SkopjeDiem Macedonia in English

“I will schedule the presidential elections on 2 or 3 February,” PS Talat Xhaferi said on Tuesday, adding that he will not be a candidate. DUI expects a deal to be reached with SDSM on a joint presidential candidate that both sides will find acceptable. The negotiations will start after the adoption of the constitutional changes. Zoran Zaev’s party has ...

PM Zoran Zaev has proposed to Parliament to dismiss Aksel Ahmedovski as Minister without Portfolio in charge of implementation and coordination of the National Strategy for Improvement of the Roma Situation in Macedonia and Adnan Kahil as Minister without Portfolio in charge of foreign investments. Zaev has proposed for Ahmedovski and Kahil to be replaced by Party for Full Emancipation ...

PS Talat Xhaferi believes that the constitutional changes matter resulting from the Prespa Agreement will be settled by mid-January. That, as he said on Tuesday, will open an opportunity for the name deal ratification law to be sent to the Official Gazette together with the one on languages without a signature by President Gjorge Ivanov. The constitutional changes will be ...

“Nikola Gruevski didn’t escape the Interior Ministry. That is a factual situation,” Interior Ministry told the 1TV show Faces. Once the investigation is complete, the details will be presented publicly. “There are a lot of questions I can ask personally, but I want the investigation to be completed all the way and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to come out and ...

Aleksandar Trajkovski isn’t the only Customs Administration employee that has visited former PM Nikola Gruevski in Budapest, the institution’s Director, Gjoko Tanasoski, confirmed on Tuesday. The man who had lunch with the former PM in a restaurant in the Hungarian capital works at the Administration’s Department for Customs Control and Investigations. He used the annual holiday to go to Hungary. ...

Decent driving conditions are reported throughout the country with patches of wet roads under shade. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen ...

The ruling majority is convinced that the constitutional amendments will receive the required two-thirds support despite the amendments announced by the Albanian opposition bloc. It expects the changes to be voted through in the final stage even with over 80 votes. Bilall Kasami’s BESA will file three amendments, which concern the languages law, Preamble and diaspora. Alliance for Albanians, too, ...

On Monday, Parliament adopted, in first reading, the Draft Law on Prevention of Corruption and Conflict of Interest. It was supported by 58 MPs, whereas 16 voted against. There will be changes in several areas, such as the one concerning the procedure for election of State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) head and members. The Deputy Minister of Justice, ...

According to Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, there are new developments in the case concerning former PM Nikola Gruevski’s escape. “There are. That will be announced by the Public Prosecutor’s Office,” he said on Monday, asked whether there were new developments and when the results would be officially presented. Regarding the no-confidence motion against him filed by VMRO-DPMNE, he said it ...

The trial over the Titanic 2 case, opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), continued on Monday. The SPO representatives presented several materials, including a telephone conversation dated 28 March 2013 between journalist Dragan Pavlovic Latas and then-PM Nikola Gruevski in which they talk about there being a repeat vote at several places in Macedonia. In another conversation, Latas and ...