Tag: sdsm
Macedonia 03.03.20 | 12:32

Coalition with Besa – the beginning of the end of SDSM?

SDSM and BESA signed a pre-election coalition, but they have not revealed which political platform this coalition is based on. They would have done it in the coming period. SDSM’s new and serious contribution to the theory and practice of political science. Everywhere in the world, political parties...

Macedonia 03.03.20 | 11:08

Old SDSM members say SDSM-BESA coalition steers away from party course and spoils inner unity

Some analysts have declared the SDSM-Besa coalition a coalition out of necessity, which should bring to SDSM the Albanian votes that Zaev loses because of unfulfilled promises and which he did not win in the first round of presidential elections, “Netpress” reported. “Netpress”...

Macedonia 02.03.20 | 12:46

BESA doesn’t see other Albanian parties joining their coalition with SDSM

The BESA party said it doesn’t expect to see its coalition with SDSM expanded to include other ethnic Albanian parties. BESA deputy leader Kastriot Rexhepi said that they now have a deal with SDSM, and he doesn’t see the Alliance of Albanians or Alternative joining them. We always wanted...

Macedonia 02.03.20 | 11:50

The SDSM led Government barely spends any of the funds earmarked for infrastructure

Infrastructure investments are at mere 1.67 percent in January 2020, the Kurir news site reports based on Finance Ministry data. This is by far the lowest level of spending the money that are already appropriated in the budget for building up Macedonia’s infrastructure since its independence. The...

Macedonia 01.03.20 | 22:24

DUI’s Bujar Osmani says that the SDSM-BESA coalition is an unprincipled attempt to save those two parties

DUI party official Bujar Osmani condemned the pre-election coalition formed between SDSM and BESA as “unprincipled”. Their electoral math is only focused sustaining those parties on the political scene. We focus on the votes of the citizens, and we will consider forming a coalition after...

Macedonia 27.02.20 | 22:07

SDSM’s Muhamed Zekiri doesn’t want DUI in a post-election coalition

Muhamed Zekiri, the deputy leader of the SDSM party who is also the head of the party’s Albanian wing, said that he wants to see a ruling coalition that will exclude DUI. Zekiri has a notoriously bad relationship with SDSM’s largest coalition partner, as the two parties are vying for the...

Macedonia 22.02.20 | 15:11

SDSM: There are serious indications that VMRO-DPMNE with black money from abroad corrupts media to work against NATO and EU

VMRO-DPMNE does not want to look at the facts that raise suspicion that Hristijan Mickoski’s party with black money from Hungary is corrupting the media to spread fake propaganda against the state, SDSM reacts. According to the ruling party, the opposition with black money from abroad is corrupting...

Macedonia 22.02.20 | 10:13

Zaev: We are no longer a Macedonian party

Zoran Zaev yesterday in Vinica noted that SDSM is no longer a Macedonian party, but a multiethnic party with a dominant Macedonian electorate, and as he said it is in line with the ethnic composition of the state.

Macedonia 21.02.20 | 21:51

MAN: SDSM attacks critical media outlets and EU/NATO member state Hungary

The Macedonian Association of Journalists (MAN) strongly condemned the move by the ruling SDSM party to demand a criminal investigation into the main critical media outlets in the country. SDSM spokeswoman Bogdanka Kuzeska accused Alfa TV and the news sites Kurir, Netpress and Lider of being funded by...

Macedonia 21.02.20 | 21:32

Pendarovski promises he won’t back SDSM and DUI, and will give the mandate to whoever has 61 votes

President Stevo Pendarovski said that he will give the mandate to form the next Government to whichever party offers proof that it has 61 votes in Parliament. Pendarovski added that he will not unfairly favor the SDSM and DUI parties, who backed his election campaign. I’ve said that I will not...

Macedonia 21.02.20 | 14:05

Fascist SDSM’s terror against critical media

With the date of the early parliamentary elections approaching and when polls showing the opposition in advantage, the ruling SDSM seems set to make a desperate move to reinforce attacks on media outlets that critically monitor the work of the current government, which are not under their control, react...

Macedonia 18.02.20 | 21:47

There’s no justice in Macedonia, claims Daskalovski, who carries sandwiches for SDSM members at the march

Yesterday, Infomax released a poll of the SDSM march for justice on the streets of Skopje. The poll found that senior officials of the SDSM, but also ordinary citizens are not satisfied with justice in our country. Perhaps the most dissatisfied was  Marjan Daskalovski, one of Zaev’s closest people,...

Macedonia 17.02.20 | 20:48

Justice Minister Deskoska did not participate in Zaev’s march

Administration staff and other categories of citizens were pressured and blackmailed to attend tonight’s march for justice organized by the SDSM government. But “the country’s largest justice official”, the justice minister, did not appear on the march intended to “symbolize...

Macedonia 15.02.20 | 16:06

Voting on the law on state prosecutors postponed for Sunday

The ruling majority in the Parliament did not try to put the controversial PPO law on state prosecutors to a vote. Shortly after beginning today’s session, Speaker Talat Xhaferi announced that the vote will take place on Sunday, and moved on to other items. The Parliament remained assembled even...

Macedonia 15.02.20 | 09:13

Even with the “Gang of eight”, SDSM couldn’t push their law through – Parliament meets again today

The Macedonian Parliament failed to hold a vote yesterday evening on the proposed PPO law on state prosecutors. The law requires 81 votes, and around 9 in the evening it became apparent that the ruling SDSM party doesn’t have the votes. The session was postponed for today at 13h as the Parliament...

Macedonia 14.02.20 | 12:30

SDSM will not allow the Parliament to dissolve until they get the laws they demand, Spasovski confirms

Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski underlined the determination of his SDSM party not to allow the dissolution of Parliament until the controversial PPO law on state prosecutors, and other legal priorities for SDSM, are adopted. Spasovski was asked whether this pressure from SDSM will mean that...

Macedonia 14.02.20 | 12:22

Xhaferi asks SDSM to say if they’re serious about holding early elections

“We are not married”, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said in response to the threat from the ruling SDSM party that it may cancel its coalition with the DUI party. SDSM said it will kick DUI out of the coalition unless Xhaferi helps them adopt a law that would solidify SDSM’s control...

Macedonia 13.02.20 | 19:13

SDSM buys DUI votes for PPO law with smuggling redrawing of electoral districts

Republika has learnt that there is an ongoing bargaining in the Parliament between SDSM and DUI for the smuggling redrawing of electoral districts. Problem is electoral sistrict 6. DUI demands changes, ie Municipality of Debar and Municipality of Mavrovo and Rostuse to be transferred to electoral district...

Macedonia 13.02.20 | 11:14

VMRO: The leaked tape proves that Zaev is behind the Racket scandal

The Executive Committe of VMRO-DPMNE warns that the ruling SDSM party is pushing Macedonia into an even deeper political crisis and is endangering the EU perspective of the country, after SDSM refused to allow the dissolution of Parliament on Wednesday. This endangers the early elections planned for...

Economy 07.02.20 | 20:26

Yesterday machinery and workers, today dead silence – false promises from SDSM’s pen

I am proud of the personal commitment, dedication and work of the Government in the past period so that today in my hometown starts the realization of the field project of the reconstruction and widening of the national road Kr. Palanka – Deve Bair. This new government investment is worth over...

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