On Tuesday, at the constitutive session of the new composition of Parliament, with 76 votes in favour and six against, VLEN’s Afrim Gashi was elected Speaker of the legislative house. He had been nominated with 75 signatures from VMRO-DPMNE, ZNAM, and VLEN MPs. Gashi stated that he would work in the interest of everybody and enable all MPs to be ...

VMRO-DPMNE reported on Monday that their negotiations with VLEN for formation of the new government are in the final phase, and that the ministerial positions have already been distributed among the parties. According to sources from within VMRO-DPMNE, the party will take over the Ministries of Interior, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Defence, Transport and Communications, Education, Culture, Agriculture, Local Self-Government, Political ...

The Parliament is making the final preparations for the constitutive session of the new parliamentary assembly which is scheduled to take place today. 118 out of 120 MPs are expected to assume their seats at the parliament, since there are still ongoing procedures at the State Electoral Commission (SEC) for the confirmation of two mandates after a revote took place ...

VMRO-DPMNE officially started on Sunday negotiations with ZNAM for their eventual participation in the new government. VMRO-DPMNE vice-presidents Vlado Misajlovski and Timco Mucunski had a meeting on Sunday with ZNAM vice-presidents Vesna Bendevska and Pavle Arsovski. From ZNAM they briefly reported that the two parties are very close to a deal for ZNAM to eventually join the new ruling majority, ...

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said that he will mainly focus on efforts for improving the life of the citizens in the formation of the new government. “The massive support we received by the citizens at the election is now a great responsibility for us, to show them how things really are, but also how we intend and plan to make ...

A massive fight between several people took place at about 23:40 in the Nikola Karev Boulevard known as the Plastics street. As several media inform, the fight was followed by gunfire leaving at least three people injured T.A, O.B. and A.I.. The injured were immediately transported to the St. Naum Ohridski surgical centre and the emergency centre at the Mother ...

SDSM leader and former PM Dimitar Kovacevski announced on Wednesday during a meeting of the executive board of SDSM that he is officially resigning form the top position in the party. “SDSM faced a defeat at the latest elections, and received a heavy blow, not only from the citizens, but also from its followers and from some current and former ...

The revote for the parliamentary election that took place on Wednesday at seven polling stations, resulted with DUI losing one MP seat in favour of VLEN, which means that now DUI has won 18 seats in the Parliament, while VLEN has won 14. The decisive votes were cast at the polling station number 2101 at the village of Larce in ...

Ljupco Palevski, the principal suspect in last year’s double murder of Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, was on Tuesday issued a 30-day detention measure by a judge in the previous procedure. As the Criminal Court explained, the decision has been made because there are circumstances that he may escape, obstruct the criminal procedure by impacting witnesses, as well as circumstances ...

Supreme Court Judge Nake Georgiev, who, according to the Prosecutor’s Office was caught in flagranti, with 10,000 euros on him, was on Tuesday issued a 30-day detention measure by the Criminal Court because the Office believes he may influence the procedure and repeat the crime. In front of a judge in the previous procedure, he remained silent, that is, he ...