Tag: sdsm
Macedonia 11.01.22 | 12:52

Silegov broke with Kovacevski over the new cabinet

“Sloboden Pecat” reports that a the biggest public break with the proposed new cabinet came from former Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov, who was stood up for his desired post of Transportation Minister. During the meeting of the SDSM party boards yesterday, it was decided that current Minister Blagoj...
Macedonia 10.01.22 | 12:15

SDSM plans meeting to finalize its candidates for Government departments

The SDSM party is set to hold meetings of its Central and Executive Boards this afternoon to decide on the candidates for the Government its new leader Dimitar Kovacevski is trying to put in place. SDSM is trying to keep in place its coalition with DUI and a host of smaller Albanian and client parties,...
Macedonia 04.01.22 | 15:40

SDSM is violating the law on public education

New SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski is violating the law on high education with his decision to appoint deans from public faculties to the Executive Board of the SDSM party, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski. The opposition party informs that Ana Daneva Markova, pro-dean of the Medical...
Macedonia 03.01.22 | 21:24

Top SDSM party officials are violating the law on university education

PressingTV reports that another new member of the Executive Board of the ruling SDSM party is violating the rule of non-interference between political positions and holding high office in the public university system. Ana Daneva, pro-dean of the Medical Faculty in Skopje, was named to the Executive Board...
Macedonia 01.01.22 | 21:47

Mickoski: SDSM is not a factor in the Government, DUI governs Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE leader, Hristijan Mickoski commented Saturday in an interview with TV Alfa about the role that DUI will have in the coming period in the government of Dimitar Kovacevski. They are sending a message that they are a factor, SDSM is not a factor in the Government. Now Zaev’s pawn, Kovacevski,...
Macedonia 29.12.21 | 11:04

People like Silegov and Bogoev are not what you expect to find in a clean Government, Dutch expert notes

Dutch expert on the Balkans Hans van den Berg writes that the new line-up of the SDSM party is not what you would expect in a Government that fights corruption. In several tweets, Van den Berg focuses on the appointment of former Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov to the Executive Board of SDSM, and likely to...
Macedonia 28.12.21 | 13:04

New officials in SDSM but a lot of old baggage

Even as SDSM is trying to present its new party leadership as a clean break and a group of fresh faces, they carry tremendous baggage, both from the Zaev era, and from the previous period of Branko Crvenkovski. New party leader Kovacevski removed many of Zaev’s top officials from the party leadership,...
Macedonia 28.12.21 | 10:52

Kovacevski removes most top Zaev loyalists from the SDSM party leadership

Newly appointed SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski made a clean sweep of party officials yesterday, removing numerous Zaev appointees and adding people from the Branko Crvenkovski led wing of the party, which broke with Zaev over the past year. Kovacevski is now hoping to receive the mandate to form...
Macedonia 27.12.21 | 13:18

Oliver Spasovski resigned as Vice President of SDSM

Oliver Spasovski resigned as Vice President of the SDSM party. The Interior Minister has been one of Zaev’s most loyal lieutenants and today he briefed the press that he will not remain in the leadership under Dimitar Kovacevski. The Central Board of SDSM meets this evening and Kovacevski is expected...
Macedonia 27.12.21 | 09:20

Stefan Bogoev expected to be named one of the Vice Presidents of SDSM

Stefan Bogoev, the former Mayor of Karpos, is also mentioned as a possible new Vice President of the SDSM party. New party leader Dimitar Kovacevski is set to nominate the new leadership of the party this evening. One initial leak had a list of unknown party officials as the likely Vice Presidents. Dimitar...
Macedonia 26.12.21 | 17:05

One of Branko Crvenkovski’s top men expected to return to SDSM

Telma TV reports that a former high SDSM party official Igor Ivanovski – Shema is making a comeback to the party. Ivanovski will lead a newly formed Council for creation and implementation of policies. Ivanovski is a once prominent member of the party faction led by Branko Crvenkovski. His return...
Macedonia 25.12.21 | 11:10

Dimitar Kovacevski plans to appoint little known SDSM officials as Vice Presidents of the party

While he himself is a little known former telecom executive, new SDSM party leader Dimitar Kovacevski is tapping even less known party officials as the next Vice Presidents of the party. Of the four Vice Presidents appointed by Zaev just 10 months ago, only Fatmir Bytiqi is expected to remain in this...
Macedonia 24.12.21 | 19:23

Former SDSM official turned Zaev critic announces that he will form a new party

Former SDSM party official Petar Atanasov announced that he will initiate the creation of a new political party. Atanasov was part of Zaev’s first Government, as Deputy Education Minister, and was elected to Parliament, but quickly had a falling out with Zaev and became his vocal critic. Now is...
Macedonia 24.12.21 | 19:17

Kovacevski will begin making personnel changes in SDSM on Monday

The Central Board of the SDSM party will meet on Monday under the new party leader Dimitar Kovacevski to discuss personnel changes. So far, it’s only clear that former spy chief Mile Zecevic will be named as the Secretary General of the party, but there are numerous other posts to be filled, where...
Macedonia 23.12.21 | 17:23

SDSM and DUI trade departments – an ethnic Albanian Minister will be in charge of rewriting Macedonian history books

TV24 reports that SDSM and DUI plan to swap two departments in what they hope will be their new Government. DUI won the Agriculture Ministry as part of the major concessions given to the Alternative party, which was desperately needed to prop up the Government, and got three departments in exchange for...
Macedonia 23.12.21 | 14:22

Will SDSM be divided: Is the formation of a new party being prepared?

These days, information appeared in the public that activities have been undertaken to form a new party by dissatisfied members and supporters of SDSM. The former Deputy Minister of Education in the previous SDSM government, Petar Atanasov, is mentioned as one of the potential initiators of a new party. He...
Macedonia 22.12.21 | 11:35

VMRO-DPMNE: SDSM to answer why there are so many fires in state institutions

VMRO-DPMNE asks the ruling SDSM through the media, whether the reason for the frequent fires in buildings housing state institutions is destruction of documentation? This morning, a fourth fire broke out in a state institution. The fire in the PE “Streets and Roads” comes after a series of...
Macedonia 20.12.21 | 23:37

SDSM intends to give the Defense Ministry to DUI

24 Info reports that SDSM will give away the Defense Ministry in the next Government to the DUI party. Defense Minister Radmila Sekerinska announced that she is leaving the Government, along with several other key ministers, who do not intend to remain after Zaev resigns, likely before the end of the...
Macedonia 14.12.21 | 14:50

LDP intends to remain in the SDSM coalition

The Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) said it will remain part of the SDSM coalition and will support the new SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski to become Prime Minister. LDP leader Goran Milevski and other LDP officials met with Kovacevski, Zoran Zaev and SDSM officials, to see whether the coalition will remain...
Macedonia 12.12.21 | 23:13

SDSM members elect Dimitar Kovacevski to replace Zoran Zaev as party leader

SDSM party members elected Dimitar Kovacevski to be the next party leader, replacing Zoran Zaev. A total of 44,406 party members voted in the elections today – which is about two thirds of the votes cast for Zaev in the elections in March. Kovacevski won 37,649 votes, owing to the endorsement from...
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