Tag: kovacki
Macedonia 17.03.24 | 15:39

Kovacki: It’s not just the young, well-off people have started go emigrate because of the lack of order and justice

VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki, who will lead the party’s list in the eastern 3rd electoral district, said that the main issue the voters have raised with him is the high emigration level. The 3rd district is one of the largest by area, it has 22 municipalities. It is heavily depopulated, largely...

Macedonia 20.01.24 | 23:11

Kovacki: Intelligence chief Musliu helped his wife get a 620,000 EUR grant

VMRO-DPMNE member of Parliament Dimitar Kovacki accused Erold Musliu, head of the AR Intelligence Agency of awarding a grant of 620,000 EUR to an organization ran by his wife. Musliu helped his wife win the grant because the organization needed to have a green light from the Government before receiving...

Macedonia 02.01.24 | 22:51

Ethnic Albanians falsely declare they are Macedonians to get jobs in the army

VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki warns about a growing practice that ethnic Albanians who want to get jobs in the military to change their stated ethnicity to Macedonian. The Defense Ministry has a new invention that hasn’t been seen so far. After Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska said that...

Macedonia 10.12.23 | 13:49

Kovacki: The “Safe City” system located the vehicle with which Vanya was kidnapped

Oliver Spasovski is obliged to answer the Macedonian public why on December 4, during his press conference, he lied that Panče’s vehicle, in which Vanya was kidnapped, was not registered in the “Safe City” camera system before November 27, i.e. before the day of the murder, Dragan...

Macedonia 29.08.23 | 16:04

The automatic rifle used by the rogue police chief remains missing

Following the arrest of the police chief in Ropotovo, near Prilep, who was filmed shooting from an automatic rifle, VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki notest that the rifle has not yet been found. Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, who was in the past photographed with the local thug turned police chief,...

Macedonia 21.07.23 | 15:43

Parliament will investigate the possible abuse of spy software

The Parliament Committee on oversight over the intelligence agencies plans to hold a session on the revelations that the OTA agency procured software that is used or spying. The purchase of the Pegasus and Predator softwares was hidden from the public and was only revealed after investigative media reports...

News Macedonia 22.05.23 | 12:10

The Government neglects entire regions in the country, and there are no investments in infrastructure – or in anything else, for that matter, stressed VMRO-DPMNE MP, Dragan Kovacki, following the party’s weekend field activities named “This is Macedonia, for everyone”. Despite...

Macedonia 08.04.23 | 13:44

Defense Minister Petrovsk confirms that her psychiatric report that was published is accurate

Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska acknowledged the veracity of the psychiatric report, showing tha she suffered anxiety and distress. The reports were used in Petrovska’s slander lawsuit against VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki, as she seeks damages for hurt she suffered from his comments....

Macedonia 07.01.23 | 19:04

This Christmas, we must not forget the political prisoners

This Christmas, we need to remember the unjustly imprisoned people who are serving 15 years in prison under the label “terrorists”, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki. May they not lose faith. Justice is slow, but it will arrive, Kovacki said. The Zaev regime sentenced a group of protesters...

Macedonia 23.05.22 | 15:30

“No other Speaker of Parliament in a NATO member state would meet with a pro-Putin Chechen delegation”

The silence over the scandal with the invitation for a Chechen delegation to Macedonia makes SDSM and Prime Minister Kovacevski culpable, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki. Kovacki called on Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi to resign, both over the invitation to a group of pro-Putin Chechen officials,...

Macedonia 27.11.21 | 12:37

VMRO: Zaev is trying to appoint a new SDSM leader who will cover up his crimes and corruption

Zoran Zaev is trying to appoint an heir who will cover up for his crimes and corruption, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki in the first reaction following Zaev’s resignation. Zaev endorsed little known Deputy Finance Minister Dimitar Kovacevski as the next SDSM leader and will try to have...

Macedonia 04.11.21 | 13:34

Kovacki: Zaev and SDSM created the crisis, they can’t lead the country out of it

Macedonia is stuck in a healthcare, economic and energy crisis under Zoran Zaev, and he and his Government can’t provide the solutions out of the systemic crises, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki, as the two main parties are disputing whether to hold early elections or whether Zaev’s...

Macedonia 02.11.21 | 14:50

“Zaev’s resignation is fake, just like Filipce’s resignation”

Zoran Zaev’s resignation appears similar to the resignation offered by Venko Filipce after the Tetovo hospital fire, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki. Under public pressure, Filipce offered his resignation for his moral responsibility for the death of 14 patients and their family members,...

Macedonia 28.10.21 | 18:15

Colonel Kovacki calls on the special police officers to resist orders from Minister Spasovski when he tries to abuse them for his political goals

VMRO-DPMNE official and army colonel Dragan Kovacki called on the members of the special police units to resist attempts by Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski to use them for political goals. VMRO revealed that members of the so-called Tiger unit are being sent to cities which face narrowly contested...

Macedonia 22.10.21 | 21:26

Kovacki: The people gave a red card to Zaev, which will be confirmed on October 31

The citizens said the new political reality on October 17 and they will confirm it on October 31. Practically, the government of Zaev and the team around him is totally delegitimized, they lost in all big municipalities. They lost 5: 0 in Skopje, they will also lose the city of Skopje. Thus, all this...

Macedonia 15.10.21 | 17:23

VMRO published a long list of SDSM officials who are bribing voters

VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki released a lengthy list of names of SDSM party activists who, he said, are preparing to distribute pre-election bribes to voters. Kovacki warned these activists to abandon their plans, because they will be held liable after the elections. The ruling SDSM party has established...

Macedonia 24.09.21 | 15:31

Kovacki: The drugs scandal in Montenegro shows an extreme case of abuse of office

The scandal involving the smuggling of drugs to Montenegro by Macedonian Interior Ministry officials is the worst kind of abuse of office, said VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki. Two high ranking Interior Ministry officials were briefly detained in Montenegro two days ago, when several dozens kilograms...

Macedonia 19.09.21 | 19:22

VMRO condemns the arrest of protesters in Tetovo, insists there must be accountability after the deadly hospital fire

VMRO-DPMNE condemned the response against the protesters in Tetovo on Friday, where distraught families demanded accountability for the deadly fire in the local Covid hospital that killed 15 people. Five protesters were arrested as police prevented them from gathering in front of the DUI party office...

Macedonia 13.03.21 | 10:20

Defense Minister Sekerinska fines outspoken officer Dragan Kovacki

Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska fined colonel Dragan Kovacki in her latest move aimed against the outspoken critic of the way she runs the military. Kovacki recently protested the removal of all national symbols from the uniforms as the SDSM regime is pushing to redefine Macedonian national identity. Sekerinska...

Macedonia 27.05.20 | 09:09

Colonel Kovacki speaks out against SDSM attempts to paint VMRO as anti-Western

In an interview with Alfa TV, army Colonel Dragan Kovacki, who is a candidate at the coming general elections for VMRO-DPMNE, spoke out strongly against the attempts to paint the opposition party as opposed to NATO and the European Union. Kovacki said that it’s laughable when such claims come from...