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At a press-conference on Monday, Toxicology Clinic employees alleged again that the Acting Organisational Director, Besia Ilazi, didn’t want to approve the employment of two candidates with a biology degree and an orderly, and was instead pushing for the 18 people whose contracts had expired in 2023. Ilazi greeted journalists in Macedonian, but then started to speak in Albanian. When ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. 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 ...

Even though VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s call unification for national unity with ZNAM and Levica saw, in response, the former’s leader, Dimitrievski, set red lines and the latter’s head, Apasiev, reject the offer, on Friday, the opposition leader once again said the opposition had to unite and that the country could no longer wait because citizens were tired. Previously, presidential ...

In the televised debate on Sunday night, all seven presidential candidates, SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski, VMRO-DPMNE-endorsed Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, GROM-endorsed Stevco Jakimovski, DUI-endorsed Bujar Osmani, Levica-endorsed Biljana Vankovska, VLEN-endorsed Arben Taravari, and ZNAM-endorsed Maksim Dimitrievski, promised that the situation in the country would improve, that they would fight corruption, and that they would stop youth emigration. Pendarovski said he would ask ...

The presidential campaign has continued. On Friday, SDSM-endorsed candidate Stevo Pendarovski visited several locations, including Butel, where he said the opposition and Bulgaria’s behaviour were the reason for the halt on North Macedonia’s EU path. VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate, Siljanovska Davkova, stated that the country was not a legal state. “VMRO-DPMNE will not allow corruption to be spread and criminals to rule,” ...

The campaign for the parliamentary elections has continued. On Friday, SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said in Ohrid that there would be constant and hard work on North Macedonia becoming the 28th EU member. “All those thinking or being tactful in order to give up on that future will have no place in the team of the future,” he said, reiterating ...

Foreign Minister and DUI presidential candidate Bujar Osmani said on Friday that he adhered to his stand on the Open Balkan initiative. As he added, he will brief the Government over the 2023 Banjska attack and it will decide whether that was in contradiction with the fundamental principle of the initiative. “I said what the fundamental goals of Open Balkan ...

With four votes in favour, at Friday’s session, the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC) made the same decision on the objection filed by the election HQ of VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova over the testing and candidate selection process within the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors during the election process. Explaining the decision, SCPC President Tatjana ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roads in some places. 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 ...

On Thursday, the participants in the parliamentary elections officially started their activities in the frames of the campaign. The SDSM-led coalition started its activities at an event in Skopje, where party leader Dimitar Kovacevski once again said he was confident the coalition would win the elections. Also, the SDSM leader stressed that there would be a decisive and more efficient ...