A deadline for extradition of Ljupco Palevski, the principal suspect in the murder of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, has been presented. However, on Friday, Justice Minister Krenar Lloga declined to reveal when exactly the suspect would be extradited. As he added, he has communication with Turkish authorities, while the court procedure over Palevski in Turkiye has been completed.

In the interview with Telma on Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova said that if she became President, she’d pardon those convicted in the case concerning the 27 April 2017 storming of Parliament. “That’s how reconciliation will be reached,” she stated. The following day, however, at the conference marking the 60th anniversary of the Constitutional Court, President Stevo Pendarovski, ...

VMRO-DPMNE is yet to make a final decision on who the carrier of the party’s list of MP candidates in Electoral District 5 will be. When it comes to the District 4 carrier, the party’s Vice-President, Aleksandar Nikoloski, said on Thursday that a lot of work was ahead. The same day, Defence Minister, Slavjanka Petrovska, in the capacity of SDSM ...

The VLEN coalition has referred to DUI’s presidential candidate, Bujar Osmani, as “a patient” incapable of running the country because he was a suspect in a corruption case opened by the now-defunct Special Prosecutor’s Office. “The patient, Osmani, cannot ask for international vetting because he first must start from himself and his friends. It’s widely known that he and his ...

The Macedonian people is used to its right to existence being denied and to its cultures and history being taken away, but what’s scary is that over the past period, there has been not only denial from abroad, but also people have self-denied themselves from within, self-giving up on the identity, the Head of the Ohrid Archdiocese, Stefan, said at ...

On Thursday, the Get a Number system for obtaining personal documents was put into use in Kumanovo. The goal is to facilitate the procedure and reduce the long lines of citizens. Interest in new documents is rather high in Kumanovo. However, on Thursday, there were not a lot of people. For now, citizens are satisfied with the system, saying they’d ...

On Thursday, additional Deputy Interior Minister Mitko Bojmacaliev, asked how many citizens were yet to obtain personal documents even though they had had their photos taken, said around 48,000 passports at a national level had been approved. “People have had their photos taken, but the documents haven’t been printed. With that, we are not meeting the legal deadline. Regarding IDs, ...

Children that have completed the three-dose DTP vaccination over the past six months will be allowed to go to kindergarten. However, they will have to complete the revaccination process after six months. The decision was made at Thursday’s session of the Infectious Diseases Commission. “The pertussis situation is not good. It is not stable. We are in this position due ...

At a session on Wednesday, the Supreme Court dismissed as unfounded the appeal of Aleksandar Gjorcevski, the father of Vanja Gjorcevska, the girl murdered last year, for abolition of his detention measure. “I’m currently divided into two worlds. One of my kids is here, but they took away the other. I don’t care where I will see in the outcome. ...

At a debate on the need for lie detector tests for officers working at border-crossings, held on Wednesday, ex-Finance Minister Xhevdet Hajredini said SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti should be the first that should actually take such a test. As he added, those responsible for the Criminal Code changes last year have no moral right to ...