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The activities of the presidential candidates continued on Thursday too. SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski’s caravan visited Cesinovo-Oblesevo, Vinica, and Kocani. “I know citizens will make the right decision on 24 April,” he stated. The same day, in an interview with Fokus, Pendarovski said the NATO integration process was one of the most important processes completed during his first term. “I believe ...

VMRO-DPMNE-endorsed presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova’s election HQ has submitted a petition over discrimination and insults by SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski and persons in his campaign. The petition, the HQ said on Thursday, has been submitted to the State Election Commission (SEC), Discrimination Protection Commission, the OSCE/ODIHR, and the Helsinki Committee.

SDSM-endorsed presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski will submit to the Discrimination Prevention Commission a petition over hate speech, insults, and discrimination by candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova and the party endorsing her, VMRO-DPMNE. On multiple occasions, at public gatherings and rallies, they made personal insults and defamations directed at Pendarovski, which not only violate his dignity, reputation, and honour, but also contain ...

Implementing the recommendations of the EU and its peer-review mission will be the Judicial Council’s priority in the period ahead. The members have referred to that commitment in the Annual Report on 2023, which will be sent to Parliament. In addition, Council President Vesna Dameva said on Thursday that there would be commitment also to the fundamental obligation of protecting ...

The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has passed the Western Balkans Democracy and Prosperity Act. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Roger Wicker, authors of the 2022 document, welcomed the passage of the draft-law. Senators Chris Van Hollen, Dick Durbin, Thom Tillis, and Ben Cardin are co-sponsors. “Today, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a message of renewed commitment to Western ...

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 ...

Activities of the presidential candidates have continued. SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski was in Debar, Rostuse, and Gostivar. ”I have been and will remain the President of all citizens regardless of their religious, national, or any other affiliation,” he said, adding that only a double victory by him and SDSM guaranteed that North Macedonia would move forward and not return to “the ...

Commenting on the statements by CDU MP Peter Beyer regarding the constitutional changes issue, made in Tuesday’s interview with Sitel, SDSM has said it has been once again confirmed that VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski tells different things to North Macedonia’s citizens and to people abroad. “Mickoski cannot be trusted at all,” SDSM noted on Wednesday. GROM presidential candidate Stevco Jakimovski, ...

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani has said he has facts and information regarding the 24 September 2023 Banjska events that he will present at a closed session of the Government in order for it to be re-examined and decided whether North Macedonia should continue to be part of Open Balkan. As he explained on Wednesday, though he hasn’t attended an event ...

Commenting on Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani and the Srebrenica draft resolution co-sponsorship issue, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Maricic said on Wednesday said that North Macedonia’s stand had been very clear and laid down as early as the 2010 Declaration in Parliament where that was condemned as genocide. However, in his view, there should be a distinction, that is, ...