Tag: parliament
Macedonia 14.04.21 | 17:19

Xhaferi calls for a meeting to resume legislative work in the Parliament

Speaker Talat Xhaferi announced a meeting of the heads of party groups in Parliament, to discuss next steps after the work of the legislative body was unblocked by the party leaders. A number of laws are on the agenda and were stalled for months as the ruling “majority” was unable to gather...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 21:25

Parliament finally approves bill to postpone the census for September

After a delay of one day, the Macedonian Parliament voted today to postpone the census from April to September, and also to postpone the municipal elections from the first to the second half of October. The proposals were accepted with 95 votes in favor and 12 against. The Zaev regime was determined...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 16:41

Parliament session to postpone the census delayed because of parking issues

Shortly after the Parliament began today’s session, it was postponed for later in the afternoon. The main item on the agenda is to postpone the census that was planned to begin in April, and to hold it in September, when the coronavirus crisis will hopefully subside. Albanian parties strongly object...
Macedonia 01.04.21 | 16:44

US Ambassador Byrnes met with Albanian opposition leaders to get them to agree to postpone the census

US Ambassador to Macedonia Kate Byrnes intervened today to try and get the two Albanian opposition parties not to block the session of Parliament, which is meant to postpone the census. The Zaev regime initially agreed to pressure from its Albanian coalition partners to hold a “corona census”...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 17:03

Government succumbs to VMRO-DPMNE’s pressure regarding the proposed stimulus bill

The government and the opposition found a common ground regarding the blocked 36th session. After the coordination of the Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi with the parliamentary parties, the session will resume only on the proposed stimulus bill. After setting the agenda, the coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE,...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 16:00

Xhaferi’s attempt to hijack the Parliament fails, only the economic stimulus bill will be on the agenda

After a tense day in the Parliament, the ruling coalition and VMRO-DPMNE reached agreement that work will resume only on the proposed stimulus bill and several other urgently needed items for which VMRO offered to provide the quorum. The coalition and Speaker Talat Xhaferi tried to use the fact that...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 13:20

Chaos in the Parliament – Xhaferi stopped the question time session to try to adopt bills from the agenda of the ruling coalition

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi violated the rules of the house and stopped the session meant to have members of the Government answers questions from the representatives. Instead, Xhaferi insisted that the Parliament debates the proposed stimulus package and other items of the agenda of the SDSM –...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 12:00

VMRO-DPMNE representatives in the Parliament offer their support for the blocked stimulus bill

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament gathered today and invited the ruling SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition to convene a session of the legislative body and to have the proposed economic stimulus packaged voted in. The offer comes as Prime Minister Zoran Zaev raised the idea of having President Stevo...
Macedonia 24.03.21 | 16:25

Xhaferi refuses Mickoski’s offer that the opposition provides quorum in the Parliament

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi refused the offer from VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski that the opposition provides the quorum necessary to adopt the most critically needed pieces of legislation, such as the proposed stimulus package.The ruling SDSM – DUI – BESA majority doesn’t...
Macedonia 23.03.21 | 12:30

Janusev: SDSM does not have majority in the Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE official Igor Janusev said that it is now clear that the ruling SDSM led coalition does not have majority in Parliament. SDSM has been unable to advance almost any legislation, since out of its 62 members, at any given time a few are either sick or abroad, and it takes 61 votes to begin a...
Macedonia 22.03.21 | 14:54

The ruling “majority” refuses offer of help from the opposition and delays the adoption of the stimulus package

The opposition offered to the ruling majority today that the Parliament holds a session and discuss a number of urgently needed laws, including the fifth coronavirus linked stimulus package. But Speaker Talat Xhaferi refused the offer from VMRO-DPMNE. The SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition has only...
News 15.03.21 | 20:27

Slaveski. The inability of the ruling majority to adopt its proposed stimulus is not the fault of the opposition

VMRO-DPMNE official and former Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski said that the blame why the latest proposed stimulus package has not been adopted in Parliament rests with the ruling majority. The SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition has only 62 out of 120 seats in the Parliament and frequent travels...
Macedonia 15.03.21 | 15:42

How much longer will Zaev hold the state hostage before acknowledging that the Parliament can’t secure a quorum?

While SDSM is playing a state, the Parliament is blocked due to the lack of a quorum of the ruling majority. Due to the incompetence of SDSM, the money from the citizens cannot end up in the Macedonian economy. Due to intra-party clashes In DUI and SDSM and problems in the coalition, the citizens suffer....
Macedonia 11.03.21 | 10:29

Zaev’s majority will make another attempt to convene a session of Parliament

In the Parliament, the ruling majority will make another attempt today to reach the quorum of 61 votes needed to hold a session – after months of serious difficulties during which little of the legislative agenda got done. Three members of Parliament from the majority are sick with Covid-19, meaning...
Macedonia 09.03.21 | 14:56

Covid strikes the ruling majority, makes Parliament gridlocked again

The Parliament could not begin work today as three representatives from the ruling SDSM – DUI – BESA majority are sick with the coronavirus. Zoran Zaev was able to gather all his 62 representatives last week to vote confidence into his Government, but all other items are off the agenda, as...
Macedonia 04.03.21 | 17:22

One day after confirming Zaev’s cabinet, the ruling majority was again unable to find quorum to hold a Parliament session

One day after voting to keep the Zaev Government in place with a very narrow majority of 120 votes, the ruling coalition was again unable to gather the necessary quorum of 61 votes to hold a session of Parliament. Speaker Talat Xhaferi asked the parties in teh coalition to provide the votes, but his...
Macedonia 03.03.21 | 20:55

Petrusevski: Today’s confidence vote in the government was mere theater to the detriment of the people

What happened today in the Parliament is a classic theater by Zaev to the detriment of the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, VMRO-DPMNE MP Brane Petrusevski said Wednesday on the “Samo Vistina” show talking about the confidence vote in the government. It is legitimate for every opposition...
Macedonia 02.03.21 | 10:09

Parliament to start working again in a bid to take a loan of 70 million euros for Silegov’s tram

After a break of one month, the Parliament resumes its work today. Extensions of 21st, 22nd, 25th and 26th plenary sessions will be convened. One of them will focus on taking a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for fast bus transport, known to the citizens as the trackless...
Macedonia 01.03.21 | 13:55

The government without opposition can’t gather 61 MPs to start a session, let alone pass a law

The coordinators of the parliamentary groups had a meeting in the Parliament today. The main topic was the blocked Parliament, which is not able not hold a session. The reason for this is the ruling majority, which faces many divisions and regroups. First, the LDP MPs announced that they would act independently,...
Macedonia 23.02.21 | 15:48

Mickoski: This Government no longer has the support of the citizens, all parties need to join together and vote it out

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called on all parties in the Parliament to support his initiative for the creation of a new, technical Government, in light of the persistent failings of the Zaev regime. The latest blow – the escape of former security chief Saso Mijalkov as he was about...
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