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Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. Reduced visibility due to the appearance of fog of 100-150m on the roads Skopje – Veles, Veles – Negotino, Negotino – D. Kapija and M. Brod – Kichevo. JP Makedonijapat appeals for vigilance and adjustment of speed according to road conditions. Smaller landslides can ...

Thursday saw the last Q&A session of Parliament for this year. Among the main topics was the murders of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski. VMRO-DPMNE MP Igor Janusev said if the police had acted in time regarding the search for Zezovski’s vehicle, the murder of Gjorcevska would have perhaps been avoided. On the other hand, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski said ...

The preparations for the caretaker cabinet will start after the holidays. Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi, who’s been nominated to be the caretaker PM, said on Thursday there was no special procedure regarding the formation. First, he will resign and his successor, Jovan Mitreski, will be elected, which will be followed by resignations of Ministers and Deputy Ministers. Regarding the election ...

“A session of the body is not being planned for today and for tomorrow,” Marija Georgievska, Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Election and Appointment Issues, told Kanal 5 on Thursday regarding the process to elect a State Election Commission (SEC) member. She didn’t reveal whether she would stick to her proposal for both candidates, Abdush Demiri and Zulfi Adili, to ...

The Judiciary Development Strategy will be used to improve the low level of confidence in the sector. It provides for a change to the election of Judicial Council members and an obligation for a comprehensive explanatory note in procedures to promote and dismiss judges and prosecutors, while there are also new rules to elect the Head of the Public Prosecutor’s ...

It’s the Judicial Council’s turn to act, Justice Minister Krenar Lloga said on Thursday regarding the cases of Judge Elvedin Ferati and Prosecutor Jetmir Bexheti. Ferati is the Judge from Tetovo who faked his GPA in order to enrol at the Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors. He had a GPA of 7.88 (on a scale of 5 to 10) ...

On Friday, Prosecutor Fatime Fetai will contact, in writing, the Council of Public Prosecutors over her disqualification from the race for Chief Public Prosecutor (CPP) due to incomplete documentation. “I meet all conditions for the position. Since my right to participate further in the procedure has been violated, I will request for the decision to dismiss the documentation as incomplete ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. JP Makedonijapat appeals for vigilance and adjustment of speed according to road conditions. Smaller landslides can occur along the cuts and ravines, which are regularly cleaned. The MAKEDONIJAPAT PE’s on-call teams are constantly on-site and keep all roads passable.

SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski has already started talks on a broad European front with part of coalition partners. As he said on Wednesday, communication with all those supporting the EU path will be intensified in the period ahead. A meeting over the caretaker cabinet issue will be held with VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski. However, it’s still unknown when that will ...

Wednesday saw a tense session of Parliament’s Committee on Election and Appointment Issues regarding the election of a State Election Commission (SEC) member. The opposition fiercely reacted to the proposal by the body’s Chairperson, Marija Georgievska, for the two candidates, Abdush Demiri and Zulfi Adili, to be sent to a plenary session. In its view, Demiri should be elected because ...