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Judicial Council Report to Most likely Be Completed After Holidays

The Judicial Council will not release in the coming days the report resulting from the insight into the work on the Target-Fortress, Vault, Transporter, and Alpha cases, as President Vesna Dameva announced. According to Kanal 5 TV information, part of the members of the Council’s three-member group haven’t been to work for several days because they have been using days ...

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Constitutional Changes Issue: Latest Developments

On behalf of DUI, Bujar Osmani has already confirmed official that public debates are starting on the topic of constitutional changes that will be taking place in Parliament. The start of consultations with NGOs, experts, but also with parties and MPs several days from now, immediately after Orthodox Christmas has been confirmed by SDSM too. The first consultation activities about ...

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Mickoski Expects Early Elections in 2023

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan MIckoski expects 2023 to see early elections and as he says, citizens get a government, they will elect. The opposition leader adds that he encourages MPs that are giving signals with regards to dissolution of Parliament not to succumb to the ruling structure’s pressures. Mickoski declines to comment on the alleged developments in relation to SDSM based ...

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Politicians’ Send New Year’s Messages

In a video on the occasion of New Year’s, PM Dimitar Kovacevski promises to citizens that 2023 will be a better year than 2022. In it, he points out that tough decisions were made for the European future. VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, too, sent a holiday message. “We have a right to a future that will be better for our ...

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Zaev Reportedly Plans to Succeed Pendarovski as President

If VMRO-DPMNE wins the PM post in early elections that would be held thanks to ex-SDSM leader Zoran Zaev’s wing, Zaev himself plans as the next President. This is claimed by the Plusinfo portal, citing partisan sources within both SDSM and the ethnic Albanian ruling bloc. It’s about a series of texts, according to which Zaev, through internal turmoil within ...

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North Macedonia Takes over OSCE Chairpersonship-In-Office

On 1 January, North Macedonia took over the OSCE Chairpersonship-in-Office. Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani is the new OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. The Organisation works on all-encompassing aspects of security related to the political-military, economic-ecological, and human dimension. Through its unique approach, the OSCE contributes to regional peace, cooperation, and overall development. Under the motto “It’s About People”, North Macedonia’s Chairpersonship-in-Office will focus ...

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Session for Parliamentary Questions Held

The central topic at Thursday’s session for parliamentary questions was the issue of controversial Macedonian citizenship documents. VMRO-DPMNE MP Dragan Kovacki asked PM Dimitar Kovacevski whether he had known before he had picked Zarko Milosevski as Director of the Agency for National Security, that he, as an operative, had signed the document concerning Oleksandr Onyschenko and if he hadn’t, whether ...

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Mickoski Expects Next Year to See Successful No-Confidence Motion

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski expects 61 MPs to be found in 2023 for there to be a successful no-confidence motion against the Government. After that, he expects Parliament to be dissolved and early elections to be held. As the VMRO-DPMNE leader stated on Thursday, he has signals, while there is a big chance of 14 or 21 May being election ...

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BESA: Government Fights only to Satisfy Interests of ‘DUI’s Clans’

BESA will not form a pre-election coalition with VMRO-DPMNE. As the leader of the party, Bilall Kasami, said on Thursday, the coalition with SDSM was a mistake BESA wants to avoid repeating. In his view, the Government fights only to satisfy the interests of “DUI’s clans”. Kasami’s standpoint is that the constitutional changes can be made after elections too because, ...

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Anti-Pollution Measures Reactivated in Skopje

The threshold of alarming due to excessive pollution has once again been activated in the capital. The Environment and Physical Planning Ministry said on Thursday the threshold had been exceeded in the settlements of Lisice and Centar. As a result, the recommendations and measures for protection have entered into force. On Thursday afternoon, according to IQ Air, Skopje was the ...

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