Tag: DUI
Macedonia 30.07.23 | 16:41

All DUI ministers submit their resignations – they would go into effect if VMRO votes for the constitutional amendments

All Government ministers from the DUI party and the top DUI party officials have submitted tentative resignations from their positions – these will go into effect if VMRO-DPMNE votes in favor of the constitutional amendments drafted under Bulgarian pressure. DUI leader Ali Ahmeti sent a letter...

Macedonia 25.07.23 | 15:43

Political analyst Botsevski: DUI extremely metastasized after 20 years in power

The struggle for ethnic rights is not conducted by selling electricity, by buying exclusive property in the center of Skopje, or by various “borrowed” vehicles. DUI metastasized during the last 20 years in power to such an extent that, at the moment, the most discriminated group of Macedonian...

Macedonia 23.07.23 | 13:07

VMRO-DPMNE: How can a company with no experience in mining guarantee that there will be no contamination?

The Government claimed there would be no concession for new mines in the Strumitsa region. Yet, it almost immediately allowed a company owned by the Destani family, one of DUI’s most prominent sponsors, to buy stocks in Euromax Resources, the owner of an already nullified concession for the Ilovitsa-Shtuka...

Macedonia 22.07.23 | 21:52

Mickoski: DUI needs to spend some time in the opposition

It’s time that, after 20 years, DUI is sent to the opposition, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski in an interview with the Albanian language Alsat-M TV. He announced that a consolidated group of parties and politicians will stand up to DUI in the next elections and will challenge their...

Macedonia 22.07.23 | 11:45

Limani: Grubi though he can just buy votes for DUI

Fatmir Limani, a relative of DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti and fierce critic of the corruption in DUI, accused the party of enriching its top officials. In an interview, he discussed Artan Grubi, Ahmeti’s deputy, whose car was burnt overnight in Skopje in an apparent message over his corrupt dealings. We...

Macedonia 20.07.23 | 11:45

Ismet Guri given 30 days detention

The Skopje Court ordered Ismet Guri, former official in the DUI party who broke with its leadership, to be detained for 30 days. Guri is suspected of a scheme to unlawfully pay tax rebates to companies he was in league with. Along with Guri, his son and a dozen others are being charged. The group extracted...

Macedonia 19.07.23 | 13:51

Former DUI official arrested

Ismet Guri, a former DUI party official who sided with the rebel faction in the party and faced previous persecution, was arrested today along with his son and several businessmen and lawyers. The details of the charges are not made public yet. Guri was on trial in the past, for alleged election interference,...

Macedonia 18.07.23 | 08:30

Three members of Parliament will officially leave DUI

8Three members of Parliament elected on the DUI party ticket will formally leave and sett up a new party, under the former Cair Mayor Izet Mexhiti. This so-called Fire Faction has called for changes in DUI, including the removal of Ali Ahmeti’s main advisor Artan Grubi, but Ahmeti refused to accomodate...

Macedonia 15.07.23 | 16:30

Mickoski on the Ilovitsa mine: Another DUI/SDSM business deal; Minister Shukova’s support an utmost hypocrisy

Merging of the two concession for the Ilovitsa mine is but another inside business deal of the Government, between DUI that are now part of this project, and SDS, as a junior partner that executes the DUI orders, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday. “This is a clear business deal...

Macedonia 15.07.23 | 13:09

Mexhiti: We will form a new political movement, or we will go home

DUI Vice-Chair and one  of the “Fiery Group” fraction leaders, Izet Mexhiti, told the Albanian TV Vision Plus  on Saturday that he and his like-minded party colleagues will either form a new political party, or they will go home. “It won’t be a real political party. It will...

Macedonia 10.07.23 | 12:54

VMRO-DPMNE: The Government didn’t lay even one brick at the Shtip Hospital for six years

For six years SDS and DUI didn’t lay even one brick at the hospital in Shtip, which the previous VMRO-DPMNE left in the final phase of realization, vMRO-DPMNE accused on monday. “For six years the patients from the East of the country are treated in horrible conditions, despite that the current...

Macedonia 09.07.23 | 10:17

Mexhiti acknowledges there are divisions in his DUI faction

Izet Mexhiti, from the splinter faction in DUI, acknowledged that there are differences in his groups, as some want to form a new party while others will try to “reform DUI from the inside”. This comes after DUI moved to divide and isolate the group, by holding elections to remove the party...

News 08.07.23 | 13:55

Milososki: No need for a direct communication with the MPs – what we need are early elections

We are witnessing serious divisions within the ruling parties. DUI factions are fighting each other on a daily basis. The Judicial Council revealed the divisions within SDS, where one faction is pushing their candidates, while the other is insisting on theirs, Antonijo Milososki, VMRO-DPMNE MP, said...

Macedonia 07.07.23 | 13:03

Beside from having nightmares, Bujar Osmani is becoming obsessed: There are no VMRO-DPMNE MPs who would vote for the constitutional amendments

Not only that he has nightmares, but Bujar Osmani is also becoming obsessed with the constitutional amendments, because there are no VMRO-DPMNE MPs who would vote for the amendments now. It is obvious that the recent scandals about the Ali Ahmeti clan’s  businesses caused serious psychological...

Macedonia 06.07.23 | 12:12

Three members of the DUI faction “The Fiery Group” are against coalition with the opposition – they want DUI reformed

Three members of  the DUI faction called “The Fiery Group”, Bllerim Bexheti, Musa Xhaferi, and Nevzat Bejta, are becoming a faction in the faction, because they think that all issues with the current leadership of  the party must be debated and resolved within the Democratic Union for Integration. Talking ...

Macedonia 04.07.23 | 13:40

Drin Ahmeti is not the largest businessman in the Ahmeti Clan – the real money are controlled by the son in law Kushtrim Smajlaj

The Kosovo citizen Kushtrim Smajlaj, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti’s son in law for his daughter Uskana, is probably the most powerful man in the DUI leader’s Kichevo Klan, the investigative TV show Code reveals. Unlike the Ahmeti’s nephews Drin and Besijan, the scarcely known son in law Smajlaj...

Macedonia 02.07.23 | 22:11

Mexhiti: The elections in DUI were a farce

Izet Mexhiti, who leads the so-called “fire faction” within the DUI party, said that the intra-party elections held today were a travesty and in violation with the statute. DUI leader Ali Ahmeti held elections meant to remove officials who sided with Mexhiti and turned against Ahmeti’s...

Macedonia 28.06.23 | 13:36

Kasami of Besa: Merko is a “small fish”, Ali Ahmeti is “ready” for the US black list

In an interview with Euronews Albania, the leader of the Movement Besa, Besim Kasami, an opposition ethnic Albanian party, commenting the events related to Struga mayor Rami Merko’s blacklisting, said that the mayor is a “small fish” – next on the list will be the DUI leader Ali...

Macedonia 26.06.23 | 09:15

Mexhiti of DUI: There were always death threats, shooting, dead, and wounded during DUI party elections

The death threats reported by the Chair Municipality Mayor Visar Ganiu are nothing new in DUI, many elections of local branches’ heads went with shootings and murders, Izet Mexhiti, one of the leaders of the DUI faction called “The Fiery Group”, told TV Alfa on Sunday. He stated the...

Macedonia 26.06.23 | 09:00

PM Kovachevski avoided to answer if he talked with Ahmeti about the Struga Mayor and his business wonderkid nephew

PM Kovachvski avoided to answer on Sunday if he had already talked with his coalition partner Ali Ahmeti about the allegations on Struga Mayor from his party Ramiz Merko’s concealed crimes, as stated in US State Department sanctions disclosure, and about the business wonders of his 25-year old...

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