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Macedonia 11.01.22 | 14:29

Kovacevski tries to blame the opposition for the latest spike in the energy crisis

New SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski spoke out on the growing energy crisis in Macedonia, which is currently also affecting tens of thousands of households in the capital Skopje who are connected to several gas fired central heating system. Due to high gas prices, the suppliers are cutting down on...
Macedonia 11.01.22 | 11:34

Mickoski says that Kovacevski is keeping discredited officials who caused numerous scandals to remain as part of the Government

In a statement for Deutsche Welle, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski reacte to the old and new Government ministers proposed by the SDSM party. According to Mickoski, the list includes people responsible for major failures in the Zaev governments, who are also responsible for the major defeat SDSM...
Macedonia 11.01.22 | 11:22

After sacking them from the party leadership, Kovacevski decides to keep Zaev’s top loyalists in his cabinet

After removing some of the top Zaev people from the party leadership, new SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski has apparently decided to keep them in the Government. This list includes Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, who was removed as SDSM Vice President. Spasovski singlehandedly lost SDSM their...
Macedonia 10.01.22 | 12:21

Kovacevski endorses Petkov’s plan to expand the negotiations between Macedonia and Bulgaria

New SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski, who has avoided saying much of substance in the past weeks after he succeeded Zaev, is formulating his positions on the dispute with Bulgaria ahead of the planned visit by Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov. In an interview, Kovacevski endorsed Petkov’s...
Macedonia 05.01.22 | 18:31

SDSM officials will meet on Monday to discuss the state of the coalition talks as they try to form a new Government

SDSM party deputy leader Sanja Lukarevska said that the party will meet on January 10th to determine the composition of the Government that its leader Dimitar Kovaceski is supposed to propose to Parliament. Kovacevski is trying to juggle growing demands from his coalition partners, who became restless...
Macedonia 04.01.22 | 15:40

SDSM is violating the law on public education

New SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski is violating the law on high education with his decision to appoint deans from public faculties to the Executive Board of the SDSM party, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski. The opposition party informs that Ana Daneva Markova, pro-dean of the Medical...
Economy 04.01.22 | 09:34

VMRO: Zaev and Kovacevski are to blame for the steep energy prices

The continuation of Zoran Zaev’s policies under Dimitar Kovacevski is already harming our citizens, with the price hikes of energy and gas hitting their budget in the New Year, said the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party in a press release. Living standards are dropping with the hike in the energy price...
Macedonia 29.12.21 | 14:56

Mickoski: I expect nothing new from Kovacevski, only the continuation of Zaev’s failed policies

I expect that the new SDSM leader Dimitar Kovaceski will continue Zoran Zaev’s policies of failure and lack of strategy, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski. Kovacevski was given the mandate to form the next Government by President Stevo Pendarovski today after he took over the SDSM party...
Macedonia 29.12.21 | 13:45

Pendarovski gives Kovacevski the mandate to form the next Government

President Stevo Pendarovski awarded the mandate to form the next Government to the newly appointed SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski. In his brief remarks, Kovacevski said that he begins the forming of the next Government, a process which he is bound to complete in 20 days. The times call for stable...
Macedonia 29.12.21 | 08:50

VMRO calls on Kovacevski to apologize to the nation for Zaev’s crimes and racketeering

We call on Dimitar Kovacevski to apologize to the public for Zoran Zaev’s crimes and racketeering, said the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party in a press statement. Dimitar Kovacevski needs to apologize for the plundering of the country that Zaev carried out over the past five years. In this period, 60,000...
Macedonia 29.12.21 | 08:46

President Pendarovski will give the mandate to Dimitar Kovacevski

President Stevo Pendarovski is expected to award the mandate to form the next Government to the new SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski today at 13h. With this, Kovacevski will have a period of 20 days to put together a Government and a program and submit it to Parliament for approval. In a Sitel TV...
Macedonia 28.12.21 | 15:26

Sela: Kovacevski doesn’t have legitimacy to lead a Government

Alliance of Albanians leader Ziadin Sela said that with the resignation of Zoran Zaev as leader of SDSM and Prime Minister, the ruling coalition no longer has legitimacy. Zaev is trying to leave the coalition and the Government to his handpicked successor Dimitar Kovacevski. Kovacevski does not have...
Macedonia 28.12.21 | 13:04

New officials in SDSM but a lot of old baggage

Even as SDSM is trying to present its new party leadership as a clean break and a group of fresh faces, they carry tremendous baggage, both from the Zaev era, and from the previous period of Branko Crvenkovski. New party leader Kovacevski removed many of Zaev’s top officials from the party leadership,...
Macedonia 28.12.21 | 10:52

Kovacevski removes most top Zaev loyalists from the SDSM party leadership

Newly appointed SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski made a clean sweep of party officials yesterday, removing numerous Zaev appointees and adding people from the Branko Crvenkovski led wing of the party, which broke with Zaev over the past year. Kovacevski is now hoping to receive the mandate to form...
Macedonia 25.12.21 | 11:10

Dimitar Kovacevski plans to appoint little known SDSM officials as Vice Presidents of the party

While he himself is a little known former telecom executive, new SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski is tapping even less known party officials as the next Vice Presidents of the party. Of the four Vice Presidents appointed by Zaev just 10 months ago, only Fatmir Bytiqi is expected to remain in this...
Economy 25.12.21 | 10:56

Struggling ELEM energy company plans to furlough non-essential workers

The state owned ELEM/ESM energy company ordered its different branches to prepare lists of non-essential employees who could be furloughed. According to the plan, the workers would continue to receive 70 percent of their salaries while staying at home for a period of sevearl month, in an attempt to cut...
Macedonia 24.12.21 | 19:17

Kovacevski will begin making personnel changes in SDSM on Monday

The Central Board of the SDSM party will meet on Monday under the new party leader Dimitar Kovacevski to discuss personnel changes. So far, it’s only clear that former spy chief Mile Zecevic will be named as the Secretary General of the party, but there are numerous other posts to be filled, where...
Macedonia 23.12.21 | 21:15

Pendarovski says that Dimitar Kovacevski is a “major unknown” but indicates he will give him the PM mandate anyway

President Stevo Pendarovski said that the new SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski is little known in the public, but indicated that he will give him the mandate to form the next Government anyway. After Zoran Zaev’s resignation, in the wake of his major defeat in the October local elections, he elevated...
Macedonia 22.12.21 | 19:56

Mickoski: Kovacevski is a blind acolyte of Zoran Zaev

Dimitar Kovacevski is a blind pawn to Zoran Zaev, said VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski, as the ruling SDSM party is trying to execute a change at the top of Government. The first impression from Kovacevski is that he is a follower of Zaev and Zaev’s policies. If we have a blind acolyte...
Macedonia 20.12.21 | 23:26

Zaev brought his successor Dimitar Kovacevski to the Open Balkan summit in Albania

Zoran Zaev took his heir apparent Dimitar Kovacevski to the Open Balkan summit in Albania. Zaev relinquished his party leadership post to Kovacevski and is trying to have the little known former telecom executive installed as Prime Minister next month. Kovacevski praised the initiative to bring Macedonia,...
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