Tag: pendarovski
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 22:58

VMRO demands guarantees that public health will be protected and that the elections will be credible

As the meeting between party leaders Hristijan Mickoski and Zoran Zaev failed to result in an agreement on the date for the next elections, VMRO-DPMNE announced its positions in the coming period. The party says that Mickoski will continue to place the public health first, considering badly deteriorating...
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 17:37

Pendarovski made a complete reversal in a matter of two weeks

VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki shared a side-by-side video of President Stevo Pendarovski to illustrate his flip-flop on the state of emergency. Pendarovski today said that he will not extend the state of emergency, despite the fact that Macedonia is in the midst of a record Second Wave of the...
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 16:34

Pendarovski did not consult the Interior Ministry before ending the state of emergency

Interior Minister Nake Culev strongly condemned the decision of President Stevo Pendarovski not to extend the state of the emergency despite the record setting infection and mortality rate of the coronavirus epidemic. Pendarovski is acting in support of the request of his SDSM party to hold elections...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 14:56

As doubts grow whether he can stand up to his party, Pendarovski says he will announce his decision tomorrow

President Stevo Pendarovski announced that he will hold a press conference tomorrow, when he will say whether he will extend the state of emergency beyond the middle of June. With his SDSM party demanding elections as early as July 5, Pendarovski can instill some reason in the party, and delay their...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 22:20

It may fall to Stevo Pendarovski to talk his SDSM party off the ledge

As SDSM intensifies its push for holding “corona elections” on July 5, despite the disastrously bad infection and mortality rates and the on-going Second Wave of the epidemic, it may fall to President Stevo Pendarovski to talk some sense into his party. SDSM insists that Pendarovski has the...
Macedonia 29.05.20 | 09:37

Pendarovski will announce a new decision regarding the state of emergency tomorrow

President Pendarovski announced that he will convene the Security Council on Saturday to discuss whether he will extend the state of emergency for a third time. Macedonia has been under a state of emergency for two and a half months, which allows the Government to rule by decree. Meanwhile, the Parliament...
Macedonia 18.05.20 | 11:24

Member of Pendarovski’s security detail has the coronavirus

On the day of the planned meeting of party leaders, convened by President Stevo Pendarovski, his office revealed that a member of Pendarovski’s security detail was found to be coronavirus positive. The officer was last at his job post a week ago, a day before the previous meeting of party leaders....
Macedonia 18.05.20 | 09:40

Party leaders will hold another meeting to look for a way out of the political crisis

Party leaders are set to meet today to discuss a way out of the political crisis. Macedonia has no Parliament, which was dissolved to make way for the now canceled election on April 12, and the Government rules by executive decrees under a state of emergency. President Stevo Pendarovski, who postponed...
Macedonia 15.05.20 | 23:20

President Pendarovski assures the public that Bulgaria is not seriously thinking about blocking Macedonia’s EU accession talks

President Stevo Pendarovski expressed assurances that Bulgaria will not block Macedonia from opening EU accession talks, despite repeated threats in that regard from top Bulgarian politicians. Bulgaria wants additional concessions in a number of historic and national identity issues before it will allow...
Macedonia 15.05.20 | 17:48

Pendarovski extends the state of emergency for two more weeks

President Stevo Pendarovski decided to order that the state of emergency is extended for two more weeks. Macedonia has been under a state of emergency for two months tomorrow, allowing the Government to rule by executive decrees. Pendarovski said that he met with a number of experts and decided that...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 12:12

Macedonia and Bulgaria call off the planned joint honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Rome because of the coronavirus

The plan to hold a joint honoring of Ss. Cyril and Methodius on May 24 between Macedonia and Bulgaria will not be implemented this year, because of the coronavirus epidemic. The two countries already called off the joint honoring of Goce Delcev on the day of his death – May 4 – as tensions...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 09:30

Pendarovski expected to make a decision on the state of emergency on Friday, as Zaev wants his help to push for “corona elections”

President Stevo Pendarovski plans to hold a meeting of the Security Council on Friday, after which he will make a decision on whether to extend the state of emergency. The second month long decision to declare a state of emergency expires on May 18. It allows the SDSM led Government to rule by decree...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 17:11

Zaev again demands elections as soon as possible, says we have to live with the virus

Following the meeting of party leaders convened by President Pendarovski, SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev came out again with a request that elections are held in June, mid July at the latest. Zaev has been pushing for early elections for weeks, even trying to re-convene the Parliament unilaterally, to...
Macedonia 04.05.20 | 22:42

Sela rejects Pendarovski’s warning that Macedonia may give up its EU integration, claims that the Albanian language is discriminated against

Ziadin Sela, the leader of the Alliance of Albanians, wrote an open letter to President Stevo Pendarovski strongly condemning his position that, if Macedonians are forced to give up their national identity and language in negotiations with Bulgaria, the country should give up its EU accession. Like...
Macedonia 04.05.20 | 19:51

Days after predicting the unification of Macedonia and Bulgaria, Karakacanov calls for a joint monument to Goce Delcev in Greece

On the anniversary of the death of Goce Delcev, Bulgarian nationalist Defense Minister Krasimir Karakacanov raised the idea that Macedonia and Bulgaria jointly ask that a monument to the legendary VMRO leader is built in the now destroyed village of Banica. Delcev was killed on this day, in 1903, fighting...
Macedonia 01.05.20 | 22:17

Pendarovski will convene the party leaders in 10 days

President Stevo Pendarovski said that he will convene a meeting of top party leaders between May 10 and 12. VMRO-DPMNE has been calling for a meeting to resolve the political crisis that has developed as the country is left without a Parliament and is ran by executive decrees under a state of emergency...
Macedonia 01.05.20 | 16:39

Like Zaev before him, Pendarovski portrays himself as a hawk on the Macedonian national identity issue

In an interview set to air this evening, President Stevo Pendarovski is quoted saying that Macedonia “does not need the EU” if the price we need to pay to join the Union is to give up being Macedonians who speak the Macedonian language. Pendarovski did the interview at a time when Bulgaria...
Macedonia 30.04.20 | 12:13

Pendarovski does not agree with Denko Maleski’s position on Bulgaria but will keep him as his foreign policy adviser

The office of President Stevo Pendarovski issued a statement in which he distances himself from the positions of his foreign policy adviser Denko Maleski – who said that Macedonian history was falsified and needs to be aligned with the Bulgarian historic narrative. But Pendarovski did not announce...
Macedonia 29.04.20 | 22:30

President Pendarovski won’t say whether he agrees with his adviser Maleski’s claim that the Macedonian history was falsified

President Stevo Pendarovski is yet to comment on the growing controversy over his foreign policy adviser Denko Maleski, who declared that much of Macedonia’s history was falsified to create a nation separate from the Bulgarian. Maleski, who was once a die-hard opponent of Macedonia’s independence...
Macedonia 28.04.20 | 10:34

Police arrests man who publicly insulted female family members of Zoran Zaev and Stevo Pendarovski

Police officers arrested a man who staged a loud protest in front of the Macedonian Parliament today. The man, identified only as H.J., was filmed standing on a car delivering a lengthy rant in which he mentioned female family members of Zoran Zaev and Stevo Pendarovski. Пуштај короната...
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