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On Friday, Nikola Gruevski’s MP mandate wasn’t taken away because there were just 58 votes, that is, 22 fewer than what was needed. The eight MPs from the opposition who had at the end of October supported the constitutional changes procedure weren’t present during the vote. 29 VMRO-DPMNE MPs voted against, but nobody wanted to discuss the matter. “We don’t ...

A 30-day detention measure has been ordered for five suspects in the new case opened by the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), dubbed “Empire”, Jordan Kamcev, Cvetan Pandeleski, Nenad Josifovic, Zorica Arsovska and Todor Mircevski, who were questioned on Friday before a judge in a previous judge. Prosecutors Katica Janeva and Lile Stefanovska picked up the decisions on the detention orders ...

On Friday, Parliament rejected the request from VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group coordinator Nikola Dimovski for the party’s draft law to pardon persons charged, suspected and convicted in the case concerning the 27 April 2017 attacks to be part of the 65th session. “Six-seven laws in a shortened procedure about which we weren’t informed have become part of the agenda, but our ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on dry roads. Moderate traffic outside urban areas. No delays at border crossings, except the necessary period for customs formalities. Landslides are possible along the roads of Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo ...

On Thursday, the Constitutional Committee Issues adopted the first draft amendment for a change of the Constitution, with 10 votes in favour and five against. The draft amendment proposes a replacement of “the Republic of Macedonia” with the new name everywhere in the Constitution except in Article 36, where there is a historical aspect. The debate on the second draft ...

Regarding Article 36 of the Constitution, where the new name will not replace the current one in the document, to which there have been reactions from Greece, PM Zoran Zaev said on Thursday those were historical parts in the Constitution itself. “The Greek side understands that,” he pointed out. As regards Wednesday’s protest outside the Criminal Court and calls for ...

All appeals against the decision of the judge for execution of sanctions in the case of former PM Nikola Gruevski have arrived, the Criminal Court confirmed on Thursday. As it added, the three-deadline deadline in which the Criminal Council needs to make a decision on the appeals would start on Friday. Gruevski was on Thursday supposed to report to serve ...

Commenting on the meetings on the sidelines of the EPP Congress in Helsinki, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski told Sitel TV that he had an opportunity to present his party’s view on the situation in Macedonia. As he added, VMRO-DPMNE continues to oppose the name deal that is, “this whole process to change the Constitution aiming at a change of the ...

On Thursday, the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn, held a meeting in Helsinki with a delegation of VMRO-DPMNE’s reformist wing, consisting of Petar Bogojeski, MP EMilija Aleksandrova and former Health Minister Nikola Todorov, who had recently been excluded from the party, but are participating in the EPP Congress in Finland’s capital upon an invitation ...

In an open letter to Hristijan Mickoski, former UBK Director Saso Mijalkov, who was recently excluded from VMRO-DPMNE, accuses party leader Hristijan Mickoski of suffering an embarrassment internationally by sister parties that are part of the EPP because of the fact that representatives of those that had supported the name deal and had been excluded from VMRO-DPMNE were invited to ...