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At Wednesday’s press-conference, SDSM leader Venko Filipce said the “controversial press-releases” by the authorities about how ex-Deputy PM Artan Grubi, a suspect in the Lottery case, had left the country gave people the right to think a deal had been previously reached. “First, it was said that he left in a diplomatic vehicle. Then, it was said he crossed the ...

In response to SDSM leader Venko Filipce’s accusations over the case of Artan Grubi, VMRO-DPMNE MP Brane Petrusevski said the opposition party was defending the ex-Deputy PM because he’d been the tool that had prevented the party from losing power as early as 2022. “SDS[M], Zaev, who handed over the party to Dimitar Kovacevski and Venko Filipce, who succeeded the ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roadways, in some higher places with remnants of slushy snow on the roadway after the intervention of our duty teams. There are traffic bans for heavy goods vehicles on the Straža, Mavrovo and Gjavato mountain passes. There is also a traffic ban for heavy goods vehicles on the ...

In the Lottery case, the Criminal Court has rejected the appeal filed by the defence of ex-Deputy PM Artan Grubi, which means the 30-day detention measure issued against him on 17 December has been confirmed. The measure will enter into force once he becomes accessible to prosecution organs. Fokus, citing police sources, has reported that Kosovan Honorary Consul, businessperson Arsim ...

On Tuesday, asked whether a restrictive measure law would be adopted, PM Hristijan Mickoski stated that the government would not take unconstitutional steps, but rather work in the direction of positive legal norms and the Constitution, which it considered to be two key pillars. According to him, North Macedonia’s legislation provides for everything when it comes to persons blacklisted by ...

In an interview with the Top Tema (Top Topic) show on Telma, Interior Minister Pance Toskovski again said he would like to see Artan Grubi dare and return to the country to prove, as he claimed, that he was crystal clean. “The Interior Ministry has the capacity to guarantee his safety”, Toskovski added. The former Deputy PM, who is a ...

On Tuesday, after the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption had submitted the opinion to apply the Amnesty Law to ex-Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski and former ministers Spiro Ristevski and Mile Janakieski, the trial over the 27 April Organisers case, which concerns the issue of organisation of the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament, the ...

It’s certain that after the holidays, Parliament will initiate no-confidence motions against Judicial Council members elected by MPs. PM Hristijan Mickoski said on Tuesday the government was thinking about starting such activities in January. “We’re thinking about several moves, some measures that we will take after the holidays because despite the announcements that those phenomena of anxiety, diarrhoea, cramps, and ...

On Tuesday, MPs voted through the two authentic interpretations related to the Foreign Affairs Law, which means there is now a possibility of ambassadors who hadn’t completed the hearing process before they started their term abroad being recalled. The two interpretations concern two articles of the Law that, prior to Tuesday’s adoption, had been voted through in the frames of ...

Traffic on the state roads is ongoing in winter conditions, on wet roadways, in some higher places with remnants of slushy snow on the roadway after the intervention of our duty teams. Snowfall of variable intensity is recorded in the western and southwestern parts of the country. Smaller landslides may occur on certain road routes that pass through gorges and ...