Tag: constitutional amendments
Macedonia 13.09.23 | 12:20

What if we add the Bulgars to the Constitution: There will be a national TV program in Bulgarian language and San Stefano Day will be a holiday

  The diplomats are increasing the pressure for the constitutional amendments. Some, such as the German Roth, go as far as to ay that the amendments will hurt, but they have to be implemented. It is easy to say, but let’s see what the introduction of the Bulgars to the Macedonian Constitution...
Macedonia 24.08.23 | 11:37

Escobar to meet Pendarovski, Kovachevski, and Mickoski

The United States Deputy Assistant Secretary, Gabriel Escobar, is set to pay a two-day visit to North Macedonia starting Thursday. Escobar will meet with President Stevo Pendarovski on Thursday and is expected to meet with Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski, and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski. Escobar’s...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 15:15

MP Siljanovska Davkova: We cannot turn the Preamble into a phonebook

Where do we source our legitimacy to amend the Constitution, from the EU or from the citizens? What do the citizens say? – VMRO-DPMNE MP Gordana Siljanovska Davkova asked at Friday’s parliamentary session, also expressing her position that the citizens must be directly asked about such an...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 14:54

The ruling coalition has only 70 MP votes for the constitutional amendments, Friday voting revealed

Only 70 MPs voted for Friday’s Parliamentary session agenda, which had only one item – the need to amend the Constitution. 47 MPs voted against it. The debate may last for days, but no more than 10, as it is stipulated in the Procedures Rules. At the end of the debate, the Speaker may call...
Macedonia 18.08.23 | 13:00

MP Mizrahi: I have 7,300 reasons, turned into ashes in 1943, to vote against the amendments

I have at least 7,300 reasons, of which nothing was left but ashes (referring to the Jews deported from Macedonia under Bulgarian occupation in 1943) to vote against the constitutional amendments! I have at least two million reasons – who clearly state that they are against the Bulgarian diktat...
Macedonia 17.08.23 | 14:54

MoFA Osmani in a letter to the MPs begs them to include the Bulgars to the Constitution

Ahead of Friday’s session of Parliament on the constitutional amendments, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bujar Osmani addressed the MPs in an open letter Thursday, stating that their decision will determine whether the country will continue negotiations or bring them to a long-lasting standstill without...
Macedonia 16.08.23 | 14:36

VMRO-DPMNE has a strategy for the Friday Parliamentary session on constitutional amendments

The VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group will attend the Macedonian Parliaments’s plenary session on Friday, dedicated to the constitutional amendments, the coordinator of the group, Nikola Micevski said on Wednesday. Micevski added that the public will be introduced to VMRO-DPMNE’s strategy...
Macedonia 16.08.23 | 12:04

Zaharieva revealed Bulgaria’s wishes: It is best if there are no borders between our countries

The Republic of Macedonia must implement the necessary reforms and meet the conditions if it wants to start the negotiations with the EU, ex-MoFA of Bulgaria, and Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs, Ekaterina Zaharieva, said on Wednesday commenting on the pending voting on...
Macedonia 01.08.23 | 14:59

Shekerinska with an “ingenious” idea: VMRO-DPMNE to vote for the amendments, if Bulgaria blocks, Macedonia will reverse the process

The former Vice-PM Radmila Shekerinska came up with an idea of how to make VMRO-DPMNE vote for constitutional amendments. She asked the ruling parties to prepare a specific and clear proposition, which will call upon the opposition to vote for the amendments, but previously all parliamentarian parties...
Macedonia 31.07.23 | 14:51

Gashi: I wish the constitutional amendments pass, but it doesn’t depend on my party’s MPs

The Chairman of the ethnic Albanian political party Alternative, Afrim Gashi, in an interview with the daily Local said that he personally wishes that the constitutional amendments pass but stresses that it doesn’t depend on his party because of the number of MPs. He added that the party’s...
Macedonia 31.07.23 | 12:42

DUI will waive the right on provisional ethnic Albanian PM, only if the opposition votes for the constitutional amendments

For the future of our country, we are prepared to waive our MP mandates, the provisional government, and the ethnic Albanian PM. We will waive the entire political agreement with the coalition provided that the opposition votes for the constitutional amendments. This is what Vice-PM Artna Grubi told...
Macedonia 28.07.23 | 18:12

Mickoski: Xhaferi’s statement confirms no parliamentary majority for constitutional changes

The statement of Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi that he would postpone the Parliament session if 80 votes are not secured for the constitutional changes only confirms there is no two-thirds majority for their adoption, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski on Friday. Mickoski told reporters that...
Macedonia 28.07.23 | 08:30

Mickoski: If the Government had the 2/3 majority, they would have submitted the constitutional amendments by now

If they had the 2/3 majority at any moment during the past year, they would have submitted the constitutional amendments and everything would have been clear. But, they don’t and they just keep on buying time, because their political careers will be over, Mickoski told the reporters on Thursday. “The...
Macedonia 27.07.23 | 13:09

The parliament session on constitutional amendments will start on August 18 – no one knows when it will end

The plenary session of the Macedonian Parliament on the constitutional amendments will start on August 18 and should last for ten days. The voting is not linked to the last day of the session – that is according to Parliament Rule Book, Chairman Xhaferi claims. “The act of voting is not...
Macedonia 26.07.23 | 16:15

Miloshoski: The number of MPs who won’t vote for the constitutional amendments is rising

I think that the number of MPs who will vote against the constitutional changes is growing. Preoccupied with the VMRO-DPMNE MPs, the ruling majority failed to see the resistance in their own ranks, VMRO-DPMNE MP Antonijo Miloshoski told Sitel TV. “Their MPs are leaving the majority and forming...
Macedonia 26.07.23 | 08:37

Mickoski: There will be no constitutional amendments, elections in the Autumn are the only solution

The constitutional amendments will not pass and the only solution is early elections this Autumn, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said in an interview with  TV Tera. “I hope that there will be early elections this Autumn, but we are not the majority in the Parliament, so can’t decide...
Macedonia 25.07.23 | 15:16

Kotsarev: Let’s all say a powerful NO to the constitutional amendments, to the fierce pressuring

It is time for all of us to say NO to the constitutional amendments under these conditions, it is time to say NO to all the pressures that the Macedonian citizens endure daily and with unprecedented ferocity and no scruples, Ljupcho Kotsarev, President of  the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences,...
Macedonia 25.07.23 | 14:52

Another MP of the ruling majority won’t vote for the constitutional amendments

Enes Ibrahim, a member of the Party for the Turkish Movement, which is in coalition with the ruling SDSM, announced that he won’t support the constitutional amendments, making the thin ruling majority even thinner. Ibrahim objects to the structure of the Committee for Relation between the Communities,...
Macedonia 25.07.23 | 10:53

The Parliamentary Commission adopted the need for constitutional amendments; VMRO-DPMNE MPs voted against

The Chairman of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, who also chairs the Parliamentary Commission on Constitutional Issues opened on Tuesday the session on constitutional amendments. Upon adopting the agenda, the proposer, PM Kovachevski, elaborated the proposal, and the debate started. VMRO-DPMNE MPs participated...
Macedonia 24.07.23 | 21:51

Mickoski: VMRO-DPMNE position is clear: no support for the constitutional amendments

For more than a year I am repeating our position and I think that it is very clear and unaltered, so I don’t see any reason to alter it under this diktat. My position is supported by all party organs, the coalition partners, and by the MP group. We sincerely expect European behavior from our strategic...
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