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On Monday, with six votes in favour, Bitola Higher Prosecutor’s Office Prosecutor Irina Trajkoska-Strezoski was elected President of Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors. Her term will last four years. Among the other candidates part of the race were: Criminal Court Judges Olja Ristova and Nenad Saveski, Civil Court Judge Andrej Dimovski, and the Academy’s Deputy Director, Ilir Iseni.

On Monday, at the trial over last year’s kidnapping and murder of teenager Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, Vanja’s mother, Zorica Gjorcevska, said that the girl’s father, Aleksandar Gjorcevski, one of the defendants, had suspected from the start that their daughter had been kidnapped, without revealing the reason for his suspicions. The mother also explained why the teacher called her ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road conditions. ...

Reactions to the abolition of the Balancer tool have continued. VLEN co-leader and Deputy Prime Minister Izet Mexhiti stated on Friday that a working group would be formed in the coming days that would compromise university professors. They, he added, will discuss models and drafts, and will present the best text to regulate the issue of equitable representation. “It will ...

In an interview with RFE Macedonian, DUI’s Kreshnik Bekteshi, asked when the key moment would be for DUI to decide to start its protests being announced by it, said, the party was currently holding meetings within all branches and had already opened a debate on how DUI should act. In that regard, Bekteshi called on the rest of citizens to ...

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti held a meeting with Zhelyazko Radukov, at which, as his party said, the former assured the Bulgarian Ambassador that close cooperation with regards to the European future and good-neighbourliness would continue even more. “The EU-approved negotiating framework is clear and must be implemented in order for us to proceed on our path towards Brussels. The Bulgarian community ...

On Saturday, PM Hristijan Mickoski was asked a question about the meeting held earlier between DUI leader Ali Ahmeti and Bulgarian Ambassador Zhelyazko Radukov at which it had been said that the Bulgarian community in North Macedonia was a reality. “Figures show whether that is a reality or not. Math is an exact science. According to those figures, several hundred people ...

President Gordana Sljanovska Davkova said in an interview with TV21 that she expected the EU to have a clear strategy on Skopje, too, following the decoupling decision. North Macedonia, in her view, shouldn’t be proving that it has always been part of Europe and that it’s compatible. “Whether in the frames of the Berlin Process, whether in the frames of ...

People’s Uprising Against Fascism Day, 11 October, was marked on Friday. President Gordana Siljanovska Davkova addressed a solemn academy, describing 11 October as the day when the Macedonian people, without hesitation, had chosen the right side in the biggest war in history, WWII. “Nobody liberated us. We did that ourselves, with the help of the over 110,000-strong National-Liberation Army for ...

The traffic on the state roads is uninterrupted, on mostly dry roads. All road routes in the country are passable. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and cuts. JP Makedonijapat appeals for careful management of the vehicles, respect for the posted traffic signals, as well as adjustment of the speed according to the road ...