Tag: resignation
Macedonia 03.01.20 | 16:49

Zaev “forgets” North in his resignation

Now former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, even when leaving office remained consistent with his own political inconsistency, which was a fundamental feature of his rule as well! Notifying Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi on his resignation, Zaev uses the terms Republic of Macedonia and Republic of North...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 14:56

Zaev resigns disappointed and outraged at the EU

The resignation of Zoran Zaev as Macedonian Prime Minister today was seen as a step of disappointment and outrage after the European Union rejected his request to open EU accession talks. Zaev has asked for an early election, noting his “disappointment and outrage” at the European Union’s failure...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 14:44

Parliament accepts Zaev’s resignation

The Macedonian Parliament accepted the resignation of Zoran Zaev as Prime Minister. Zaev did not elaborate his resignation, but his actions are expected to dominate the discussion in Parliament as the interim Government is appointed later in the day. The Government will be led by Zaev’s loyalist...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 10:55

Zaev’s resignation letter submitted to the Parliament

Zoran Zaev’s resignation letter was submitted to the Macedonian Parliament today. In it, he notifies Speaker Talat Xhaferi that he is resigning, and won’t use the option to elaborate his resignation before the Parliament. The letter will then be submitted to President Stevo Pendarovski, who...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 10:21

Milososki: The man who lied about the name change and embarrassed our country is resigning

A man without honor, who swore in his children and ancestors that he won’t change our constitutional name, and who walked over the will of the people expressed in the referendum, using bribes and judicial blackmail against members of Parliament. This is how VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 09:57

Zaev resigns

Zoran Zaev resigned as Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia this morning. His resignation is part of the agreement between the main political parties, to ensure that the public administration will no longer be abused for the benefit of the ruling SDSM party in the run up to the elections. Zaev...

Macedonia 27.12.19 | 22:39

Elections will not be postponed, I’m resigning on January 3, says outgoing PM Zaev

There will be no postponement of the elections. I will submit my resignation to the Government on January 3. Parliament has to endorse the resignation and thus the whole government falls. On the same day, President Pendarovski is to give Oliver Spasovski a mandate to propose a new government and Parliament...

Macedonia 27.12.19 | 13:36

Zaev finally acknowledges that he is an outgoing Prime Minister

With less than a week to go in his office, Zoran Zaev finally publicly acknowledged that he is stepping down as Prime Minister. Zaev agreed to resign on January 3rd as part of the agreement to hold early elections in April 2020, but would then publicly look for various excuses why the elections should...

Macedonia 22.10.19 | 14:08

Greek diplomat: Zaev kept threatening to resign in Brussels, Greece thinks it’s unwise to decouple him from Albania

Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said that Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev kept threatening to resign at the European Council, as a means to pressure the countries into allowing the opening of accession talks./ It’s true that the Skopian side was under a lot of pressure....

Macedonia 19.10.19 | 10:12

Diplomatic sources claim Zaev resigned?

The Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, has resigned from the position of prime minister, Italian news agency “ANSA” reported, citing information obtained from European diplomatic sources after no consensus  was reached at the EU to set date for start of accession negotiations...

Macedonia 17.10.19 | 22:06

Nikoloski: Zaev needs to resign by Monday

Zoran Zaev is responsible for the failure to receive the approval to open the EU accession talks. He needs to resign on Monday, said VMRO-DPMNE deputy leader Aleksandar Nikoloski. Zaev should resign so we can begin to form a technical Government, as provided in the Przino agreement. A technical Government...

Macedonia 16.10.19 | 23:59

Will Zaev actually resign?

French President Emmanuel Macron today declared his opposition to opening accession talks with Macedonia and Albania, citing the need to reform the European Union first. Like the Chancellor, I’m persuaded that the Western Balkans is a strategic place for Europe. On the other hand there are a few things...

Macedonia 16.10.19 | 23:46

Milososki: Zaev and Dimitrov need to resign on Friday if we get no EU accession talks date

If Macedonia does not receive the date to open accession talks by Friday, both Zaev and Nikola Dimitrov should resign, said former Foreign Minister Antonio Milososki. The European Council ends on Friday, and while some hope remains, French President Emmanuel Macron today personally came out in opposition...

Macedonia 16.10.19 | 18:52

What changed? Within hours Zaev changed his position on whether he will resign

During his press conference in Vienna, before the left for Brussels, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev threatened that his Government will be dead by Wednesday unless he returns with a date to open the EU accession talks. Only hours later, in Brussels, Zaev was far more evasive and stopped short of definitely...

Macedonia 06.09.19 | 12:46

Council of public prosecutors says they haven’t received any resignation letter from Janeva

The Council of public prosecutors informed today that they still haven’t received a resignation note from Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva. Yesterday a number of news sites close to Janeva and the Special Prosecutor’s Office informed that she sent out a handwritten resignation letter from...

Macedonia 05.09.19 | 20:01

Katica Janeva submits her resignation

Disgraced Special Prosecutor Katica Janeva today sent out another letter from prison, this time to submit her resignation. Janeva already submitted a conditional resignation in mid July, as soon as her associate Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13 was arrested on racketeering charges, but then she added...

Macedonia 13.08.19 | 23:19

Zaev says he is not considering a resignation or holding early elections

Sidelined by the shocking homophobic and threatening statement Zoran Zaev made this afternoon were his political announcements. The Prime Minister said that he is not considering a resignation or early general elections, despite the major corruption scandal that is rocking his Government. Zaev uses...

Macedonia 09.07.19 | 13:47

Zaev sees no reason to resign after scandalous phone conversations with Russian pranksters

Zoran Zaev held a press conference today to insist that the conversation he had with Russian pranksters, during which he revealed sensitive information and agreed to engage in crime, is not grounds for his resignation. Zaev played the victim during the press conference. Why do you think that was done...

Macedonia 01.06.19 | 12:43

I resign from my seat in Parliament, they are obsessed with me

Former Prime Minister, MP Nikola Gruevski, informed Saturday in a Facebook post that he resigns from his seat in Parliament. The strategy of SDSM is visible in its everyday failures, crime, mass corruption, numerous unfulfilled promises, nepotism, and a myriad of other weaknesses trying to conceal them...

Macedonia 30.05.19 | 19:11

Zekoli: Zaev still finds it ridiculous and absurd to resign

The weeks ahead of us will be relatively decisive for the future of Macedonia and qualitatively for the fate of Zaev as prime minister, political analyst Arsim Zekoli writes in his column for Deutsche Welle. In the third year of his reign, Zoran Zaev still finds it ridiculous and absurd to even mention...

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