In an interview with Sitel, President Stevo Pendarovski says that he expects support from all ethnic communities for a second term. As he points out, one cannot become the President if they don’t get broad citizen support. Regarding VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s comments that VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, will have a lead of over 100,000 votes in the first ...

SDSM’s coalition parties have endorsed Stevo Pendarovski for a second presidential term. “At today’s working meeting of the most senior representatives of the parties from the SDSM-led coalition, support for Pendarovski was clearly expressed, with the joint assent being that he is a winning candidate with a clear European vision for the future of this country. The joint consent to ...

At the session of SDSM’s Congress on Sunday, Stevo Pendarovski was confirmed as the ruling party’s candidate for a second presidential term. 706 delegates voted in favour. SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said Pendarovski had a clear vision about the country’s prosperity and its EU future. Pendarovski said the country needed a President with a clear European vision. He described VMRO-DPMNE’s ...

Citizens that will not have a valid ID or a new passport will not be able to vote in the elections. Caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski has informed about the issue. He was told by the Interior Ministry’s services that it was about 100,000 adults without an ID who have a passport containing the previous constitutional name. On Friday, Ombudsperson ...

VMRO-DPMNE believes Stevo Pendarovski doesn’t have the credibility to be the President. On Thursday, Mile Lefkov, MP from the opposition party, asked whether Pendarovski had been forced to enter the race because nobody else from SDSM, not even ex-Interior Minister Spasovski, wanted to lose. “On 6 December, Pendarovski personally said he wasn’t planning to run for a second term. Media ...

Parliament voted through on Thursday the changes to six laws filed by SDSM parliamentarians aiming to limit the salaries of officials. The previous day, the need to adopt the changes had been adopted in the shortened procedure. According to the changes, salaries of officials will not rise as a result of the average salary increase. The laws in question are: ...

In an interview with Sitel on Wednesday, SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said his party and its coalition would win more MP seats than VMRO-DPMNE in the parliamentary elections. As he added, he will once again be North Macedonia’s PM. “We will form the pro-EU government with which we will have joined the EU by 2030,” Kovacevski emphasised. In the interview, ...

At the session of Parliament on Wednesday, the draft-changes filed by VMRO-DPMNE aiming to extend the validity of passports containing the previous constitutional name were not passed. 54 MPs voted against, while 46 were in favour. SDSM had announced previously too it would not support the changes because that would be in contradiction with the Constitution, according to which international ...

In an interview with Sitel on Tuesday, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski again said Gordana Siljanovska Davkova would have a resounding victory in the presidential elections. “According to all those polls and analysis we have, her lead over Stevo Pendarovski will be over 100,000 votes, at least 100,000 votes in the first round. I believe that will send a serious message ...

DUI has toughened up its rhetoric regarding the issue of whether the President should be elected in Parliament, that is, the party’s setting the election of President in the legislative house by a two-thirds and Badinter majority as a condition for coalitions after the parliamentary elections. Ali Ahmeti’s party is now saying that the progressive idea will also save 20 ...