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The Head of the EU Delegation, Ambassador David Geer, has declined to comment on DUI presidential candidate Bujar Osmani’s comments that the government will not be formed without a deal on constitutional changes. As he pointed out on Monday, he declines to comment on pre-election messages. Asked whether such comments could be a prelude to a political crisis, Ambassador Geer ...

One North Macedonia citizen has applied for evacuation assistance to leave Israel, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “He has been given a travel certificate to leave the country. Also, the SOS Centre, here in Skopje, received a phone call from a company that notified us it had four employees in Israel, just so that we have them in consideration ...

On Monday, Health Minister Ilir Demiri urged patience regarding the general strike started by private residents. “Until 2017, they had had no income. I am not saying that the current income level is enough. I want them to be at the level of public health residents. However, that requires budgeting, which cannot be done before the elections,” he stressed. Demiri ...

17 Idrizovo prison police officers have been detained, charged, and taken before a judge. The arrests took place on Monday morning, following a multiple-month investigation. For five of them, there is reasonable suspicion that in October of last year, in a premeditated manner, they enabled a prisoner, Zulqufli Nuredini from Batinci, to escape. One is suspected of helping the others, ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on dry roads. 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 according to the ...

The activities of the presidential candidates continued over the weekend. SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski, who’s running for a second term, met citizens in Tetovo on Saturday, where he said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski was afraid of his predecessor, Nikola Gruevski, returning. “If Gruevski returns, it will be known who’s top dog there,” he stated, adding that Gruevski had actually made Mickoski ...

At VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova’s rally in Tetovo on Friday, party leader Hristijan Mickoski said that SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti, Deputy PM Artan Grubi, and President Stevo Pendarovski, had been creating a plan to make the Criminal Code changes in order for a majority to be secured over the constitutional changes. However, Kovacevski said ...

In an interview with Sitel on Saturday, Deputy PM Artan Grubi, who’s part of DUI, said if Bujar Osmani didn’t enter the second round, his party’s votes would be given to the party that will agree to the President being elected in Parliament in the future. “We have a very clear stand. Mister Ahmeti has said that too, while that ...

On Saturday, the Administrative Court said it had accepted the lawsuit filed by the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors against the decision made four days prior by the State Commission for Prevention of Corruption (SCPC), which had accepted the complaint filed by the election HQ of VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova. The Court abolished the SCPC’s decision and ...

Goran Grujevski, former head of the Interior Ministry’s Fifth Administration, was arrested on Saturday in Zagreb on the basis of an international warrant issued by North Macedonia’s authorities. However, he was released the following day. Croatia’s Interior Ministry and INTERPOL submitted the information to North Macedonia’s Interior Ministry about Grujevski’s release on Sunday morning. According to Telma sources, the decision ...