Tag: parliament
Macedonia 04.08.20 | 12:00

LIVE: MPs arrive at parliament building, undergo body temperature checks upon entering

The new parliamentary composition arrives at the parliament building, where the constitutive session will be held in the Big Dome hall at noon. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission for Infectious Diseases, the constitutive session will go ahead...

Macedonia 04.08.20 | 11:06

Macedonia’s Parliament to hold constitutive session in line with COVID-19 health safety protocols

The constitutive session of the new parliamentary composition is set to be held in the Big Dome hall at noon on Tuesday. Outgoing Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi is to preside over Parliament’s constitutive session, which will be held in accordance with the COVID-19 health safety guidelines. The agenda...

Macedonia 03.08.20 | 10:20

Parliament’s constitutive session to take place on Tuesday

The constitutive session of the new parliamentary composition is set to be held under special Covid-19 protocols in the Big Dome hall at noon on Tuesday. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic and in accordance with the recommendations of the Commission for Infectious Diseases, the constitutive session will...

Macedonia 01.08.20 | 11:31

SDSM denies VMRO allegations that they are trying to bribe members of Parliament again

With the new Parliament set to convene on August 4, SDSM official Oliver Spasovski insisted that talks for forming the next coalition will begin only after that date. The main parties are evenly divided and none has a clear shot at forming a Government, but under the surface, talks are believed to be...

Macedonia 31.07.20 | 10:34

Pendarovski says he will give the mandate to any candidate who assures him he can get to 61 votes

With Parliament set to convene early next week, President Stevo Pendarovski said that he will give the mandate for the creation of the next Government to the candidate who will assure him he can get to 61 votes. Article 90 of the Constitution is crystal clear – the mandate goes to the candidate...

Macedonia 29.07.20 | 10:52

As a coronavirus precautionary measure, the next Parliament will meet in the domed hall

The next Parliament is set to hold its inaugural session on Tuesday at noon. Despite the inconclusive outcome of the vote, the legal deadlines are pressing the legislative body to convene. Parliament services are preparing to hold the session on the newly built domed rooftop hall. Members will have separate...

Macedonia 24.07.20 | 20:53

Vecer: SDSM is trying to bribe members of Parliament to cross over to their side

Vecer reports that the SDSM party is sending emissaries to meet with newly elected members of Parliament from VMRO-DPMNE, the Alliance of Albanians and DUI, who are offering hundreds of thousands of euros, up to half a million EUR, for them to support an SDSM led Government. In the previous Parliament...

Macedonia 24.07.20 | 09:49

What the Constitution says: The mandate is entrusted to the party that will secure a majority in Parliament

According to the Constitution, the Parliament should be constituted no later than 20 days after the elections and the deadline is already running. The President of the state is obliged to entrust the mandate to form a government to a candidate of the party, ie the parties that have a majority in Parliament,...

Macedonia 22.07.20 | 17:26

Pendarovski will consult with the parties before deciding who gets the mandate

President Stevo Pendarovski said that he will meet with the leaders of the political parties before he decides to give the mandate for the creation of the next Government. The two main parties, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM, and virtually tied after the elections, and none has a clear shot at forming the next...

Macedonia 17.07.20 | 13:27

Number of women in Parliament expected to go down

Even as election results remain uncertain, it seems clear that the next Macedonian Parliament will have fewer women. Depending on how recounting and possible legal appeals go, it’s estimated that there will be 79 men in Parliamant and 41 women. The previous Parliament had ratio of 75 to 45.

Macedonia 30.06.20 | 14:51

European Parliament urges for fair elections, says they will be crucial test of democratic maturity

In a statement, the European Parliament said that the coming elections in Macedonia will a crucial test of democratic maturity. The members of the Parliament linked with Macedonia urged for “transparent, credible and objective campaign, free from disinformation and intimidation”. The statement...

World 20.05.20 | 12:02

Macron’s party loses majority in Parliament

The French president faces a difficult situation with 17 members defecting the ruling party and forming a new parliamentary group. Thus, Macron’s party has lost absolute majority in the lower house and will be forced to enter into an alliance if it wants to retain majority, the V4 new agency reported. “Ecology,...

Macedonia 06.05.20 | 14:47

Parliament will not reconvene, Constitutional Court decides for the second time that there are no conditions

There are no conditions for accepting judge Osman Kadriu’s proposal to start an ex officio procedure to evaluate if dissolving Parliament was constitutional and legal, (“Official Gazette of the Republic of North Macedonia” No. 43/2020) so far, the judges of the Constitutional Court unanimously...

Macedonia 28.04.20 | 15:20

Mickoski: The Parliament returned its legitimacy to the people, and only the people can appoint a new one

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that the legitimacy of the former Parliament was spent when it voted to dissolve itself in mid February, and that it is not acceptable to have it recalled, as the ruling SDSM party is trying to do. That Parliament returned its legitimacy back to the citizens....

Macedonia 28.04.20 | 09:57

Xhaferi: Recalling the dissolved Parliament would amount to a coup attempt

Speaker Talat Xhaferi insists tha tthe Parliament can only convene after an election was held. “Anything else would be a coup attempt”, Xhaferi told TV21, when asked about the request by the ruling SDSM party to re-convene the Parliament that was dissolved in mid February. All representatives...

Macedonia 27.04.20 | 22:42

Milososki: The Parliament lost its mandate when it voted to dissolve

VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki said that holding elections in June or July would be a serious health risk. The ruling SDSM party is trying to recall the dissolved Parliament in a move which prompted speculations that SDSM will try hold “corona elections”, before the epidemic has been...

Macedonia 27.04.20 | 21:26

DUI’s Grubi wants the Constitutional Court to decide on whether the Parliament can re-convene

Artan Grubi from the DUI party said that the Constitutional Court should be the one to decide whether the Parliament can be recalled. The ruling SDSM party and some of its allies are proposing that the Parliament, which dissolved in mid February, re-convenes, but DUI and the main opposition VMRO-DPMNE...

Macedonia 27.04.20 | 17:26

On the anniversary of the 2017 incident in the Parliament, Durlovski asks the public to consider “who gained from this controlled chaos”

Opera singer and political dissident Igor Durlovski, who was one of the leaders of the Fourth Ilinden movement, wrote on the third anniversary of the illegitimate power grab in Macedonia and the incident in the Parliament. Durlovski asked a series of questions regarding the events of the day, which he...

Macedonia 24.04.20 | 23:05

Mickoski calls on Pendarovski to convene the party leaders, in light of the illegitimate SDSM attempt to recall the Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called on President Stevo Pendarovski to hold a meeting of the main party leaders to discuss the political crisis that is developing as the ruling SDSM party is trying to recall the already dissolved Parliament. Mickoski said that the attempt is a mockery of the...

Macedonia 23.04.20 | 22:51

Klimovski: Parliament cannot be reconvened because MPs have already returned their mandates

The government, through the Parliament, wants to confirm the unconstitutional decision of President Pendarovski for a state of emergency for the second time and to give legitimacy to the disputed decrees having the force of law, experts say. According to the professor of constitutional law and former...

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