Tag: parliament
Macedonia 23.04.21 | 10:29

Members of Parliament are being vaccinated

Members of Parliament are being vaccinated today in the Boris Trajkovski sports hall in Skopje. This is being done to ensure the smooth working of the body, especially as the narrow ruling majority is often unable to even convene the Parliament if several of its representatives contract the virus.  
Macedonia 21.04.21 | 16:06

Speaker Xhaferi prevented the Parliament from initiating a debate on the corruption crisis

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi did not allow the start of the vote of no confidence process against Government ministers Ljupco Nikolovski and Bojan Maricic. The procedure was initiated by VMRO-DPMNE after Macedonia’s dismal ranking in the latest Transparency International report and over the...
Macedonia 21.04.21 | 15:40

Prosecutors are investigating Speaker Xhaferi and two SDSM members of Parliament who violated their isolation orders

The OJO office of public prosecutors announced that it is already investigating the criminal charges proposed by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE and Levica parties against Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi and two members of Parliament from the SDSM led coalition. The charges come after the members of Parliament...
Macedonia 20.04.21 | 11:55

Levica also proposes charges against the two infected SDSM members of Parliament who came to vote in hazmat suits

The Levica party also submitted criminal charges against two coronavirus infected SDSM members of Parliament who came to vote dressed in hazmat suits. Bisera Kostadinova – Stojcevska and Miroslav Bogdanovski violated their isolation orders to come to the Parliament in an attempt by the ruling majority...
Macedonia 19.04.21 | 12:09

Infected members of Parliament who came to vote in biohazard suits violated the law

The two SDSM members of Parliament who came to vote yesterday in hazmat suits while positive to the coronavirus, abused a security protocol that was put in place for different cases. The protocol from last summer allows members of Parliament to vote from a separate hall in the Parliament and to arrive...
Macedonia 17.04.21 | 20:28

Bringing MPs infected with Covid-19 in the Parliament is a criminal act punishable by law

Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi, scheduled the 32nd session with 21 items for tomorrow at 2 pm, including the National Strategy for Fight against Corruption. It will be followed by the 36th session, at which the fifth package of economic measures should be voted so that companies can pay their workers. So...
Macedonia 15.04.21 | 23:12

Mickoski says VMRO will support work in the Parliament on the agreed issues

VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Hristijan Mickoski said that the party will continue to support the work of the Parliament, in line with an agreement he reached with Zoran Zaev, who lacks the majority to convene a session of the Parliament. But, Mickoski said that this applies to the issues that were agreed between...
Macedonia Economy 15.04.21 | 21:53

Tensions in the Parliament as the stimulus package vote was delayed once again

The agreement to unblock the work of the Parliament was not being implemented easily today. The ruling majority wanted to advance on a number of items on their legislative agenda, while he opposition parties like VMRO-DPMNE, who are asked to provide the necessary quorum, wanted talk to focus on the urgent...
Macedonia 14.04.21 | 17:19

Xhaferi calls for a meeting to resume legislative work in the Parliament

Speaker Talat Xhaferi announced a meeting of the heads of party groups in Parliament, to discuss next steps after the work of the legislative body was unblocked by the party leaders. A number of laws are on the agenda and were stalled for months as the ruling “majority” was unable to gather...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 21:25

Parliament finally approves bill to postpone the census for September

After a delay of one day, the Macedonian Parliament voted today to postpone the census from April to September, and also to postpone the municipal elections from the first to the second half of October. The proposals were accepted with 95 votes in favor and 12 against. The Zaev regime was determined...
Macedonia 02.04.21 | 16:41

Parliament session to postpone the census delayed because of parking issues

Shortly after the Parliament began today’s session, it was postponed for later in the afternoon. The main item on the agenda is to postpone the census that was planned to begin in April, and to hold it in September, when the coronavirus crisis will hopefully subside. Albanian parties strongly object...
Macedonia 01.04.21 | 16:44

US Ambassador Byrnes met with Albanian opposition leaders to get them to agree to postpone the census

US Ambassador to Macedonia Kate Byrnes intervened today to try and get the two Albanian opposition parties not to block the session of Parliament, which is meant to postpone the census. The Zaev regime initially agreed to pressure from its Albanian coalition partners to hold a “corona census”...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 17:03

Government succumbs to VMRO-DPMNE’s pressure regarding the proposed stimulus bill

The government and the opposition found a common ground regarding the blocked 36th session. After the coordination of the Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi with the parliamentary parties, the session will resume only on the proposed stimulus bill. After setting the agenda, the coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE,...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 16:00

Xhaferi’s attempt to hijack the Parliament fails, only the economic stimulus bill will be on the agenda

After a tense day in the Parliament, the ruling coalition and VMRO-DPMNE reached agreement that work will resume only on the proposed stimulus bill and several other urgently needed items for which VMRO offered to provide the quorum. The coalition and Speaker Talat Xhaferi tried to use the fact that...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 13:20

Chaos in the Parliament – Xhaferi stopped the question time session to try to adopt bills from the agenda of the ruling coalition

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi violated the rules of the house and stopped the session meant to have members of the Government answers questions from the representatives. Instead, Xhaferi insisted that the Parliament debates the proposed stimulus package and other items of the agenda of the SDSM –...
Macedonia 25.03.21 | 12:00

VMRO-DPMNE representatives in the Parliament offer their support for the blocked stimulus bill

VMRO-DPMNE members of Parliament gathered today and invited the ruling SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition to convene a session of the legislative body and to have the proposed economic stimulus packaged voted in. The offer comes as Prime Minister Zoran Zaev raised the idea of having President Stevo...
Macedonia 24.03.21 | 16:25

Xhaferi refuses Mickoski’s offer that the opposition provides quorum in the Parliament

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi refused the offer from VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski that the opposition provides the quorum necessary to adopt the most critically needed pieces of legislation, such as the proposed stimulus package.The ruling SDSM – DUI – BESA majority doesn’t...
Macedonia 23.03.21 | 12:30

Janusev: SDSM does not have majority in the Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE official Igor Janusev said that it is now clear that the ruling SDSM led coalition does not have majority in Parliament. SDSM has been unable to advance almost any legislation, since out of its 62 members, at any given time a few are either sick or abroad, and it takes 61 votes to begin a...
Macedonia 22.03.21 | 14:54

The ruling “majority” refuses offer of help from the opposition and delays the adoption of the stimulus package

The opposition offered to the ruling majority today that the Parliament holds a session and discuss a number of urgently needed laws, including the fifth coronavirus linked stimulus package. But Speaker Talat Xhaferi refused the offer from VMRO-DPMNE. The SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition has only...
News 15.03.21 | 20:27

Slaveski. The inability of the ruling majority to adopt its proposed stimulus is not the fault of the opposition

VMRO-DPMNE official and former Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski said that the blame why the latest proposed stimulus package has not been adopted in Parliament rests with the ruling majority. The SDSM – DUI – BESA coalition has only 62 out of 120 seats in the Parliament and frequent travels...
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