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On Monday, the Administrative Court ruled in favour of the State Commission for Prevention Commission (SCPC) in the case concerning the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors. As the Court explained, the SCPC’s decision ordering the Academy to stop the process for candidate selection and training is legally founded. The SCPC, it was also explained, applied the guidelines presented in ...

On Tuesday, caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski attended a meeting on the elections, where the additional Deputy Minister, Mitko Bojmacaliev, the heads of the Agency for National Security and Public Security Bureau, Chief Public Prosecutor Kocevski, and representatives of prosecutor’s offices throughout the country participated as well. At the meeting, Toskovski expressed gratitude for the successful cooperation so far from ...

In Monday’s interview with TV21, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti confirmed that there was a deal signed between his party with the wing of Alliance for Albanians headed by Arben Taravari, BESA, DPA, and Alternative. According to the document, there will be “no partnership with political parties that are against the constitutional changes and against North Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic path”.

On Stefan Lazarov’s podcast on Monday, the former owner of the now defunct 1 TV station, Bojan Jovanovski (also known as Boki 13), whose appeal in the International Alliance case was accepted at the start of the month, said that the ex-head of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption, former Prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska, who ...

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 the last day of the campaign for the first round of the presidential election, SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski visited Demir Hisar, Resen, and Bitola. He once again urged citizens to show, as he said, that they know what the right option is. “Together with the SDSM-led coalition’s MP candidates, we’re fighting for a better life for all, for youth to ...

The campaign for the parliamentary elections has continued. In Sveti Nikole, SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski described the elections as key to the future. “These elections are a vote in favour or against our European future,” he said. Regarding DUI’s rally the previous day, in Skopje, Kovacevski stated that North Macedonia was a country also of the ethnic Albanian community. “Nobody ...

On Monday, in Strumica, police received a report that DUI presidential candidate Osmani’s billboard in the centre of the city had been vandalised with paint. Also that day, additional Deputy Interior Minister Bojmacaliev said the person who had broken into and entered VMRO-DPMNE MP Lefkov’s office for meetings with citizens in Kocani had been found.

On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE alleged that the Mayors of Probistip and Kriva Palanka, as well as the Public Revenue Office’s Director, SDSM MP candidate Sanja Lukarevska, were abusing institutions. “I am being informed by people on the ground that the Mayors are abusing institutions and pressuring citizens. The same is being done by Lukarevska, who is directly abusing institutions in both ...

Education Minister Jeton Shaqiri is ready to withdraw the communication sent to him last week for primary schools to work on two Saturdays because of the non-working days during the double elections. The Ministry is trying to find alternatives following reactions from parents and the Trade Union of Education, Science, and Culture. The decision by Shaqiri for primary school students ...