On Saturday night, VLEN presidential candidate Arben Taravari’s billboard near the Skopje Zoo was damaged by fire. Taravari’s camp has urged authorities to find those responsible. “We would like to believe this is an accident, but the other side of the billboard was not even touched,” VLEN said on Sunday, adding that those responsible had to be punished by the ...

In an interview with RFE Macedonian, VLEN presidential candidate Arben Taravari says the constitutional changes are the only option on the EU path. “I said in 2022 in June, too, when the European proposal was adopted for the Macedonia-Bulgaria deal – all those negotiations were non-transparent and non-inclusive. However, considering that was accepted and passed in Parliament, it’s a fact ...

The SDSM-VMRO-DPMNE accusations over the alleged fake news issue have continued. VMRO-DPMNE said on Saturday that President and presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski, Intelligence Agency Director Erold Musliu, and SDSM Secretary-General Mile Zecevic had developed a scheme for falsification of documents and for fake news for election purposes. As the opposition stressed, Israeli strategist Assaf Eisen, who’s part of the group ...

A person has been suspected of impersonating as an Agency for National Security employee and managing to extort 180,000 euros from a company manager. The company manager, aged 54, would give the person three cars, two mobile phones, gold rings, and other jewellery, for the death threats against him and his family to stop. On 5 April, however, police caught ...

On Thursday, SDSM-endorsed presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski started his activities to win a second term. At the opening of his election HQ in Skopje, he said that considering the number of candidates, seven, nobody could win in the first round. However, he is convinced that he will win in the second round and get another term. Pendarovski held his first ...

The VLEN coalition has officially presented its MP candidate list carriers. As it explained on Thursday, it consists of experienced and honest intellectuals, “unlike our opponents, who have washed staff and US-blacklisted persons suspected of corruption scandals”. Party leaders Mexhiti, Gashi, and Kasami  are the carriers in Electoral Districts 1, 2, and 6, respectively, while Shener Bilalli, Mendurim Zekmani, Salim ...

On Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski held a meeting with Jillian Stirk, Head of the ODIHR election observation mission (EOM). At the meeting, where he was accompanied by party Vice President Timco Mucunski, Mickoski said he expected a fair and democratic election atmosphere. As his party said in the press-release, Mickoski also briefed OSCE/ODIHR representatives on suspicions concerning potential abuse ...

Despite the reactions from VMRO-DPMNE, the head of the Political Research Institute, Vladimir Bozinovski, and the public broadcaster, SDSM has maintained its stand on the alleged fake news plan. “VMRO-DPMNE has used the same forms of action and abuse of state resources, as well as propaganda, from the most glorious days of Nikola Gruevski. That means a system of abuse ...

In an interview with TV21, US Ambassador Angela Aggeler, asked about the possibility of constitutional changes being made before the formation of the government, says she believes it is feasible. “I believe that there have been precedents, not for decades, I think, but there have been precedents when amendments were passed during technical governments. And so, one of the things ...

The Council of the EU’s presidency and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on setting up a Reform and Growth Facility for the Western Balkans. The Facility is the centrepiece of the Growth Plan for the Western Balkans presented by the Commission in November 2023. The Facility will cover the period from 2024 to 2027 and is expected ...