Monday, 19 October 2020
Macedonia 19.10.20 | 22:53

Lidija Dimova is ripe for criminal liability for abuses in the National Agency

Answering citizens’ questions on Facebook LiveChat live on The President of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, said that Lidija Dimova should take criminal responsibility before the laws over the abuses in the National Agency. I would say that Lidija Dimova is not ripe for resignation, but she is...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 22:26

Mickoski: Commission for Infectious Diseases should resign if it has a little morality

At Monday’s Facebook Q&A session, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE said if the members of the Commission for Infectious Diseases had virtue and morality, they would resign, but as he said, they continue to count the miserable money they take on the backs of the citizens’ health and serve the...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 21:55

Mickoski: VMRO-DPMNE does not intend to support online sessions of Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE will not support online sessions of Parliament. This is against the Constitution and VMRO-DPMNE will not support a violation of the Constitution. In case we have a Government, in case we have a government majority, they are obliged to provide a quorum for work from the total number of MPs....

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 21:40

Zaev is running away from leaders’ meeting because he will have to face all harmful policies and all the shame

Zoran Zaev is running away from a leaders’ meeting because he will have to face all these harmful policies that are his everyday life, said the president of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, answering questions from citizens on Facebook LiveChat. Mickoski stressed that Zaev would never want to negotiate...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 20:47

VMRO-DPMNE to stage protests in seven cities on Tuesday against crime, corruption, injustice and persecution

VMRO-DPMNE will stage protests in several cities across the country on Tuesday, against crime, corruption, injustice and persecution. The car protests will take place in Skopje, Veles, Ohrid, Kumanovo, Prilep, Stip and Bitola starting at 18:30 h. The Skopje protest will start from sports hall “Jane...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 20:30

Follow live: Mickoski answers citizens’ questions on Facebook

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s Q&A session on Facebook is ongoing and you can follow it live on the video below:

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 20:04

Government fails to deal with crime in the country

The leader of VMRO DPMNE Hristijan Mickoski together with the party’s Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski met Monday with the Head of the OSCE Mission to Macedonia, Clemens Koja. At the meeting I informed about the situation in the country, especially the worrying economic indicators such as crossing...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 19:17

Krusevo only city with no active Covid-19 cases, half of the active cases are in Skopje

Krusevo is currently the only city in Macedonia with no active coronavirus cases. Since the onset of the pandemic, 20 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Krusevo. The number of active cases in the country at the moment is 5,550. Most of the active cases are registered in Skopje –...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 18:35

Deputy PM in charge of fight against corruption submitted proposal to Zaev for Dimova’s dismissal

The Deputy Prime Minister in charge of fight against corruption, Ljupco Nikolovski, told Monday Kanal 5 that he had submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev requesting political responsibility for the director of the National Agency, Lidija Dimova, after the scandal for inappropriate spending...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 18:07

The government is late with the measures, latest ones are waiting for more than 10 days

The numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Macedonia are growing daily. With yesterday’s new 428 cases, the number of patients reached 23,628, which is almost twelve times higher than what the Minister of Health Venko Filipce predicted at the beginning of the pandemic, of which 5,555 are active...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 17:23

Mickoski meets Woutsas: Government’s poor healthcare management results in negative consequences

VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, together with the member of the party’s EC, Stefan Andonovski, met Monday with the Ambassador of Austria to Macedonia, Georg Woutsas. The meeting focused on the coronavirus pandemic, which is a challenge for the whole world, but is a particular problem for the Republic...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 16:57

Gruevski: Today’s investigation is defocusing the public from government’s crime, racketeering and trading with national interests

The government continues with the political persecution and the witch hunt against me and other people in order to extort any statements against me, reacts the former Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski over the the latest charges against him. State prosecutors reportedly begin another case against...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 16:27

12 people died, including a 41-year-old patient, 161 new Covid-19 cases registered in the country

Out of 771 COVID-19 tests carried out in the past 24 hours, 161 new cases were registered in Skopje-90, Kumanovo-11, Stip-2, Prilep-6, Tetovo-5, Veles-4, Kavadarci-2, Gostivar-15, Strumica-8, Kriva Palanka-1, Radovis-1, Kocani-3 , Probistip-2, Berovo-6, Valandovo-1, Delcevo-2, Kicevo-2. The Public Health...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 15:58

Two politicians anger the public after travelling abroad to hold elaborate, masks optional weddings

Two politicians from the ruling coalition brazenly violated coronavirus restrictions to stage elaborate weddings. One of them is the Mayor of Centar Sasa Bogdanovic. He used the recent reopening of the border with Kosovo to marry his fiance in the Gracanica monastery, in a massive wedding that, as photographs...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 15:49

Much of Skopje left without water

Much of Skopje is without water today after a major defect occurred in a supply pipe. The defect happened near the Olympic pool in downtown Skopje, and is affecting a broad swathe of the downtown, as well as villages such as Sopiste, Rakotinci, Dobri Dol, Pintija, Dracevo and Studenicani. The city water...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 15:46

State prosecutors reportedly begin another case against Nikola Gruevski

State prosecutors revealed more details about the charges announced this morning in an alleged money laundering case. The target is again former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who already faces a dozen politically motivated cases initiated by the Zaev regime. In this instance, state prosecutors have...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 14:45

New corona restrictions are the final step before reintroducing the curfew, Government warns

Even as the Parliament prepares to debate the strict new mask and home gathering mandates, Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce proposed other restrictions that can be ordered at the Government level. These include closing all shops at 23h, limiting public transportation to 50 percent of its capacity and...

Macedonia Economy 19.10.20 | 14:41

Eurostandard owner says that his bank was destroyed in order to divide the money to companies linked to the SDSM party

Trifun Kostovski, the owner of the now bankrupt Eurostandard Bank, openly accused the ruling SDSM party of destroying his bank. Eurostandard was ordered to cease operations and placed under forced management by the NBRM Central Bank after years of mismanagement, for which Kostovksi now says that it was...

Macedonia Economy 19.10.20 | 12:53

Mickoski: Parliament refused VMRO proposal to suspend rent payments for people fired due to the coronavirus

The ruling majority in Parliament rejected a number of proposal by VMRO-DPMNE, submitted to the budget, including one that would have suspended loan payments until the end of the year for citizens who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus crisis. Mickoski said that this shows a complete lack of...

Macedonia 19.10.20 | 12:47

Over 300 children had to isolate since kindergartens opened in late September

Since kindergartens opened in late September, a total of 18 children and 55 teachers tested positive to the coronavirus. Each outbreak leads to massive isolations, so at the moment, a little over 300 children and 50 teachers are isolating because somebody in their kindergartens tested positive. “There...

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