Tag: DUI
Macedonia 10.11.24 | 20:40

Alliance of Albanians pledges to investigate DUI’s abuses over the past two decades

The Alliance of Albanians met today to map out its plan for activity in the next to years. Party leader and Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari said that the AA will work to achieve zero corruption and zero tolerance for violent extremism. The party will continue to focus on the abuses of power during...
Macedonia 09.11.24 | 21:15

“Politicians from the previous Government who abused their positions will have problems”

Some politicians from the previous Government will face problems connected to the massive abuses they have done in the past, noted Prime Minister Mickoski, speaking to the press during his visit to Veles. Mickoski was asked about the push for early elections from the opposition parties, primarily DUI. I...
Macedonia 03.11.24 | 11:07

VLEN challenges Ahmeti – they call on him to withdraw from politics if he loses the next elections

Albanian parties in Macedonia are arguing over the idea of holding early general elections in spring, along with the local elections. The idea was mentioned by Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, apparently in jest, as he was debating SDSM party leader Venko Filipce during the question time in Parliament. But...
Macedonia 17.10.24 | 11:26

Sela denies reports that he plans to break the coalition with DUI

Ziadin Sela denied reports that his Alliance of Albanians is also planning to leave the coalition with DUI. DUI recently lost one of its main coalition partners – Menduh Thaci’s DPA party. These media spins are coming from the kitchen of VLEN, said Sela, accusing the ruling Albanian coalition...
Macedonia 16.10.24 | 19:37

According to Mickoski, the promoted “Albanian academy” is a mere civic organization

Regarding the creation of an organization of Albanian scientists and artists, with the support of municipalities that are ran by the VLEN coalition, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that this is a civic organization and that the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences remains the only such academy...
Macedonia 15.10.24 | 19:29

Ahmeti expresses despair after Albania opened EU accession talks while Macedonia was left behind

DUI leader Ali Ahmeti issued a statement congratulating Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama on the opening of EU accession talks, and expressing regret that Macedonia is not opening the talks as well. I sincerely congratulate to all Albanians, and to Prime Minister Edi Rama, and his entire team, who worked...
Macedonia 30.09.24 | 22:15

Mexhiti: Albanian politicians were involved in high corruption

Deputy Prime Minister Izet Mexhiti said that the Government will not fight against crime based on the ethnicity of the suspects. Mexhiti added that there is tendency to portray ethnic Albanians as guilty of corruption, but also acknowledged that in some cases the allegations are justified. We have reached...
Macedonia 15.09.24 | 10:45

DUI and VLEN are arguing over the language of a road sign

Deputy Prime Minister Izet Mexhiti accused his political opponent, Ali Ahmeti’s DUI party, of allowing road signs without Albanian inscription in them. The two rival parties, DUI and VLEN, are arguing after a sign at the border crossing Blace with Kosovo was placed in Macedonian, English and French,...
Macedonia 20.08.24 | 10:33

State Department says the US is in constant communication with the Macedonian Government, following concerns about ethnic destabilization

The United States are in regular communication with Government officials on matters of mutual concern, the US State Department told Voice of America, when asked about concerns raised by Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski. Mickoski is warning that the DUI party, recently disenfranchised after...
Macedonia 12.08.24 | 10:04

DUI criminals will be held accountable

DUI criminals will be held accountable; that’s why they are nervous. On top of that, they know they can no longer do whatever they want, according to the VMRO-DPMNE party’s announcement. Their nervousness is even greater because they can no longer act as they please. This was evident in yesterday’s...
News 11.08.24 | 15:53

DUI Faces Accountability: No More Illegal Constructions by Party Oligarchs

DUI is in a panic because Ahmeti’s son-in-law, Musa Xhaferi’s family, the sons of their former officials, and Putzko Petrol will no longer be able to build wherever they please. It’s unclear what motivates DUI to talk about the urban mafia when it’s a matter of their own officials’...
Macedonia 11.08.24 | 08:19

VMRO calls on SDSM not to join Ahmeti’s plans to destabilize the country

VMRO-DPMNE are calling out the SDSM party to come out publicly against its former coalition partner DUI which, VMRO warns, is preparing a number of ethnically charged and destabilizing moves in autumn. According to VMRO leader and Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski, DUI wants to respond to the fact that...
Macedonia 07.08.24 | 08:41

DUI calls for international vetting of top public officials; VMRO-DPMNE asks them why didn’t they introduce it when they were in power?

The DUI party is proposing that international organizations conduct vetting of all top level appointees in the Macedonian Government. In a statement, the party said that it rejects the widespread allegations of high level corruption against them, and insists that a new condition is introduced to vet...
Macedonia 04.08.24 | 11:03

Mickoski warns that DUI may try to endanger the inter-ethnic peace in Macedonia

In an interview with Fokus, Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that DUI endangers inter-ethnic relations in Macedonia and the peace and stability of the country, and that the Government will take steps to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Macedonia. This is in response to calls...
Macedonia 28.07.24 | 17:24

Parties across the political spectrum denounce VLEN idea for an Albanian academy of sciences

The Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the only such institution that unites Macedonian scientific work and includes scientists from all ethnic backgrounds, said VMRO-DPMNE in a statement, responding to the initiative from Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari and other officials from the VLEN coalition. The...
Macedonia 21.07.24 | 13:24

DUI’s nationalist push is an attempt to divert attention from their criminal record

DUI’s Ali Ahmeti is pushing a proposal to create regions in Macedonia, as response to him being left out of Government for the first time in almost 20 years. The former warlord insists that the fact that DUI, which narrowly won more ethnic Albanian votes than the VLEN coalition, is not in the Government...
Macedonia 20.07.24 | 11:51

VLEN warns DUI they will have to account for their past abuses

The VLEN coalition has warned the DUI party that it will have to face its past of abuse of power, mismanagement of the state institutions and corruption. There needs to be accountability for former FOreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who, contrary to all logic, signed a 960,000 EUR car rental deal for the...
Macedonia 28.06.24 | 18:49

New Government revokes DUI’s parting gift to one of its corrupt officials

In one of its first decisions, the newly elected Government determined that the Interior University of Struga, owned by controversial Mayor Ramiz Merko, will not be allowed to open a medical faculty. The outgoing DUI led Government allowed its high ranking official Merko to set up this potentially highly...
Macedonia 21.06.24 | 12:54

VMRO is not required to choose DUI as coalition partner, says Ambassador Aggeler

US Ambassador to Macedonia Angela Aggeler acknowledged the right of the winning party VMRO-DPMNE to choose the Albanian VLEN coalition as its partner and to shun the DUI party. DUI was hoping that, as has happened in the past, international officials will pressure VMRO to select them as coalition partner. In...
Macedonia 17.06.24 | 18:53

Mickoski: We restored 3/4 of the concessions SDSM made to DUI

We were able to restore at least three quarters of the concessions SDSM made to DUI, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, a day after he announced the line-up of the new Government, in which VMRO has a dominant position, unlike the even and even subordinate role SDSM played with regard to DUI...
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