Despite his invitation to the master debates, President Stevo Pendarovski, who’s running for another term, has rejected VLEN presidential candidate Arben Taravari’s invitation to a debate on Saturday. As he explained, however, as the current President, he can’t participate until the start of the campaign. Regarding the other five candidates, Taravari said he hadn’t received a response from them even ...

On Thursday, the VLEN coalition announced the names of its carriers of MP candidate lists. Democratic Movement leader Izet Mexhiti will head the list in Electoral District 1, Alternative leader Afrim Gashi in Electoral District 2, BESA leader Bilall Kasami in Electoral District 6. In Electoral District 5, the carrier will be from Alliance for Albanians. However, a decision still ...

In an interview with Kanal 5, Karpos Mayor and GROM presidential candidate Stevco Jakimovski again says regarding his blacklisting by the US that he isn’t responsible for any wrongdoing. “Nothing is true, everything is arbitrary. Everything is on the basis of snitch talk,” he points out, adding that Karpos is the only municipality where all competences have been transferred to ...

Thursday’s hearing in Ohrid over the 19 January 2023 physical attack on Hristijan Pendikov, who was the secretary of the now-defunct Tsar Boris III Bulgarian club, was postponed due to the absence of one of the defendants and two of the three witnesses that were supposed to testify. Pendikov’s lawyer submitted to the Basic Court neuropsychiatric expertise seeking compensation of ...

Over his blacklisting by the US, Karpos Mayor and Stevco Jakimovski filed on Wednesday a criminal charge against an unknown perpetrator. He pointed the finger at, as he stated, Macedonian snitches. “This is not from investigative organs, this is not from representatives of the Embassy and official American policy, but rather from Macedonian snitches that have ventured in these dishonest ...

Stevco Jakimovski abused using his official position to interfere with public processes that concern, inter alia, public procurement and urban planning to benefit himself and his associates, the State Department’s press services told VoA Macedonian on Wednesday, asked to comment on the statement by the Karpos Mayor and GROM presidential candidate that the blacklisting represents “interference of foreign intelligence services” ...

Asked by Telma on Wednesday about the decision to blacklist also ex-Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva’s deceased husband, the US Embassy said it was about an administrative error. As it added, it has full confidence in the evidence and gathered information requested by it, according to US law, to blacklist Janeva. “Those data are carefully checked both here and in Washington ...

On Wednesday, Deputy PM for European Affairs Bojan Marcic called on VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonio Milososki to, as early as that day, convene a session of Parliament’s Foreign Policy Committee, chaired by him, for the restrictive measures law to be passed in the frames of that body and then forwarded to a plenary session in order for it to be passed ...

Commenting on SDSM’s calls to answer questions about the signatures for Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, VMRO-DPMNE said SDSM and its presidential candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, had once again tried to hide their “failure” and upcoming defeat. “The submission of the candidacy is a technical process. Professor Siljanovska Davkova had an all-time high when it comes to citizen signatures, which is what pains ...

The Judicial Council will elect and dismiss judges in the pre-election period only in emergencies. However, at its session on Wednesday, it didn’t specify what those emergencies were. Supreme Court President Besa Ademi fiercely reacted to that, saying the Council’s explanatory notes were the biggest problem of the body, which had been noted by the EU’s peer-review mission too. The ...