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“1,563 teams are engaged in updating the membership, the process ends on 21 March with the first intra-party elections for president of SDSM,” said Oliver Spasovski, Vice President of SDSM. “With the changes in the Statute for the first time, in order to show in action and to make a step forward in democratization, we will elect a president of ...

After 19 years and one unsuccessful attempt, the state will finally conduct a census of population, households and apartments in April. With the help of the votes of Alliance for Albanians and Alternative, the ruling majority passed the Law at Parliament with 62 votes in favour. There were no abstentions and no objections. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE left the hall before ...

Conducting a census during a pandemic is a big challenge, but the process can be carried out and completed according to all health protocols, said Health Minister Venko Filipce at an online conference. Filipce pointed out that the Ministry of Health and the Infectious Diseases Committee were successful during the elections, and now will be available to adopt protocols for ...

Prosecutor Fatime Fetai in her closing remarks on the “Monster” case confirmed that the four boys and the fisherman were killed near Smilkovo Lake. With this, she rejected the claim that they were allegedly killed at another location, and then brought to the lake. Fetai stressed that the massacre took place at that location, as indicated by all found traces. ...

The Health Ministry informed that Wednesday there were 356 new registered COVID-19 cases out of 1,906 tested in the country. During the same period 15 persons infected with the virus passed away. According to the Interior Ministry, 358 people were fined for not wearing face masks on Thursday. The total number of diagnosed cases in the country since the beginning ...

The Joint Commission on Historical Issues will have its first meeting of the year on Friday, following the December fiasco when both sides said talks were deadlocked. At the meeting in abbreviated format, as Kanal 5 has learned, there will be no material discussion. The whole focus will be on trying to resolve the misunderstandings over the use of the ...

After the position of Arber Ademi from DUI that they will not accept the result of the census if the Albanians are below 20 percent, on Wednesday his party said that it is a personal position, and he further explained that he was certain that the percentage of Albanians in Macedonia is higher. Acquired rights can’t be lost after the ...

President Stevo Pendarovski through his Facebook profile congratulated the newly elected US President Joe Biden. According to Pendarovski, the United States is Macedonia’s strategic partner who always supports democracy in the country. “Congratulations to the new US President Joe Biden. #US is our strategic partner who has always supported democracy in the country and our Euro-Atlantic integration,” wrote President Pendarovski. ...

The MPs and the public will have the opportunity to find out details of the Action Plan for which talks are being held between Macedonia and Bulgaria, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev confirmed on Monday. After several months of calls from the opposition, Foreign Minister Osmani responded to the invitation from the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee Antonio Milososki and ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski on Monday in Budapest had a working meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary and leader of the sister party Fidesz, Viktor Orban, at which after the veto from Sofia, the opposition party asked for support in unblocking Macedonia’s entry into the EU. “It is true that the Macedonian government has a huge delay in fulfilling ...