Commenting on the Government’s negative opinion about the draft amnesty law filed by VMRO-DPMNE, Justice Minister Renata Deskoska stated on Wednesday that the amnesty covered in the document had been too wide. “So, the stand was that a potential amnesty and other issues of that type need to be resolved within the frameworks of the reconciliation body in Parliament,” the ...

Commenting on the Government’s negative opinion about its draft amnesty law, VMRO-DPMNE said that was expected. “We expected such developments because the law itself, once we submitted it in accordance with the Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, wasn’t put on the first session, that is, it was rejected by the majority. So, all of this leads to a conclusion that this ...

On his official Facebook profile, on Tuesday, former PM Nikola Gruevski said he’d been given granted political asylum in Hungary due to political persecution in Macedonia from the SDSM-led government. According to Gruevski, he has received information that preparations are underway to kill him in prison. The former VMRO-DPMNE leader added he continued the struggle for the “Macedonian cause”. The ...

By mid-December, the Reconciliation Commission will need to propose a draft law concerning an amnesty in relation to the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament. The first draft version will be prepared at a meeting it will held by the end of the week. The idea, according to the independent parliamentary group of VMRO-DPMNE, upon whose demand the law is ...

MPs from VMRO-DPMNE and its coalition submitted on Monday Information about the Enormous Pollution of Ambient Air. Also, they will request for a public debate at the Transport, Communications and Environment Committee on the matter, where civil society organisations, experts, environmental associations and everyone else that can contribute so that the situation is prevented from deteriorating will be invited. “We ...

According to PM Zoran Zaev, there are no dilemmas that former PM Nikola is in Budapest. “We expect him to be extradited so that he serves jail time here,” he said on Friday, publicly asking whether the former VMRO-DPMNE leader had voluntarily left Macedonia or had been kidnapped. The PM stated that he expected answers from both Gruevski and Hungary. ...

The trial over the 27 April 2017 attacks in Parliament continued on Tuesday. In the messages found during the expertise of former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski, Viber communication has been found in which the then-leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, on 26 April 2017, forwarded a message to Veljanoski that he had received from the then-Director of the Public Security Bureau, ...

In an interview with the Kurir portal, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski levels fierce accusations against the SDSM-led government. “Macedonia is living its darkest moments,” he says. According to Mickoski, the economy is faced with a huge number of problems because of several reasons, including failure to open factories. “We’re only seeing a confrontation between oligarchs for finding room under the ...

Former PM Nikola Gruevski is still not in prison. On Friday, last working day of the week, the Criminal Court had an unsuccessful attempt to submit the decision on the two-year prison sentence in the Tank case to him. Court submitters didn’t found Gruevski in his home. His wife, Borkica, told him he had gone out. That means that the ...

On Friday, Nikola Gruevski’s MP mandate wasn’t taken away because there were just 58 votes, that is, 22 fewer than what was needed. The eight MPs from the opposition who had at the end of October supported the constitutional changes procedure weren’t present during the vote. 29 VMRO-DPMNE MPs voted against, but nobody wanted to discuss the matter. “We don’t ...