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Macedonia 10.12.21 | 17:26

Alliance of Albanians blames the SDSM – DUI led Government of wasting another EU opportunity

The Alliance of Albanians accused the SDSM – DUI led Government of missing another opportunity for Macedonia to open its EU accession talks. Bulgaria is expected to block Macedonia again, at the coming European Council on December 14th, as it demands major concessions from Macedonia in the area...
Macedonia 09.12.21 | 22:17

DUI expects that SDSM will honor their agreement to name an ethnic Albanian Prime Minister for a term of 100 days

Zaev’s First Deputy Prime Minister Artan Grubi said that his DUI party expects to have an ethnic Albanian candidate named Prime Minister in the last 100 days of its term with SDSM. The agreement was reached between Zoran Zaev and DUI leader Ali Ahmeti as they made their new coalition deal in mid...
Macedonia 06.12.21 | 15:02

ISPOS poll: Convincing lead of VMRO-DPMNE over SDSM of 7.2%

For the needs of VMRO-DPMNE, the ISPOS Agency from November 12 to 30, 2021 conducted a field survey on the territory of the entire country, on a stratified representative sample of 1,010 respondents. The results show: • Convincing lead of VMRO-DPMNE over SDSM of 7.2%. • The prevailing opinion is...
Macedonia 03.12.21 | 14:13

Jovan Despotovski will also run for SDSM party leader

Jovan Despotovski is the final SDSM party official who entered the race to replace Zoran Zaev. The director of the TIRZ industrial zones company told the press that he submitted his application hours before the deadline ends. I have been a member of the party for 25 years and have been at various positions,...
Macedonia 03.12.21 | 10:11

Maksim Dimitrievski will not run for leader of SDSM

The Mayor of Kumanovo Maksim Dimitrievski said that he will not run for leader of the SDSM party with the withdrawal of Zoran Zaev. Dimitrievski had a major falling out with Zaev and launched an independent bid for Mayor, defeating Zaev’s candidate and depriving SDSM from the city hall in Kumanovo...
Macedonia 02.12.21 | 17:33

Yet another SDSM member to run for party leader

The SDSM party informed that Vlastimir Aleksovski also submitted his candidacy for leader of the party to the Central Election Commission. Vlastimir Aleksovski is a member and activist of SDSM from the municipal organization of the party from Kumanovo. After analyzing the submitted documentation and...
Macedonia 01.12.21 | 12:37

Frosina Remenski announces she will run for SDSM party leader

Former Labour Minister Frosina Remenski announced that she is entering the race for SDSM leader. Remenski was ostracized in the party after numerous corruption allegations for her role in the Racket scandal. She is currently on trial in the second Racket case, although it’s widely assumed that...
Macedonia 29.11.21 | 13:23

Filipce won’t run for SDSM party leader

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce announced that he will not run for SDSM party leader. Filipce was a rising star of the Zaev Government at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, even though he was not a prominent party member. But as the death toll in Macedonia set European records and reports of his...
Macedonia 27.11.21 | 20:24

Kovacevski confirmed he will run for SDSM party leader, expects to get support from Sekerinska and from Crvenkovski’s faction

Deputy Finance Minister Dimitar Kovacevski confirmed that he will run for leader of the SDSM party, after Zoran Zaev, who is on his way out, endorsed the little known former telecom executive. The party is now accepting candidacies, and anyone who has been an SDSM member for more than five years, and...
Macedonia 27.11.21 | 16:29

Kumanovo Mayor Dimitrievski angry as SDSM did not invite him to the meeting to formalize Zaev’s resignation

Kumanovo Mayor Maksim Dimitrievski protested the fact that the SDSM party did not invite him to the meeting of its Central Board yesterday evening. Dimitrievski considers himself as still a member of the party, despite his confrontation with Zoran Zaev and his Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski during...
Macedonia 27.11.21 | 11:09

Zaev’s resignation is finally activated, SDSM will elect a new leader in two weeks

The SDSM party Central Board accepted Zoran Zaev’s resignation as party leader. In a meeting that started yesterday evening and lasted well into the night, Zaev finally activated his announced resignation, which he postponed several times. Party sources briefed the press that all officials at a...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 10:10

SDSM membership does not agree that the new leader should be prime minister, much less that they should be Zaev’s choice

The SDSM Central Board is to hold a session on Friday to discuss the resignation of party leader Zoran Zaev. The session was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but was postponed after the Government declared three days of national mourning due to the fatal bus accident in Bulgaria. If the resignation...
Macedonia 26.11.21 | 09:17

SDSM Central Board to discuss Zaev’s resignation

The SDSM Central Board is to hold a session on Friday to discuss the resignation of party leader Zoran Zaev. The session was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but was postponed after the Government declared three days of national mourning due to the fatal bus accident in Bulgaria. If the resignation...
Macedonia 24.11.21 | 17:01

New developments on Zaev’s resignation expected on Friday

Zoran Zaev is postponing his decision on resigning as Prime Minister and SDSM party leader for Friday. Zaev was supposed to activate the two resignations on Tuesday, but the move was understandably postponed after the devastating bus accident in Bulgaria that killed over 40 Macedonian citizens. Zaev’s...
Macedonia 15.11.21 | 16:08

Attempting to rule without majority in Parliament, SDSM asks for support from VMRO-DPMNE to adopt the 2022 budget

After the strongman tactics used last week to ensure the survival of the Zaev Government, SDSM now asks VMRO-DPMNEto help them adopt the 2022 budget. SDSM doesn’t have majority after the BESA party left its coalition and Zaev is frantically trying to bring another smaller Albanian party – Alternative...
Macedonia 15.11.21 | 14:59

Fokus: SDSM is considering little known Dimitar Kovacevski for new party leader  

The Fokus magazine reports that the SDSM party is considering Deputy Finance Minister Dimitar Kovacevski as its new leader. The name of the little known son of a former Kumanovo Mayor, has been dropped in the past weeks, following the major defeat in the local elections and the announced resignation...
Macedonia 15.11.21 | 12:30

In a rare public comment, Defense Minister Sekerinska says that she considers the Zaev Government still functional

In a rare intervention in domestic politics since she resigned as deputy leader of SDSM, Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska said that she considers the Zaev Government still functional, and that she believes “the public expects us to confirm our majority in Parliament”. Zaev lost a key coalition...
Macedonia 11.11.21 | 19:12

SDSM expects that the Zaev Government will survive and their majority in Parliament will grow

After a long day of drama in the Parliament, during which a member of Parliament went missing and derailed the vote of no confidence, an SDSM official finally addressed the public. Jovan Mitreski, head of the SDSM group in Parliament, insisted that their majority remains stable and taht they are going...
Macedonia 09.11.21 | 23:39

SDSM party delegates “asked” Zaev to postpone his resignation

Zoran Zaev convened party delegates this evening to give him coverage to postpone his announced resignations as Prime Minister and SDSM party leader. The SDSM Central Board good unanimously to ask Zaev to postpone his resignation, said SDSM official Pero Kostadinov. Given how reluctant Zaev was to make...
Macedonia 09.11.21 | 22:54

Zaev told SDSM party officials he has no intention to resign, will try to survive the vote of no confidence

A number of news outlets close to SDSM are reporting that Zoran Zaev told the Central Board of his party that he will not resign. Zaev announced his resignations as SDSM party leader and Prime Minister after badly losing in the local elections, but then began to delay his move – especially the...
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