Tag: taravari
Macedonia 10.11.24 | 20:40

Alliance of Albanians pledges to investigate DUI’s abuses over the past two decades

The Alliance of Albanians met today to map out its plan for activity in the next to years. Party leader and Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari said that the AA will work to achieve zero corruption and zero tolerance for violent extremism. The party will continue to focus on the abuses of power during...

Macedonia 05.11.24 | 23:08

Taravari: It’s absurd to hold early elections five months after the previous election

Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari dismissed the idea for early general elections, after DUI leader Ali Ahmeti endorsed it. The idea was raised by Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski apparently in jest, during a heated exchange with SDSM leader Venko Filipce in the Parliament. It is absurd to hold early...

Macedonia 14.10.24 | 19:16

Taravari: Review found that systemic failures led to the death of baby girl with infection

Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari said that the audit showed that systemic failings led to the death of a small girl from the area of Kumanovo. The family of the 14 month old girl wanted to have her hospitalized with infection, but they were turned back until it was too late. The commission found that...

Macedonia 10.10.24 | 20:31

Taravari expects a law on the ethnic representation in public administration

Healthcare Minister Arben Taravari, who is one of the leading officials of the VLEN coalition, said that the Parliament now must adopt a law on ethnic representation in the public administration, after the Constitutional Court struck down the much criticized regulatory model called “the balancer”. The...

Macedonia 07.10.24 | 22:39

Menduh Thaci confirms that he’s out of the DUI coalition

Menduh Thaci, leader of the Democratic Party of Albanians, confirmed today that he is no longer part of the DUI party led coalition. Thaci snubbed DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti who held a press conference to detail his criticism of the new Government on its 100th day in office, indicating that he may try...

Macedonia 29.09.24 | 17:28

VLEN marks 100 days of the new Government

The VLEN coalition, which is part of the VMRO-DPMNE led ruling coalition, to mark the 100 days of the forming of the Government, with which their rival DUI was sent in the opposition for only the second time since 2002. We are faced with a destructive opposition that is criticizing without arguments...

Macedonia 19.05.24 | 19:58

Taravari corrects earlier statement on the number of seats VLEN expects to hold in the next Government

Gostivar Mayor Arben Taravari, who is one of the leading figures in the VLEN coalition, corrected his previous statement about the share of responsibility that VLEN expects to have in their coming coalition with VMRO-DPMNE. Taravari initially told a Kosovan TV station that VLEN will have the position...

Macedonia 06.05.24 | 19:29

Mickoski meets with likely future coalition partner Taravari

VMRO-DPMNE president Hristijan Mickoski met today with Arben Taravari, the Mayor of Gostivar who was presidential candidate of the opposition Albanian bloc VLEN. The meeting took place in Skopje, at the VLEN party office. It comes days before the crucial general elections and the second round of the...

Macedonia 21.04.24 | 13:38

Taravari calls for cooperation with Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Greece to ward off Serbian influence

Albanian opposition presidential candidate Arben Taravari said that Macedonia needs to work toward a bloc with Bulgaria and Greece, besides Albania and Kosovo, as a way to ward off Serbian influence. Several weeks ago I had a possibility to sit down with a US professor of geostrategy, who explained things...

Economy 16.04.24 | 22:38

Taravari promises to ban gambling and the easy credit industry

VLEN presidential candidate Arben Taravari announced that, after being elected, he will ban gambling and the booming easy credit industry that is rife with fraud. I witnessed the large number of casinos in Struga, as well as the fast credit banks. I see how harmful they are to the economy and the citizens...

Macedonia 10.02.24 | 18:37

Delegates loyal to Ziadin Sela declare that Taravari is no longer leader of the Alliance of Albanians

Delegates of the Alliance of Albanians who are loyal to its former leader Ziadin Sela declared that they have removed Arben Taravari from the position of leader of the party. Sela organized a parallel assembly to remove Taravari, after Taravari announced that he decided to support the bloc of Albanian...

Macedonia 10.02.24 | 13:50

Sekerinska and Taravari welcome Kurti to Skopje, as they try to save their coalition with DUI

The Friedrich Ebert foundation in Skopje organized a conference of social-democratic leaders from the region, which was seized by SDSM to again appeal to the Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti for help in the coming elections. Kurti wants to have his populist VV party join the European socialist organization,...

Macedonia 10.02.24 | 10:14

DUI and SDSM remove two rebellious ministers from the Government

The DUI – SDSM coalition narrowly approved the removal of two disobedient ministers from the Alliance of Albanians, further complicating the work of the interim Government whose only task is to organize the elections. Healthcare Minister Fatmir Mexhiti and Public Administration Minister Azir Aliu...

Macedonia 07.02.24 | 20:20

Rival leaders organize separate assemblies of the Alliance of Albanians, as the stability of the Government is also called into question

With growing infighting in the Alliance of Albanians party, its rival leaders Arben Taravari and Ziadin Sela are convening competing assemblies. Meanwhile, the DUI led Government plans to remove two ministers who support the opposition and replace them with loyalists. Taravari, who is the current party...

Macedonia 05.02.24 | 15:56

Alliance leader Taravari threatened with a Kalasnikov bullet left in front of his home

Mayor of Gostivar and leader of the Alliance of Albanians party Arben Taravari received a death threat today when somebody left a bullet from a Kalasnikov rifle in front of his home. The clear threat comes days after Taravari declared his support for the bloc of opposition Albanian parties who are challenging...

Macedonia 04.02.24 | 20:24

Ziadin Sela tries to take over Taravari’s party to stop it from joining the opposition against DUI and SDSM

Former Alliance of Albanians leader Ziadin Sela held a press conference in the party office in Tetovo today, to denounce leader Arben Taravari, for his decision to join the opposition Albanian parties in the coming elections to defeat the ruling DUI – SDSM coalition. Local media are reporting that...

Macedonia 04.02.24 | 15:54

Kovacevski in a difficult position after a key Albanian partner joined the opposition

SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski did not give more details about the apparent rift in the ruling coalition, where the smallest of the three main coalition partners – Arben Taravari’s Alliance of Albanians – announced that it will join the Albanian opposition parties in the coming elections. Macedonia...

Macedonia 03.02.24 | 20:02

Taravari decided to join the Albanian opposition, will help them in the fight against DUI

Arben Taravari, leader of the Alliance of Albanians party, today announced that he has decided to side with the opposition Albanian parties, against the coalition of DUI and SDSM. This is the result of weeks of negotiations and pressure exerted on Taravari, whose party joined the SDSM-DUI coalition a...

Macedonia 01.02.24 | 22:43

Turmoil in the Albanian bloc as the opposition parties prepare to challenge DUI

The Alliance of Albanians is in turmoil, as its leader Arben Taravari is oscilating between Tirana and Pristina, between DUI and joining the opposition Albanian bloc. Yesterday Taravari met with Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti, along with the other top leaders of the Albanian opposition – Bilal...

Macedonia 10.08.23 | 18:56

Now Taravari offers to leave the Government, if VMRO votes for the Bulgarian amendments

Alliance of Albanians party leader Arben Taravari offered to leave the DUI – SDSM led Government, if VMRO-DPMNE agrees to vote in favor of the constitutional amendments that Bulgaria requests. The offer mirrors that of Taravari’s parent party DUI, which had her ministers submit conditional...

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