Vesnik: We have the support of the EPP


MP Emilija Aleksandrova met with EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn and MEP David McCalister in Helsinki. Aleksandrova told Nezavisen Vesnik that at the meetings they discussed the importance and perspective of Macedonia towards the European Union, and in that direction it was pointed out that they would have the support of the MPs who advocate […]

Hahn: I applaud VMRO-DPMNE reformers’ courage in voting for the Prespa Agreement


Great meeting, tweeted early Thursday Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn after a brief discussion with a delegation of the VMRO-DPMNE reformers, represented by Petar Bogojeski, MP Emilija Aleksandrova and former minister Nikola Todorov, who were recently excluded from the party. The three take part at the European People’s Party (EPP) […]

They change the name and they impoverish the people


Aleksandar Nikoloski Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE Each political party tends to come to power in order to implement its policies, create new projects, open new jobs, raise the people’s living standard and implement state policies. The goal of each political party is to create a better life for citizens and to implement state strategic policies […]

Daul invited Mickoski’s reformers to Helsinki


The official VMRO-DPMNE four, led by President Hristijan Mickoski, will receive an unexpected escort at the European People’s Party (EPP) congress in Helsinki, where a candidate for president of the European Commission is to be elected. The EPP’ President Joseph Daul, sent a personal invitation to the reforming wing, led by Kostadin Bogdanov and Petar […]

Micevski: Everything that is Macedonian can be erased with one amendment


VMRO-DPMNE will take part in the commission’s debate on the draft amendments on constitutional changes that begins today. The opposition believes that this way they will get another chance to expose the proposals of the government, which, as they say, are allowing other things that have not been discussed before to pass. Coordination meetings of […]

Reconciliation commission initiated by the independent MP group to be established Monday


Establishment of the reconciliation commission, initiated by the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition For Better Macedonia, will be discussed at next week’s coordination meeting, agreed Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, Vice Speakers and whips on Monday. The delay resulted from today’s absence of Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska from the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition […]

Gruevski will keep his mandate, but not his freedom


The chances of depriving the former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski of his parliamentary mandate due to the final verdict on the case ‘Tank’ are very small. The two-thirds majority, which passed the decision to join the constitutional changes, is unlikely to be repeated in the case of Gruevski. His until recently fellow party members, who […]

VMRO-DPMNE will appeal the decision on freezing the party’s property in Strasbourg


VMRO-DPMNE prepares an appeal to the Strasbourg court after the court’s decision to positively respond to the SPO’s demand for freezing the property. The main opposition party believes that it is a politically motivated decision. “First and foremost, there is no mandate, authority and competence to initiate a request for the determination of the interim […]

PM Zaev accepts proposals from VMRO-DPMNE independent MP group


Prime Minister Zaev accepted the proposals of the independent MP group of VMRO-DPMNE and Coalition for Better Macedonia and the Government will incorporate these proposals in the draft-constitutional amendments it is set to forward to the Parliament today, said MP Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska. Kanceska-Milevska told a press conference their request for safeguards of the identity would […]

Mijalkov shakes or strengthens Mickoski’s position


On Monday evening, the president of the Youth Forces Union of VMRO-DPMNE Luka Krzaloski with his crew was in Strumica where they watched the exhibition and the documentary film about the revolutionaries from that part of Macedonia. Thirty hours later, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s Young Forces resigned. He thought about it long and hard, but […]

SPO freezes VMRO-DPMNE’s entire property


At the request of the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, a judge of the Basic Court Skopje 1 issued a decision imposing a temporary measure for freezing property of the political party VMRO-DPMNE. The measure has frozen a total of 69 real estate properties, including the building where the party’s headquarters are located, the SPO said. […]

Mijalkov is waiting on Mickoski to see if he will file a lawsuit


Former director of the UBK, Saso Mijalkov, who was expelled from VMRO-DPMNE, appeared in the courtroom today for the “Titanic 2” case for election irregularities. Mijalkov was not available for statements and said that he had come here for trial and that he would give a statement on another occasion. Asked whether he would file […]

Did they get into a fight after their post-referendum meeting?


VMRO-DPMNE refuses to respond to the letter sent by the excluded Saso Mijalkov to the party leadership. The estimates in the “White Palace” are that any further interference into the quarrel with the man they consider the main culprit for the division in the Parliament will bring only harm, especially as it was clearly known […]

MP Rangelova resigns as head of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE


MP Daniela Rangelova resigned from the post of president of the Union of Women of VMRO-DPMNE. She says that despite President Mickoski’s suggestion to remain in office for a year’s term, she had to leave because of apparent disagreements with the policies of the party’s leadership. “I can not accept to be part of this […]

Danev: VMRO-DPMNE submitted amnesty draft-law for the involved in the April 27 events


 VMRO-DPMNE on Monday submitted to Parliament a draft-law on amnesty for people suspected, accused or convicted for their involvement in the 2017 storming of Parliament. Speaking at a news conference, Dragan Danev, MP and coordinator of the VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group, called on all political parties and their leaders, including Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, to read […]

Zaev to meet with the new parliamentary group on constitutional amendments


The new independent parliamentary group, formed by eight MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition “For Better Macedonia”, which voted “for” accession to constitutional changes, will meet today with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the ministers of foreign affairs and justice, Nikola Dimitrov and Renata Treneska Deskoska, to discuss the draft amendments to the Constitution that […]

Kostadin Bogdanov: VMRO-DPMNE plays according to a well-planned scenario


Only ten months after the entry of the “reform wing” in the structures of VMRO-DPMNE, they came to their exclusion from the party bodies. Kostadin Bogdanov, who was part of the Executive Committee, doubts that the entire process of the agreement with Greece, the vote in the Assembly and the subsequent purges is a well-planned […]