The presidential election campaign is starting. On Thursday, VMRO-DPMNE candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, will hold a rally in Skopje. “It’s high time to end all these heavy defeats, inconsistencies, and humiliation of our citizens’ intelligence,” party Vice President Timco Mucunski said, urging as many citizens as possible to attend Siljanovska Davkova’s rally. ZNAM leader Maksim Dimitrievski will start his campaign ...

Wednesday’s TV duel between SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski saw the two party leaders voice stands and trade criticism and accusations over many topics. Asked what type of President North Macedonia needed, SDSM leader Kovacevski said he was convinced that the candidate endorsed by his coalition, current President Stevo Pendarovski, would be re-elected. According to Kovacevski, ...

VMRO-DPMNE has fiercely rejected SDSM’s accusations over, according to the ruling party, the plan for a scheme to place fake news about ratings and parties. If SDSM doesn’t apologise, Hristijan Mickoski’s party will file a defamation lawsuit. “We most fiercely and explicitly deny the information initially reported by a medium and the lies later on supplemented by SDS[M]. There is ...

At a press-conference on Wednesday, Ziadin Sela said the Tetovo Basic Court’s decision, according to which he has the Alliance for Albanians’ seal, which means he is the party leader, was very important. Commenting on the statements by representatives from the party’s wing headed by Arben Taravari that they would appeal it, Sela stated that everybody had a right to ...

The Constitutional Court has decided against taking action upon the initiatives challenging the constitutionality of the legal changes enabling construction workers to choose to work up to 12 hours a day when it comes to strategic projects for the country, such as the Bechtel and ENKA Corridors. Though the decision was not made unanimously, it was said on Wednesday that ...

The Skopje Court of Appeals has abolished the ruling in the International Alliance case and ordered a retrial. The acquittal of ex-MP Frosina Tasevska-Remenski has been confirmed, while the appeals by Bojan Jovanovski, initially sentenced to nine years in prison, and two other defendants, J.E. and H.B., have been accepted, the Court said on Wednesday. The case concerns an alleged ...

On Tuesday, all presidential candidates except GROM’s Stevco Jakimovski signed the Fair and Democratic Election Code. The GROM leader and candidate said he was dissatisfied that the debates initiated by SDSM’s candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, who’s running for a second term, would not be held. “I will respect the Code. However, if there are no debates, I will not sign it,” ...

The election HQ of SDSM presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski, who’s running for a second term, has said that the master debates involving all presidential candidates will not be held. As it pointed out on Tuesday, though consensus had initially been reached for the two debates, the political and media circumstances currently are not sustainable for conditions to be created for ...

Ziadin Sela has won the legal battle for Alliance for Albanians with the head of the other wing, Arben Taravari. Sela himself told Kanal 5 on Tuesday that his lawyer had confirmed for him that he now had the party seal. According to the court’s decision, Sela, whose wing recently joined DUI’s pre-election coalition, is again the party leader. Commenting ...

After the postponement of the start of the court process against him concerning alleged abuse of official position and authority, Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski, who’s also a presidential candidate, described on Tuesday the charge as staged. “It aims to harm my dignity. I faced pressure in the previous elections, too” he said. Regarding the process, Dimitrievski stated he had the ...