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Afrim Gashi’s Alternative doesn’t intend to become part of the ruling structure. As the party says, it doesn’t want to stop its fall, which started with the first round of the ruling elections. It is dumbfounded by the election calculations in its absence by the ministers from BESA and DUI, Arjanit Hoxha and Kreshnik Bekteshi, respectively, who said during a ...

At its session on Thursday, the State Election Commission (SEC) rejected all six complaints filed by Levica because the party didn’t include material evidence. Levica’s representative said that his party was aware of its oversight in terms of there not being evidence. However, as he added, Levica, as a smaller party without a lot of resources, cannot train its staff ...

The mayoral candidates who will be part of the second round of the local elections have continued their activities. Danela Arsovska, the independent candidate for Skopje supported by VMRO-DPMNE, announced there would be procurement of 250 eco-buses instead of the BRT system. As she said, the system is unfeasible because that will require additional infrastructure projects such as expansion of ...

On Thursday morning in Brussels, Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska held a meeting with European External Action Service (EEAS) Secretary-General Stefano Sannino. “North Macedonia has delivered results. The Report of the European Commission, which praised our results in reforms, transparency, the fight against corruption, institutional development, confirmed that as well,” she said, adding that all those results had been painstakingly achieved, ...

According to SDSM President Zoran Zaev, citizens have levelled clear criticism, warning, and punishment at his party. “We are understanding and accepting that voice. There is no longer tolerance for repeating the same mistakes,” he said on Wednesday. Zaev added that the ruling party listened to citizens. “From Monday, we start a process to redefine and advance the channels to ...

At the end, with the processing of data from the census, there will be no person left out, according to State Statistical Office Director Apostol Simovski. As he added, the method that was used provides a possibility to cover also those not covered by the census. For that, databases covering all citizens are used. Though there were situations, Simovski stated, ...

For now, the EU isn’t thinking about what it will do with the case of North Macedonia if the country fails to open negotiations due to the bilateral dispute with Bulgaria. In a situation of increasingly fiercer rhetoric between Skopje and Sofia and a prediction from the Bulgarian President that the dispute will last years, the only message from EU ...

North Macedonia and Albania have delivered on reforms and fulfilled the conditions for the opening of talks. That was the message sent by EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi at Tuesday’s press conference on the 2021 Enlargement Package in the European Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs. “Pending bilateral issues between North Macedonia and Bulgaria therefore need to be solved as a ...

Kumanovo mayoral candidate Maksim Dimitrievski, who is trying to secure a second term, has complained that he was being followed by an Interior Ministry vehicle and that police afterwards stopped him and took away his documents. According to the press-release issued by his Election HQ on Tuesday, the police, with the blue lights on, took him to a technical examination ...

At a press-conference on Monday night, State Election Commission (SEC) President Aleksandar Dastevski presented the preliminary election results. In the first round, VMRO-DPMNE’s coalition won 22 mayoral seats, SDSM’s coalition got nine, while DUI has for now three mayors. The deadlines for complaints are underway. The final results for 80 municipalities and the City of Skopje will be presented after ...