Saturday, 4 July 2020
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 23:09

From the hotbed of the Colored Revolution, Mickoski asks what happened with Zaev’s promises to fight corruption?

Speaking in Skopje’s downtown Centar district, which was the ground zero for the 2015 SDSM led Colored Revolution, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski reminded the gathered citizens how Zoran Zaev betrayed the promises he made about ensuring the rule of law and a fight against corruption. When...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 22:34

Zaev repeats his claim that the Macedonian language is becoming an official EU language

In an interview, SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev repeated his claim that the publication of a draft negotiating framework by the European Commission ensures that the Macedonian language is an official language of the European Union. The framework, which is subject to amendments from EU member states, declares...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 22:25

Siljanovska shows off her dancing skills

Professor Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, who leads the VMRO-DPMNE list in the 1st electoral district, took her campaign the TikTok route by posting a video of her dancing to Jailhouse Rock, while wearing the mandatory face mask. The young at heart candidate has also posted videos doing her yoga...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 22:11

Streets flooded in Bitola after a torrential rain

A torrential summer rain caused flooding in parts of Bitola. Citizens are sharing pictures of cars half submerged in murky water and farmers are also reporting damages. Surprisingly, the rain affected even the higher areas of the city. It was a short but intense burst of rain, typical for the summer...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 22:06

Nikoloski: We are ruled by bandits who destroy businesses and order cars to be set on fire

In Macedonia we have a ruling family that orders which businesses succeed and which fail, and that orders people’s cars to be set on fire, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski in Prilep, after the revelations in today’s leaked audio tape. Leaked tape shows henchmen of the...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 21:46

Car torchings became common under the Zaev regime

The audio leak today, indicating involvement of the Zaev family in the burning of vehicles of opposition activists and political opponents turned the attention to the series of car torchings in the past several years that Zaev was in office. An early incident occurred in April 2017, when two cars were...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 21:33

Mickoski asks voters to choose pride, economic renewal

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski asked the voters in Skopje’s Ilinden and Petrovec suburbs to choose whether they want to turn left and continue the humiliations and lack of justice, of to vote right and restore their pride. Do you want to vote for criminals who were given pardons, for people...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 21:14

After asking VMRO for a minority Government, Zaev now says he’s open to coalition with DUI and/or AA

In an interview with the MIA state ran news agency, SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev said that he is open to a post-election coalition with DUI, but is also in talks with the Alliance of Albanians. Zaev said that he believes that SDSM and his Albanian coalition partner BESA will win the elections with enough...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 19:14

Vice Zaev denies ordering the torching of an activist’s car, says he and his family are “honest Macedonians”

Vice Zaev, the brother of SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev, dismissed the allegations that he ordered the burning of a car of an opposition activist, contained in an audio leak that was shared today. In the leak, a henchman of the Zaev family from Bitola says that he was given the green light to burn the...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 18:51

Six deaths, 147 newly diagnosed corona patients in Macedonia

The daily coronavirus report is again grim, with six deaths reported, and 147 newly diagnosed cases over the past 24 hours. Three of the deceased patients are from Skopje, and one each were from Kumanovo, Stip and Berovo. The patient from Stip was just 36. The other patients ranged from 59 to 78. This...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 18:40

Leak involving Vice Zaev in the torching of an activist’s car raises question if he was also involved in a bomb attack against the opposition

The revelation of a shocking conversation, in which a henchman of the Zaev family says that the Zaevs approved the torching of a car owned by an outspoken opposition activist in Bitola, raised the question whether Zaev’s family was involved in the bomb attack against the bakery of VMRO-DPMNE Vice...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 15:25

Zaev’s chief enablers in the judiciary upset that they were portrayed as such during the election campaign

Judge Dobrila Kacarska and prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, two of the main enablers of Zoran Zaev in the judiciary, objected to being included in a pre-election video by VMRO-DPMNE. The video mocks Zaev’s often repeated promise to upheld the rule of law, which even his die-hard supporters acknowledged...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 14:16

Hospitals in Macedonia are on the brink as the second corona wave shows no sign of receding

Hospitals in Macedonia remain overcrowded with Covid-19 patients, to the point of being forced to cut down on providing other essential medical services. The “8th of September” hospital in Skopje, which handles the most serious coronavirus cases, has 130 patients – nine of them on...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 13:54

Mickoski: We’ll conduct vetting of politicians who can’t explain the origin of their property

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that the party will institute vetting of politicians, and especially of their property. It can start with me and my family, Mickoski said. The process would investigate if the politicians can explain the origin of their personal property and the property of...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 13:31

Leaked tape shows henchmen of the Zaev family ordering that the car of an opposition activist is set on fire to cover up corruption in REK Bitola

A shocking new audio leak reveals a conversation between people close to Zoran Zaev’s brother Vice Zaev. In the conversation, which has all the hallmarks of a mafia group plotting its next moves, they plan to set fire to a car owned by a VMRO-DPMNE activist in Bitola who was outspoken about their...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 10:31

VMRO-DPMNE pledges to further the decentralization of Government by empowering municipalities

The conservative VMRO-DPMNE party pledged to finalize the process of decentralization, by increasing the share of revenue received by municipal governments, and by further transfering publicly owned property to them. We will turn all tax revenue from agriculture and all receipts from re-zoning directly...
Macedonia 04.07.20 | 10:24

Police officers cite 478 citizens for not wearing masks

The Interior Ministry informed the public that it cited 478 citizens over the past 24 hours for not wearing face masks in confined public spaces. Citizens are required to wear masks in places such as banks, post offices and supermarkets, as well as in open but crowded spaces.
News Macedonia 04.07.20 | 10:15

Mickoski: I realize there is a new reality, but I won’t accept the adjective “North”

Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said that VMRO-DPMNE can’t accept what is contained in the treaties Zoran Zaev signed with Greece and Bulgaria. In a TV interview Mickoski said that he realizes there is a new reality but that he can’t accept the adjective “North”. Our position...

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