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The issue for appointment of Vice-speakers of the Parliament was put on the daily order of the 2nd Parliament session that took place on Tuesday, and Vice-speakers are expected to be nominated and elected at the continuation of the session on Wednesday. VMRO-DPMNE demanded the Parliament to remove this issue from the order of business of the session, but their ...

Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ilhan Kyuchyuk, commenting on the recent announcements for boycott of Parliament and government by opposition parties from the Albanian political bloc in Macedonia, says that the opposition belongs in the Parliament. “I believe that elections in North Macedonia were fair and legitimate which were held in an extremely difficult situation during the global pandemic. ...

The newly formed Initiative Board of VMRO-DPMNE continues with demands for party leader Hristijan Mickoski to schedule a party congress at which he will officially resign from the position of party leader. The latest demands for resignation come from members of VMRO-DPMNE’s municipal branch in Aerodrom via a recently created Facebook page of the Initiative Board. “There is great discord ...

SDSM leader and PM-designate Zoran Zaev stated in an interview for TV21 that the government proposal will be submitted to the Parliament after the Parliament appoints its new vice-presidents. “First the Parliament needs to determine the number of vice-presidents, and to also verify the mandates of the new MPs that come in the position of those that are nominated as ...

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti said in an interview for TV Klan that DUI’s list of nominees for ministers in the new government will not undergo any changes. Previously, Alsat TV reported that DUI is to nominate Artan Grubi instead of Bujar Osmani as Foreign Affairs Minister due to disagreements within DUI about the new ministers. “The intra-party debates over the ...

Borce Stamov, member of the initiative board within VMRO-DPMNE that demands resignation of party leader Hristijan Mickoski, called upon Mickoski once again to resign. “The previous two leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, Ljubco Georgievski and Nikola Gruevski, resigned from the party leader position in the times when the party was facing difficulties and defeats on terrain. In order to avoid further discord ...

President of the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) Biljana Ivanovska informed at a press conference that SCPC will not file criminal charges against Finance Minister Nina Angelovska in relation to the case with the liquidation of Eurostandard Bank. “We opened a case about Angelovska’s withdrawal of her deposits from Eurostandard Bank before the National Bank shut it down ...

The Health Ministry conducted in the past 24 hours COVID-19 testing of 80 citizens, with 78 of them testing positive for COVID-19. Of the new cases, 28 are registered in Skopje, 8 in Prilep and Gostivar, 5 in Kumanovo, 4 in Debar, Tetovo and Berovo, 3 in Delcevo, 2 in Kavadarci, Kocani and Negotino and 1 in Bitola, Ohrid, Radovis, ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. 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 – Bukovo. Motorists ...

DUI MP Talat Xhaferi has been re-elected by the Parliament of Macedonia as Parliament Speaker (PS) with 62 votes in favour at the continuation of the constitutive session of the new parliamentary assembly on Friday. Xhaferi gained the support from the ruling alliance of SDSM, DUI and DPA, the MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and Levica voted against his nomination as PS ...