If Ministers representing SDSM vote in favour of his dismissal, Stojance Angelov will leave as Crisis Management Centre Director. As he explained on Tuesday, his job is stressful and he hasn’t had a day off. However, everything will depend on the ruling majority that he and his party, Dignity, according to his announcements, will leave to head to the VMRO-DPMNE-led ...

The names of all parties that will be part of VMRO-DPMNE’s pre-election coalition will have been known by the end of this week. According to VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, other parties, in addition to the ones that have left the ruling coalition, have announced they will join. However, there are also parties that VMRO-DPMNE rejected because they didn’t share ...

On Tuesday, Ivon Velickovski’s Movement for a New Republic signed with SDSM a Memorandum of Cooperation on the eve of the elections. The Memorandum focuses on the EU path, contribution to national and collective security, and defence of North Macedonia and towards its NATO allies. At the same time, the cooperation will also focus on, inter alia, strengthening of the ...

Democratic Movement leader, former Cair Mayor, and ex-DUI Vice President Izet Mexhiti said in Monday’s interview with TV21 that, in the capacity of Mayor, he’d legalised the house of DUI’s presidential candidate, Bujar Osmani, which had been an illegal structure. “I am telling you for the first time this evening that Osmani had built his house unlawfully, while I, in ...

Parliament is preparing a Declaration to mark the fourth anniversary of North Macedonia’s NATO integration, while on Tuesday, the legislative house’s Speaker, Jovan Mitreski, organised a meeting at the Club of MPs, which was attended by, among others, ex-PMs Dimitar Kovacevski, Zoran Zaev, and Vlado Buckovski, and ex-Defence Minister Radmila Sekerinska. On social media, Mitreski said the fourth anniversary had ...

Norway has sent a donation of 76 military vehicles to North Macedonia. The transport of the 40 lorries and 36 light infantry vehicles started on Monday, at Orkanger Port. The 76 vehicles will be transported to Thessaloniki by ship. The donation, the Norwegian Embassy explained, will be used to equip the Light Infantry Battalion. “The donation symbolises the importance of ...

On Monday, Menduh Thaci’s DPA and Arjanit Hoxha’s European Democratic Party officially joined the DUI-led pre-election coalition. “This is the right moment for us to be together in a joint front. This front will be invincible,” DUI leader Ali Ahmeti stated. As he explained, the goal is EU integration, not party or personal benefits. Thaci stated that the Russian aggression ...

SDSM has levelled fierce criticism at VMRO-DPMNE’s election programme. At a press-conference on Monday, SDSM MP Martin Kostovski said the capital of Skopje and over 40 municipalities run by mayors from VMRO-DPMNE best exemplified its false promises. “They would promise modern municipalities, free transport, eco-friendly buses, capital projects, sports halls, parks, schools, streets, water supply systems. However, it’s been 2.5 ...

Just 2,691 diaspora members, in 24 countries, will vote in the presidential elections. It is estimated that around one million euros will be spent on organising the voting process, as well as on the stay abroad of members of election boards, which consist of ten persons. In China, where just 12 people have registered to vote, an entire board will ...

According to a CRPC poll for Glas.mk, published on Monday by Europe Elects, VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova would win 35.5% of votes in the election. SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski, DUI’s Bujar Osmani, ZNAM’s Maksim Dimitrievski, Levica-endorsed Biljana Vankovska, and GROM’s Stevco Jakimovski would get 29.3%, 14.3%, 9.6%, 5.1%, 4.3%, and 2% of the votes, respectively. The poll was conducted ...