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Macedonia 30.03.20 | 11:51

Janusev to SDSM: Gruevski is your poetry, but your drama begins with Mickoski

Change the record, this is another time … and one piece of advice – get Zaev a mirror, you’ll see Gruevski’s worst edition … accepted, upgraded, expanded … Gruevski is your poetry, but your drama begins with Mickoski soon after today, VMRO-DPMNE Secretary General Igor...
Macedonia 29.03.20 | 11:15

VMRO: SDSM actions are the height of irresponsibility

After the ruling SDSM party rejected the proposal from opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski to work together on reducing the blow to the economy, VMRO-DPMNE said it’s clear the Government only cares about the financial interests of its own leaders. SDSM leader Zoran Zaev is putting forward estimates...
Macedonia 28.03.20 | 21:57

SDSM rejects VMRO offer of cooperation in order to soften the economic blow

The ruling SDSM party rejected the offer from VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski to work together on preparing an economic program that would help soften the blow from the coronavirus epidemic. In a testy and arrogant response, SDSM points out that their record of economic growth over the past years...
Macedonia 27.03.20 | 13:38

With what money will SDSM be financed and go to the polls if the legal source is canceled?

SDSM President Zoran Zaev urges the government to suspend the law by which the state pays the largest parties for their annual work. It is a payment format that was introduced for parties to have no hidden donors among the oligarchs who, after the party is in power, seek to repatriate the donation with...
Macedonia 26.03.20 | 10:55

VMRO: Government officials are spending millions on luxury items while citizens are desperate for medical assistance

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party revealed that the spending the SDSM led Government approved on travel, restaurant lunches and other non-essential items in just a few days during the peak of the coronavirus epidemic (March 17-20) amounted to a total of 8 million denars (130.000 EUR). While hundreds of...
Macedonia 23.03.20 | 22:07

People react on social networks: Will SDSM officials give up their salaries of over 70 thousand denars

Following the announcement by Zoran Zaev that officeholders, mayors, MPs and the public administration will receive a minimum salary of 14,500 denars in April and May in order to stimulate the economy affected by coronavirus, today the public had thousands of questions for SDSM officials. Namely, the...
Macedonia 23.03.20 | 10:30

VMRO rejects Zaev’s proposal to place nearly all public administration employees on the minimum wage

VMRO-DPMNE denounced the proposal from SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev to dramatically cut public employee salaries for the coming two months. VMRO has been proposing alternative measures such as postponing bank loan payments for weeks, before Zaev surprised the public with his announcement that he will...
Macedonia 17.03.20 | 20:05

Full poll showing VMRO with a solid lead over SDSM will be published on Thursday

The Macedonian public television MRTV said it will present the full IPIS poll on Thursday. According to the summary published today, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party enjoyed a comfortable 24-21.5 lead over SDSM even after adding the votes of the small Albanian BESA party to SDSM’s numbers. SDSM...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 15:42

IRI poll: SDSM support drops by 20% in two years

The number of people who supported SDSM two years ago dropped by 20% today, according to an IRI poll ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to which 21% of voters would vote for SDSM in 2018, today the number has dropped to 17 %. Which in the absolute amount of figures is a drop of...
Macedonia 15.03.20 | 15:44

SDSM representatives walk back their call to postpone the elections because of the coronavirus

After calling for the elections to be postponed, the SDSM party representatives in the State Electoral Commission walked back their proposal later today. The announcement was made this morning, when the SEC held a briefing during which the two SDSM representatives Boris Kondarko and Janaki Vitanovski...
Macedonia 12.03.20 | 22:10

Janusev: VMRO nominates fresh faces while SDSM has candidates with extensive corruption records

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party has electoral lists that are 95 percent made up of fresh faces, while the ruling SDSM party is offering candidates mired in corruption scandals over several decades, said VMRO Secretary General Igor Janusev during his debate with his counterpart from the left Ljupco Nikoloski...
Macedonia 12.03.20 | 18:13

Zaev’s persecution of the opposition must continue: courts ordered to continue working through the coronavirus epidemic

As schools and businesses close because of the coronavirus and people are advised to avoid large gatherings affecting the electoral campaign, there is one area where the SDSM led Government is not proposing any steps that would limit the risk of spreading the virus – the judiciary. SDSM and its...
Macedonia 11.03.20 | 14:58

Nomination of a former SDSM insider by VMRO sparks online criticism – and anxiety in the ruling party

The nomination of former journalist Safet Bisevac as candidate for VMRO-DPMNE at the coming elections sparked a heated reaction in the public, mostly because Bisevac was member of Parliament for SDSM between 2011 and 2014. The former A1 TV journalist was nominated by SDSM during the early 2011 elections...
Macedonia 11.03.20 | 12:45

SDSM’s list of candidates reveals which party officials need immunity, VMRO-DPMNE says

The candidates proposed by the ruling SDSM party guarantee that it will continue its current campaign of extortion, crime and corruption, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party said in a press release after both major parties revealed their lists of candidates. VMRO opted for a largely new roster of candidates,...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 17:42

A day after gathering all its officials into a hotel in Skopje, SDSM cancels all public party events to avoid the spread of the coronavirus

The ruling SDSM party announced today that it is suspending all its public campaign activities. This includes the rallies and smaller scale meetings of SDSM party officials with their supporters, and the reason is the coronavirus. Schools are also closed as of tomorrow as the Government tries to handle...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 14:26

Janusev: SDSM does not change, promotes old and compromised staff

SDSM yesterday presented the lists for MP  candidates who are nothing but a rescue of the political career of the criminal racketeering gang headed by Zaev, VMRO-DPMNE Secretary General Igor Janusev said at Tuesday’s press conference, adding that this is a defeat list. Zaev promotes old, worn...
Macedonia 09.03.20 | 15:08

SDSM goes to the polls lead by a duo known for some of its worst electoral defeats

The ruling SDSM party is about to hold a meeting of its Central Committee, to determine the candidates for the coming early general elections. What is known so far is that SDSM will have its leader Zoran Zaev and deputy leader Radmila Sekerinska as heads of party lists. Zaev will likely lead the list...
Macedonia 06.03.20 | 19:43

SDSM and Besa’s first bilingual press conference: We expect to win most seats in the sixth election district

The general secretaries of the new SDSM and Besa coalition held their first press conference in Macedonian and Albanian language his afternoon. Ljupco Nikolovski and Arianit Hoxha said they were aiming to win the most votes in the sixth election district and would try to secure the necessary legitimacy...
Macedonia 05.03.20 | 13:20

Infomax crew intimidated and verbally assaulted by SDSM party activists

The Infomax news site reported that their crew was verbally assaulted by supporters of SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev as they arrived for his press conference today. The assault comes a day after Infomax editor Aleksandar Mitovski was given a suspended sentence of six months in prison for revealing evidence...
Macedonia 05.03.20 | 10:21

Nikoloski: The SDSM – BESA coalition is a manipulative attempt to save Zoran Zaev

The SDSM – BESA coalition is an attempt to manipulate voters and a desperate attempt to save Zoran Zaev, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski about the declared partnership of SDSM with the small ethnic Albanian party. BESA was discussing a pre-election coalition with the other opposition...
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