Tag: DUI
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”....

Macedonia 18.04.24 | 22:27

SDSM is prepared to give 70 percent of all seats in Government to the Albanian parties just to cling to power

During his speech at the large VMRO-DPMNE rally in Ohrid, party leader Hristijan Mickoski warned about a plan being formed in the still ruling SDSM party, which faces a serious defeat and could end up with fewer than 30 seats in Parliament – if the polls are correct. Their calculation is that they...

Macedonia 18.04.24 | 18:44

Paranormal situation: Sela parliamentary speaker, Bujar head of state – DUI started the campaign for the parliamentary elections with a simulation

By simulating the constitutive session of the future Assembly, the “European Front”, the coalition led by DUI launched the campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The simulation presented Ziyadin Sela as the president of the parliament, the inauguration of Bujar Osmani as the new...

Macedonia 14.04.24 | 15:54

VMRO asks Pendarovski and SDSM to clearly say whether they will accept the key DUI demand

VMRO-DPMNE called on SDSM and their presidential candidate Stevo Pendarovski to answer whether they will accept the DUI party demand for changes in which the way the President is (s)elected. SDSM are desperate for Albanian votes as they continue to lose support among ethnic Macedonians. Pendarovski already...

Macedonia 13.04.24 | 11:11

After the critical Freedom House report, Albanian opposition parties blame DUI of undermining the judiciary

The VLEN coalition, that unites the main Albanian opposition parties, accused the ruling DUI party of undermining Macedonia’s rule of law. VLEN pointed to the recent Freedom House report that showed Macedonia sliding back in its democracy, mainly because of the rampant corruption. In its 20 years...

Macedonia 13.04.24 | 09:58

DUI welcomes State Department position on the Prespa Treaty

The DUI party issued a statemetn in support of the recent State Department position, that Macedonia must “uphold the spirit of the Prespa Treaty”. The State Department was asked by the Voice of America about the practice to drop the imposed adjective “North” when speaking about...

Macedonia 11.04.24 | 22:28

Mickoski: It would be irresponsible to give DUI and SDSM another term in office

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski told the voters in Dolneni that it would be highly irresponsible if the citizens allowed SDSM and DUI another, third term in office, given all the devastation Macedonia suffered under them. We must not allow it, it would be irresponsible from us, as a generation...

Macedonia 04.04.24 | 23:24

Mickoski prefers coalition with the Albanian VLEN bloc, tells DUI it will be good for them to spend some time in opposition

During the large VMRO-DPMNE rally in Skopje, opposition leader Mickoski openly announced to the Albanian opposition bloc VLEN, which is engaged in a difficult election battle with Ali Ahmeti’s DUI party, that they are the preferred partner for VMRO-DPMNE when coalition making begins after the elections....

Macedonia 03.04.24 | 22:13

“SDSM will remain subcontractors to DUI”

During the televised debate of the leaders of the two main parties, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski told his SDSM counterpart Dimitar Kovacevski that he sees them remaining subcontractors to DUI. Ali Ahmeti’s party amassed unprecedented power in the past years, as the survival of the nominally...

Macedonia 31.03.24 | 19:54

Ahmeti rewards Sela for dividing the opposition with a winning seat in the 5th electoral district

The DUI party, which has lately dominated the Government it jointly forms with SDSM, held its conference today. Party leader Ali Ahmeti announced the lists of candidates for the general elections on May 8th. One of them is Ziadin Sela, former leader of the Alliance of Albanians, who quickly turned from...

Macedonia 28.03.24 | 20:16

Sela’s faction of the Alliance of Albanians joins the DUI led bloc in the elections

As expected, Ziadin Sela, former leader of the Alliance of Albanians, announced that he will join the ruling DUI party in the coming elections. Sela tried to create a faction in the Alliance of Albanians, opposed to the current leader Arben Taravari, after Taravari decided to join the opposition Albanian...

Macedonia 14.03.24 | 11:38

Mickoski addresses DUI’s electoral strategy of fighting “Russian influence”

In his Klan TV interview, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski addressed the allegations from the ruling DUI party, that all parties opposed to them are “working for Russia”. This is the main talking point of the long reigning Albanian party, which is currently facing serious allegations...

Macedonia 26.02.24 | 20:23

Osmani declares that he has the 10,000 signatures necessary to run for President

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani announced today that he is the first presidential candidate who collected the 10,000 signatures necessary to take part in the elections. Osmani is the pick of the ruling DUI party, after its leader Ali Ahmeti decided not to run himself, after initially teasing that idea. It’s...

Macedonia 19.02.24 | 22:14

Ahmeti is trying to back out of the presidential run

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti is likely getting cold feet, after his underling, Deputy Prime Miniter Artan Grubi, last week announced his presidential candidacy. Comments from, echoed by news sites under DUI control and other party officials, clearly indicated that Ahmeti is entering the presidential race. “Only...

Macedonia 15.02.24 | 20:29

Ali Ahmeti plans to run for President?

DUI seems determined to nominate its leader – Ali Ahmeti – for President. Ahmeti’s main lieutenant, Artan Grubi, posted a social media comment declaring – Only Ali Ahmeti! – a clear indication that the former terrorist commander who began the 2001 civil war and has controlled...

Macedonia 10.02.24 | 11:43

Mexhiti: SDSM are silent observers as DUI pursues disastrous policies

As he was being removed as Healthcare Ministry, Fatmir Mexhiti from the Alliance of Albanians party launched a scathing attack not on DUI, the party who insisted that he must go, but on SDSM – the “larger” coalition partner who has enabled DUI’s power-grab over the past seven...

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