Tag: DUI
Macedonia 20.08.23 | 15:30

Misajlovski: DUI and SDS are delaying the vote on the amendments to buy a few more months in power

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski called on the DUI – SDS Government accept the push for early general elections – after their attempt to pass the so-called Bulgarian amendments through Parliament failed on Friday. DUI and SDSM had only 70 votes, of the 80 they needed. Now DUI...

Macedonia 17.08.23 | 21:14

“Joveski should be removed for covering up the Deutsche Telekom scandal”

Former Finance Minister Xhevdet Hajredini joined the calls for removal of Public Prosecutor Ljubomir Joveski. Joveski is facing calls to resign after an investigative report showed that his prosecutors would not expand the investigation in the disastrous 2021 Tetovo hospital fire that killed 14. Only...

Macedonia 17.08.23 | 11:01

VMRO-DPMNE: There will be no constitutional amendments under these conditions and a Bulgarian diktat

The VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group is with a clear and persistent position: there will be no constitutional amendments under these conditions and a Bulgarian diktat. The VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group stated this position at the Commission for Constitutional Amendments, and it will reiterate...

Macedonia 15.08.23 | 19:23

DUI appoints Asef Abduramani as new head of the public healthcare fund

The Government and the DUI party named Asef Abduramani as acting head of the powerful FZOM public healthcare fund, after Faton Ahmeti resigned earlier today. Ahmeti said that he is resigning to focus on fulfilling the visions of his party leader Ali Ahmeti. The announcement comes as DUI is hit by renewed...

Economy 14.08.23 | 12:10

VMRO-DPMNE: The people are getting poorer every day, real salaries have decreased by 5.2%

The people’s standard of living is drastically diminishing, and the real value of the salaries has fallen by 5.2%, VMRO-DPMNE informs on Monday. “The real value of the series, the pensions, and other people’s incomes has decreased. Macedonia faced one of the largest inflation shocks...

Macedonia 10.08.23 | 11:25

There will be no constitutional amendments, consensus possible only on early elections

The criminals from DUI and SDS are asking for a consensus to stay a few more days in power, to steal and get even richer. VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition will not accept constitutional amendments in these circumstances, and DUI and Kovachevski understand that. The only acceptable consensus is the one on...

Macedonia 08.08.23 | 14:05

DUI and SDSM are preparing a Manifest for inclusion of Bulgars in the Constitution

SDSM and DUI are preparing a joint Manifest by which they will show their support for negotiating for a full EU membership, and call upon all political parties to unite behind the Manifest. The Manifest stipulates all advantages of EU membership and promises respect for all undertaken obligations, especially...

Macedonia 07.08.23 | 18:23

Taravari may consider leaving the coalition if the constitutional amendments fail

Arben Taravari’s party, the Alliance of Albanians, will consider leaving the Government if there is no agreement on amending the Constitution in line with the Bulgarian demands. Taravari was a fierce critic of the Government – primarily the DUI party – but after he bought a house from...

Macedonia 06.08.23 | 21:44

Bejta returns to DUI, will not support the creation of a new Albanian party

Former Mayor of Gostivar Nevzat Bejta announced that he is returning to the DUI party, even after he supported the rival faction within DUI that is led by Izet Mexhiti. Mexhiti is on the verge of forming a new party, and already announced its name – the Democratic Movement – but Bejta has...

Macedonia 05.08.23 | 11:01

Stoilkovski: Kovacevski and SDS serve DUI’s interests

The offer of conditional resignations from DUI ministers is a well rehearsed marketing trick, says VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski, as the DUI attempt failed to get VMRO members of Parliament to support the constitutional amendments that Bulgaria wants from Macedonia. This happened as a dark cloud...

Macedonia 05.08.23 | 09:20

Stoilkovski: DUI ministers’ conditional resignations are a marketing trick

In an interview with Alfa TV, the VMRO-DPMNE spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski said that DUI ministers’ conditional resignations are a mere marketing trick and an attempt to defocus the public from DUI and SDS crimes and corruption. He said that in the meantime the crime and corruption within the Government...

Macedonia 04.08.23 | 17:42

Will the DUI’s Government eventually pay for the Slupchane inhabitants’ electricity bills?

In the name of democracy and equality, DUI’s Government and its minister Bekteshi must make the details of the deal on electricity bills concluded in Slupchane public. Did the Government get involved in private debtor-creditor relations? Did it guarantee that the private electricity distributor...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 13:08

Mickoski: By the constitutional amendments, the ruling majority silently introduces a bicameral parliament

DUI and SDSM are silently pushing bicameral parliament by including in the proposal for constitutional amendments an idea for an Interethnic Relations Committee of 43 members that will have the same competencies as a senate in the bicameral parliament, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mockoski claims. “Why...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 12:48

Grubi is “magnanimously” giving up on PM office – something Ali Ahmeti and Zoran Zaev agreed on privately

An ethnic Albanian as a PM found its place in the auction of DUI offers to the opposition to vote for the constitutional amendments. Many in Macedonia already forgot about that, but Vice-PM Grubi reminded them. “For the future of our country, we are prepared to give up on all political agreements...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 12:17

Conditional resignations do not exist, Kovachevski is obliged to send them to the Parliament immediately

The DUI ministers’ resignations will be formally submitted to the Prime Minister at a Government session, signed y each of the DUI’s five ministers, the MoFA and DUI Vice-Chairman Bujar Osmani announced on Monday. The resignations, as Osmai explained, will be activated automatically immediately...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 12:02

Mickoski: The DUI resignations should not be taken seriously

The DUI’s ministers’ resignations should not be taken seriously. Their move has no substance since our legal system doesn’t recognize conditional resignations, the leader of VMRO=DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski told Alfa TV on Monday. Mickoski pointed out that PM Kovachevski was offered two...

Macedonia 01.08.23 | 08:17

MIckoski: DUI’s ministers’ resignations is not a political move, but cheap maneuver to distract the public from other scandals

The ruling parties’ plan is to hold to power for couple more months, to steal what is left to steal. There is no other plan. Everything we see on a daily basis is done only to survive politically as long as possible, that is, until the regular term for parliamentary elections next year, the leader...

Macedonia 31.07.23 | 19:27

Speaker Xhaferi: If everyone else leaves, why would I insist on staying?

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi has told MIA he would follow the decision of the DUI-nominated ministers and withdraw from the post if VMRO-DPMNE voted for the constitutional amendments. “Why would I insist on staying if everyone else leaves,” says Speaker Xhaferi. On the parliamentary elections,...

Macedonia 31.07.23 | 12:42

DUI will waive the right on provisional ethnic Albanian PM, only if the opposition votes for the constitutional amendments

For the future of our country, we are prepared to waive our MP mandates, the provisional government, and the ethnic Albanian PM. We will waive the entire political agreement with the coalition provided that the opposition votes for the constitutional amendments. This is what Vice-PM Artna Grubi told...

Macedonia 31.07.23 | 08:52

SDSM welcomes the stunt by their partner DUI

Following the political stunt from the DUI party, whose ministers submitted their resignations but conditioned them on VMRO-DPMNE accepting the Bulgarian demands and the proposed constitutional amendments, DUI’s partner SDSM welcoemd this move (which was already rejected by VMRO-DPMNE). According...

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