The parents of the executed teens at Smilkovsko Lake demanded the trials to go faster and for their agony to end. Under moral and criminal responsibility, they went before the court and said the Court was manipulating the fate of their children. They demand that the court announce the identity of the two allegedly unknown persons, whose voices are heard on the recordings of telephone conversations – the newspaper “Independent” reported. They also insist on establishing the responsibility of the five DUI officials, who are openly alleg…
The Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia, without opposition and by breaking Parliament procedures forcefully voted in the Language Law. No one saw the voting, but it doesn’t quite matter because this is an unlawful Parliament. Xhaferi and DUI carefully selected March 14 as the date the illegal law must be passed because on March 14th 2001 begun the NATO sponsored UCK attack on Tetovo. Lawmakers from the opposition tried to stop voting in the law and to ask for a procedural address, but UCK’s Talat Xhaferi interrupted the session…
The session for discussing the law on languages was postponed for unknown reasons. Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi confirmed to Makfax that the session was postponed and blamed the parties. "Ask the parties why the session has been postponed," Xhaferi said in a telephone conversation about Makfax. "So I waited, I was not in a café," Xhaferi added. The coordinator of the VMRO-DPMNE Parliamentary Group, Dragan Danev, said they did not know why the session was postponed, while the SDSM coordinator Tomislav …
The opposition DPMNE submitted amendments to the Law on the Use of Languages, but the same amendments ended up in the trash after SDSM and DUI officials instructed their secretaries to dump them outside. The amendments, as announced by the party, are aimed at harmonizing the law with the Constitution of the state. The deadline for submitting the amendments expired at 4 pm, and immediately after the amendments were found in the thrash. Grce Gjorgjievski, member of the DPMNE’s EC at today’s press conference noted that the submitt…
Macedonia’s illegitimate Parliament speaker Talat Xhaferi in an interview with AlSat admitted himself, Zaev, Oliver Spasovski, Zijadin Sela and Ali Ahmeti held a meeting on April 24th in which their activities for the 27th were discussed. The illegitimate Parliament speaker went on to say that they knew there would be people storming Parliament, hence it was decided Ali Ahmeti not to be present inside Parliament. “We knew people will enter Parliament. I met with Zaev, Spasovski, Sela and Ahmeti to discuss our steps for the 27th. I…
The chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs, Artan Grubi, postponed tomorrow’s committee session, where they were meant to discuss the draft law on the use of languages at the second reading, said the Commission. The statement did not explain the reason for the cancellation of the session, which was due to take place on November 22nd – the Day of the Albanian Alphabet. As for the date when the session will be held, it will be additionally announced. The postponement of the session comes a day after EU Commiss…
The State Election Commission announced on its website the final results of the local elections which were held on Sunday, October 15th, and the mandates of the mayors who won the mayoral seats in the first round, out of 80 municipalities in Macedonia and the City of Skopje. According to the results, the mayoral candidates of the coalition led by SDSM in the first round won in 37 municipalities, and the party also won the mayor’s seat in the City of Skopje. Meanwhile, VMRO-DPMNE, won three mayoral seats, DUI won two mayoral seats in t…
Although there was an initial deal among the parties to hold municipal election, it could all go stale. The parliamentary majority rejected VMRO-DPMNE's proposal to schedule the local election ugently. This raised a dilemma on whether SDSM, DUI and Alliance for Albanians want to go on municipal election or are afraid to face the citizens. As things are looking, the municipal ballots are only in favor of VMRO-DPMNE and BESA. The Albanian opposition has won more support in its voting mass, particularly after it said it will not part…
With 2 mandates more than the others, VMRO-DPMNE has emerged as the winner of the early parliamentary elections in Macedonia. After a delay of almost a day, the State Election Commission came out with the initial official results, according to which VMRO-DPMNE has attained 51 mandates, while SDSM - 49. Basically, the SEC just confirmed its website data - showing the parties' vote count. So in line with the data, VMRO-DPMNE won 453,490 votes, SDSM - 436,604 votes. According to SEC, DUI attained 10 mandates, BESA-5, the Alli…
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