According to Fatime Fetai, Prosecutor at the Higher Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office in Skopje, there should be a general re-election of all second and third-instance judges and prosecutors. As she said at an event on Wednesday, those positions should be held by competent staff with proven integrity and results. Fetai’s proposal is for all candidates for higher positions to be ...

Alternative, BESA, and Democratic Movement have asked why Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi isn’t putting the no-confidence motion against Chief Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski, filed on 14 September, on the agenda. MPs from the three parties suspect that information was being hidden over the 2021 Tetovo hospital fire in order to protect the main culprits. In response, Xhaferi’s Cabinet says that ...

Only persons who are effectively convicted will be able to be amnestied by the President. Those people whose acts are still covered by an investigative procedure or a trial will not have an amnesty possibility. That’s provided for in the new text of the amnesty law. As the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday, the Amnesty Draft-Law has been submitted in ...

Though the issue of whether he will be pardoned as a result of the potential adoption of the Pardon Draft-Law has sparked a lot of reactions, Fejzi Aziri, convicted 15 years in prison in the Monster case (which concerns the 2012 Smilkovci killings), for assisting the perpetrator after the commission of the crime, says in an interview with Alsat that ...

Both opposition and SDSM MPs have claimed they haven’t seen the Pardon Draft-Law, which has been submitted to Parliament in the shortened procedure. Snezana Kaleska-Vanceva, MP from the ruling party, told the Top Tema (Top Topic) show on Telma on Monday that not only had she and her fellow SDSM parliamentarians not seen the text, but also they were yet ...

In an interview with Sitel, PM Dimitar Kovacevski says the elections will be regular, that is, they will be held in 2024. “However, I consider that the preparation of SDSM’s programme is a process that will include, in addition to party committees and municipal organisations, primarily citizens,” he notes. Regarding the photo on social media of Thursday’s meeting where ex-PM ...

In Ohrid, on Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE started its campaign “It matters! Changes depend on you!”. According to the plans, the party’s leadership will meet citizens to discuss problems facing the latter, which would result in solutions that will be part of VMRO- DPMNE’s campaign for the parliamentary elections. As party leader Hristijan Mickoski said, it’s about a new approach several months ...

At its session on Tuesday, the Government considered and adopted the information from the Justice Ministry for finding a solution to the current demands of and situation pointed to by the judicial service, the public prosecutor’s service, and state administration organ employees. The Government decided for a working group to be formed within seven days comprising the Ministries of Finance, ...

Oncology Clinic Director Violeta Klisarova says there has been and will be a lack of medications at the institution because there is not enough money to procure therapy for all patients, whose number is on the rise on a daily basis. According to her, in addition to the limited budget, another problem is that therapy is given to patients not ...

As a result of the allegations by Salka Abdulovska, a woman from Debar, who told Telma on Monday that her 17-year-old son, a boy with autism, had returned from the Psychiatric Hospital in Demir Hisar with wounds on his hands and scratches and bruises on his body from the chains he had been tied with, the Ombudsperson has opened a ...