Tag: DUI
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...
Macedonia 30.05.24 | 22:47

Facing relegation to the opposition, DUI will announce its next moves by the end of the week

DUI party official Kreshnik Bekteshi said that the party will declare its next steps by the end of the week. DUI is left out of coalition talks by VMRO-DPMNE and its leader Ali Ahmeti is publicly fuming over this decision, declaring the VLEN coalition “illegitimate” representatives of the...
Macedonia 22.05.24 | 22:02

DUI loses one seat to VLEN, but saves the seat won by oil tycoon Ismail Jahoski

DUI is down one seat in Parliament as result of the repeated voting in two electoral districts. The party managed to save another of its seats that was under challenge, in the 5th electoral district, where oil tycoon Ismail Jahoski is confirmed as member of the next Parliament. DUI lost a seat as the...
Macedonia 19.05.24 | 09:48

On his way out of power, Ahmeti warns about conflict between the rival Albanian political blocs

The DUI party did not announce immediate steps after the State Electoral Commission and the Administrative Court approved repeat of voting in seven polling stations in the north-western and south-western 6th and 5th electoral districts, where DUI could lose two of its 19 seats in Parliament. Ali Ahmeti...
Macedonia 18.05.24 | 16:28

Ahmeti convenes his top officials as the DUI party faces being sent to the opposition for the first time since 2008

This afternoon the DUI party will hold a meeting of its Presidency, to discuss next steps as they are about to be left in opposition for the first time since 2008. Ali Ahmeti’s party, that was formed from his guerrilla movement that began a civil war in 2001, has been in power almost non-stop since...
Macedonia 08.05.24 | 21:51

VLEN leads DUI in Skopje and Tetovo, gets in position to claim that it won the Albanian vote

A major moment in the general elections is that the Albanian opposition bloc VLEN is keeping close behind the ruling Albanian party DUI, even after DUI formed a coalition with a number of ethnic minority parties to try to bolster its results. At the national level, DUI has over 101,000 votes with 67...
Macedonia 08.05.24 | 21:04

Mexhiti calls on DUI to explain its boycott of the presidential elections

Izet Mexhiti, one of the leaders of the Albanian opposition VLEN coalition, called on their rivals DUI to explain their attempt to boycott the presidential elections. Turnout in the presidential election was noticeably lower in the Albanian districts than in the general elections, with DUI supporters...
Macedonia 08.05.24 | 20:48

With 5 percent of votes counted, VMRO dominates, and DUI is ahead of SDSM

VMRO-DPMNE released an updated projection, after computing 14 percent of all polling stations and 5 percent of all votes. It shows VMRO leading SDSM with 36,000 against 11,300 votes. DUI has just under 12,000 votes and the VLEN coalition has 7,300 votes. The projection would put VMRO over the 61 seats...
Macedonia 08.05.24 | 18:30

Boycott attempt failed – the presidential elections will be valid

State Electoral Commission informed that turnout in the presidential elections until 17h reached 42.32 percent. This removes one major issue – whether the presidential elections will be valid, as they require a minimum turnout of 40 percent. There was a noticeable attempt to boycott the presidential...
Macedonia 08.05.24 | 15:40

Gap of 50,000 votes between the general and the presidential election turnout

So far in the dual presidential-general elections in Macedonia, there is a gap of about 50,000 voters, who voted in the general but boycotted the presidential election. By 13h, at the half-way point, there were over 457,000 votes cast in the general election and over 406,000 votes in the presidential...
Macedonia 05.05.24 | 10:23

Mickoski warns that DUI is preparing for ballot stuffing in the contested Albanian municipalities

In a Sitel TV interview, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski warned that the DUI party is preparing massive election bribery in the May 8th general elections. Mickoski pointed to the fact that the State Electoral Commission already found intimidation and ballot stuffing during the first round voting...
Macedonia 04.05.24 | 12:31

VMRO accuses DUI of bribery in cities in eastern Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE accused the ruling DUI party of engaging in extensive bribery of voters, as they try to ward off a serious challenge from the opposition VLEN bloc. DUI officials have been seen even in places like Vinica, Kocani, Berovo and Delcevo, buying votes from citizens gathered in religious temples....
Macedonia 04.05.24 | 10:17

Mickoski rejects any chance of coalition with DUI, warns about their armed group in Skopje

VMRO-DPMNE president Hristijan Mickoski reiterated that the DUI party will not be part of the next Government, and will have to spend some time in opposition to reform itself. In an interview with the Albanian language Alsat TV, Mickoski warned that an armed group close to DUI is deployed in the capital...
Macedonia 29.04.24 | 21:37

Mickoski urges all opposition parties to support Siljanovska and help send DUI to the opposition

.In a TV interview aired this evening, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski issued an invitation to the opposition parties on the Macedonian political scene to join VMRO-DPMNE, as the clear winner of the first round of the presidential elections. I called for national unity, unity against the Government,...
Macedonia 24.04.24 | 23:02

Kasami: DUI did not win the Albanian vote

Tetovo Mayor Bilal Kasami said that, despite their victory in the Albanian camp, DUI did not win the Albanian vote in the first round of the elections. DUI candidate Bujar Osmani defeated the candidate of the VLEN opposition Albanian bloc Arben Taravari. According to latest results, Osmani won just over...
Macedonia 20.04.24 | 11:07

Mickoski: SDSM are prepared to give 70 percent of all public positions to Artan Grubi’s regime

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski coined a new term for the DUI – SDSM Government. During the rally in Kriva Palanka yesterday, he modified the recent designation of Macedonia as a “cyclical hybrid regime” in terms of its democracy and labeled it an “Artanoid cyclical regime”....
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