Tag: DUI
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...
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...
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