Tag: sdsm
Macedonia 07.02.20 | 15:34

SDSM gave major public contracts to the polluting company it claims is linked to VMRO-DPMNE

The SDSM party continues to try and create a pre-election scandal over the Eko Club company in Bitola. After an environment inspector filmed the company as improperly storing medical waste it was hired to dispose of, the ruling party insists that Eko Club is linked to the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. Interim...

Macedonia 07.02.20 | 13:41

SDSM media and prosecutors go after police officers who they suspect of revealing evidence of Zaev’s corruption

Pro-Government media outlets were ready and well briefed on Thursday evening, when they came out with a report that a judge has ordered the arrest of police officials promoted by the new, interim Interior Minister Nake Culev. Culev, who was appointed to lead a thoroughly compromised department as the...

Macedonia 05.02.20 | 11:05

Media bias: Head of the publicly ran MIA news agency appears as speaker at an SDSM party event

Dragan Antonovski, the director of the publicly ran Macedonian Information Agency, participated at a debate organized by the ruling SDSM party, in violation of the obligation of MIA to remain unbiased and open to all political sides. Antonovski is a political appointee, who took over MIA shortly after...

Macedonia 26.01.20 | 13:38

SDSM reacts to the “La Verita” publications

VMRO-DPMNE through media close to them, with strong links with VMRO-DPMNE staff such as Andrej Lepavcov and Gjorge Ivanov, is desperately trying to construct non-existing cases, SDSM reacted to the Italian “La Verita” publications. La Verita announces new scandal: Zoran and Vice Zaev involved...

Macedonia 25.01.20 | 20:10

Pro-government media ordered not to report on the new affair published by “La Verita”, which involves Zaev

Immediately after the publication of the new affair in the “La Verita” newspaper, where evidence is presented that Zoran Zaev and his brother Vice and several of their close friends were involved in electoral fraud in Strumica, the pro-government media were ordered to be silent on the matter. As...

Macedonia 23.01.20 | 21:27

SDSM is the second largest Albanian party in Macedonia, Ademi says

SDSM party official Edmond Ademi declared his party as the second largest party for ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. SDSM has been courting the Albanian vote since 2016, as it continues to lose ethnic Macedonian voters by a growing margin to VMRO-DPMNE. I am an Albanian who is a Minister from SDSM, the...

Macedonia 22.01.20 | 10:56

SDSM is still pushing its plan to amend the electoral code

The Parliament will again try to hold a discussion on the changes to the electoral code supported by the ruling SDSM party. The proposal would abolish the six electoral districts that currently elect 20 members of Parliament each and replace them with just a single one, where all 120 seats will up for...

Macedonia 18.01.20 | 12:54

VMRO: No SDSM official or family member will be left unemployed until the elections

VMRO-DPMNE accused the ruling SDSM party of using its hold on power to allow its officials to hire close relatives and family members. Nepotism is becoming rampant as Macedonia edges closer to early elections, and many SDSM officials believe this is their last chance to grab perks and benefits for themselves. The...

News 17.01.20 | 23:29

SDSM Secretary General Nikolovski violates his own order, gets filmed at a drunken party

A video recording shows SDSM party Secretary General Ljupco Nikolovski violating the order he himself made – that party officials steer clear of bars and restaurants until election day in order not to damage the party image. SDSM bans its officials from posting selfies from bars and restaurants...

Economy 16.01.20 | 10:13

SDSM will lose permanently in elections, and VMRO-DPMNE will inherit reduced pensions, budget hole, fake capital investments

During his interview with Alsat TV on Wednesday, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski pointed out that the primary task of the VMRO-DPMNE-led government was to fight for higher pensions and salaries. An extremely high-quality team is working on the economic program, compared to what the government...

Macedonia 03.01.20 | 11:34

SDSM is hiring in the public administration like there is no tomorrow

Even as the Zaev Government is being replaced by an interim Government meant to organize the early general elections, it keeps churning out job vacancies. There are currently 247 open ads offering jobs in the public administration, in various central and municipal institutions, most of them under the...

Macedonia 02.01.20 | 17:16

SDSM accepts VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal Nake Sulev to be interim interior minister

The ruling SDSM accepts VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal that Nake Sulev be interim minister in the Interior Ministry. According to the party, Sulev is not a uniformed person and no charges have been filed against him, thus fulfilling the constitutional criteria. With this proposal of VMRO-DPMNE, the Constitution...

Macedonia 30.12.19 | 23:28

SDSM propaganda material is being distributed in a Skopje police station

The Netpress news site published evidence of propaganda material for the ruling SDSM party being distributed in a police station in Skopje. The site published a photograph sent to it by a reader who snapped it in the police station in Gjorce Petrov, in the west of Skopje. The material was displayed in...

Macedonia 29.12.19 | 20:28

SDSM has not yet informed VMRO-DPMNE about its position: It is unserious to communicate on such important topics through press releases

VMRO-DPMNE maintains the position of party leader Hristijan Mickoski voiced today via a Facebook post, party spokesperson Naum Stoilkovski told “Republika” in relation to VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal for interim minister of interior. SDSM has not yet officially informed the party about it...

Macedonia 29.12.19 | 17:09

SDSM rejects VMRO-DPMNE’s proposal for interim interior minister

SDSM believes that the opposition VMRO-DPMNE should nominate another candidate for interim minister of interior and considers that after opening the debate to the public, it is clear that the proposal put forward by the opposition party at last night’s leaders’ meeting is contrary to the...

Macedonia 26.12.19 | 13:42

SDSM hasn’t won a general election in 18 years – and polls show they’re likely to make it over 20

Polls show that the now ruling SDSM party is well on the way to marking 20 years without winning general elections. The party won its last election in 2002, in the aftermath of the 2001 civil war and the wiretapping scandal that likely provoked it. Since then, it’s been all downhill for the left,...

Macedonia 25.12.19 | 12:30

Only SDSM can defend snitches 30 years after the fall of communism

According to VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski, the government’s decision to annul lustration and reimburse people that were lustrated is proof that SDSM is only continuing what is set down in its statute, and that it is a continuation of the Communist Party of Macedonia. Macedonia...

Macedonia 24.12.19 | 15:15

VMRO-DPMNE ahead of SDSM with 7-10 MPs

The latest poll in which VMRO-DPMNE has a significant advantage over SDSM is a realistic picture of developments in Macedonia recently and the disappointment felt by citizens. This is the position of the experts following the survey conducted by Market Vision for “MKD.mk” in the period between...

Macedonia 23.12.19 | 17:59

Citizens’ disappointment in the government growing, the judiciary and the Prime Minister rated very low, VMRO-DPMNE leads convincingly ahead of SDSM

Macedonia is headed in the wrong direction, the judiciary has been rated very low in term of trust among citizens for years, fears of political expression, opposition VMRO-DPMNE is ahead of SDSM, and crime and corruption are at the top of the challenges the new government will have to face. These are...

Macedonia 23.12.19 | 16:36

Outgoing PM Zaev: There is great trust between SDSM and DUI

Outgoing Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Monday that SDSM Executive and Central Board sessions will discuss all political issues on Friday, recapitulate the year, discuss relations with everyone in the coalition, stressing that it has made major decisions for the state. Before mid-February next year,...

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