Tag: DUI
Macedonia 17.09.21 | 22:38

Two arrests and four officers injured in the Tetovo protests

Two arrests and four injured is the aftermath of the protests in Tetovo today, where families of the patients killed in the catastrophic Covid hospital fire, and hundreds of citizens, tried to rally in front of the DUI party office. A police unit tried to stop them, which led to clashes. Two men, a 52...

Macedonia 17.09.21 | 18:22

Chaotic scenes in Tetovo show that DUI is losing popular support

Citizens of Tetovo notably sided with the protesters today, during a demonstration aimed at the office of the DUI party and the city hall. Protesters demanded accountability from DUI, its leader Ali Ahmeti and Mayor Teuta Arifi, as well as from the Zaev regime, for the catastrophic fire in the Tetovo...

Macedonia 13.09.21 | 11:55

Leaked audio tape shows top DUI officials discussing rigging of judicial appointments

An audio tape showing top DUI party officials apparently rigging the outcome of judicial appointments, was leaked today. The leaker is El Cheka, a Macedonian Albanian man living in the United States who has often leaked tapes from the large cache of secretly recorded conversations used by Zoran Zaev...

Macedonia 08.09.21 | 18:11

DUI congratulates Independence Day, demands equality

The Democratic Union for Integration congratulates all citizens of our country September 8 – the 30th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Macedonia, and believes that equality and mutual respect is based on a common path to new challenges and successes such as the country’s...

Macedonia 04.09.21 | 20:24

DUI presents its mayoral candidates

The DUI party formally announced its 17 mayoral candidates today for the elections that take place on October 17th. Three key incumbents are on the list. Despite horrific problems with waste collection and water supply, Teuta Arifi will run for a third term in Tetovo, Macedonia’s largest Albanian majority...

Macedonia 26.08.21 | 15:37

Miteva: The alleged split in the SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition is a show for the public

VMRO-DPMNE spokeswoman Marija Miteva dismissed talks about a split in the SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition, after BESA, the smallest of the three ruling partners, said that it will run its own, independent candidates in the local elections. They announced a coalition, and now they nominate separate...

Macedonia 26.08.21 | 12:18

Opposition Albanian parties nominate their candidate for the face-off with DUI in Struga

The Alliance of Albanians nominated Idri Istrefi, former head of the Council of the municipality of Velesta for Mayor of Struga. Istrefi will face off with the DUI candidate Ramiz Merko in one of the most anticipated competitions between the parties representing ethnic Albanians at the coming local elections. The...

Macedonia 28.07.21 | 14:52

Skopje Appeals Court overturns the sentences in a rare case filed against DUI party officials

The Skopje Appeals Court overturned the sentence against two DUI party officials – Ismet Guri and Ejup Alimi – who faced three and a half years in prison for destroying election materials. The case against them was initiated by the Special Prosecutor’s Office – the highly politicized...

Macedonia 23.07.21 | 18:58

BESA will wait for more details about the SDSM – DUI coalition before it announces its next steps

Arianit Hoxha, from the BESA party, said that they are still examining the announcement of their coalition partners SDSM and DUI that they are forming a coalition for the coming municipal elections. BESA wants to challenge DUI for the mayoral seat in the largest Albanian majority city in Macedonia –...

Macedonia 20.07.21 | 20:29

Zaev is on collision course with Ahmeti over the mayoral race in Tetovo

Zoran Zaev responded to the demands from his Albanian coalition partners by playing it coy. The DUI party demands that Zaev supports their candidate in the coming local elections in Tetovo, but BESA demands that he remains neutral. Both these parties hope they can win the mayoral seat in Tetovo and both...

Macedonia 20.07.21 | 15:51

Ahmeti sets ultimatum for Zaev: Either support for DUI candidates or early parliamentary elections together with the local elections!

Either SDSM support for DUI candidates in Tetovo, Gostivar, Struga, Kicevo, Cair in the first round of elections or holding early parliamentary elections along with the local elections because DUI leader Ali Ahmeti will break up the government coalition. Ahmeti will put this on the table in front of...

Macedonia 14.07.21 | 10:04

Zaev says he will meet with Ahmeti to discuss cooperation in the municipal elections

Zoran Zaev announced that by the end of July he will meet with Ali Ahmeti to discuss cooperation between their SDSM and DUI parties in the municipal elections in October. The two parties cooperated in the 2017 municipal elections, and in the 2019 presidential elections. It is important that we first...

Macedonia 11.07.21 | 12:03

VMRO calls on SDSM and DUI to stop with their intrigues and support the joint resolution on Bulgaria

VMRO-DPMNE called on SDSM and DUI to support the joint resolution on the Bulgarian demands. After VMRO proposed the resolution, SDSM initially resisted, then declared its support, but remains evasive when it comes to ratification. DUI, on the other hand, rejected the resolution but its officials are...

Macedonia 06.07.21 | 18:35

Mickoski calls on DUI to, for once, support the interests of their Macedonian neighbors

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristiajn Mickoski called on DUI and the other ethnic Albanian parties to support the resolution meant to respond to the Bulgarian nationalist demands by preparing unified Macedonian positions. The parties representing ethnic Macedonians in the Parliament, even SDSM, agreed to the resolution...

Macedonia 06.07.21 | 14:02

For now, DUI doesn’t accept VMRO-DPMNE’s resolution, AA/A haven’t adopted position yet

DUI does not accept the resolution submitted to Parliament by VMRO DPMNE. At today’s meeting with the opposition party, they demanded that all parties harmonize the text and vote on it. The Alliance for Albanians and Alternative will take a position after the party bodies discuss this. The Alliance...

Macedonia 10.06.21 | 21:34

DUI is spending 200,000 EUR for a memorial tower to the UCK

DUI party officials will attend the opening of a memorial tower dedicated to the Albanian terrorist NLA/UCK organization in the village of Slupcane in November, when the day of the Albanian alphabet is marked. The undeveloped rural Lipkovo municipality decided to spend 200,000 EUR for he tower. DUI,...

Macedonia 07.06.21 | 22:31

Ahmeti is open to a municipal election coalition with SDSM

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti said that it is possible he will form a coalition with Zoran Zaev’s SDSM party for the October municipal elections. I don’t know, we need to see where our interests lie and where the interests of the citizens are. I think that our coalition with SDSM has been functioning...

Macedonia 07.06.21 | 22:24

Popovska: DUI is going green to gain better access to “green businesses”

Liljana Popovska, former head of the green DOM party, said that the sudden change by the Albanian nationalist DUI party into a “green party” is likely driven by the desire to tap the environmental funds that are being made available. DUI leader and former Albanian warlord Ali Ahmeti announced...

Macedonia 05.06.21 | 16:29

Nikoloski: DUI returns to its roots, in 2001 they started as a green party from the mountains of Macedonia

Answering a reporter’s question regarding the announcement of Ali Ahmeti that DUI is becoming a green party, VMRO-DPMNE Vice President, Aleksandar Nikoloski, said that in the absence of projects and ideas, the ruling coalition SDSM-DUI deals with PR tools. Nikoloski added that DUI is returning...

Macedonia 05.06.21 | 16:12

Ahmeti reveals that green agenda is becoming part of DUI on its 19th anniversary

On the occasion of 19th anniversary of the Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), its leader Ali Ahmeti revealed on Saturday that the green agenda is becoming part of DUI’s concept in the upcoming local elections. On the 19th anniversary of DUI we start a new policy and direct action, a policy for...

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