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It promised 20, but now SDSM’s new government will have 25 ministers

07/06/2017 at 16:02 Comment

Radmila Shekerinska speaking in the debate “We create accountable government”. Photo: SDSM’s website

In October 2015, the vice president of SDSM, Radmila Shekerinska speaking in the debate “We create accountable government” among other things, gave the following statement: Macedonia is unequivocally a negative record holder, 26 Ministers – even if there are two million (people, our remark), but there aren’t, it turns out that there is one minister for every 81.000 people.…

The repeal of the unsuccessful measure for external examination is not populism

Југослава Дуковска

31/05/2017 at 14:01 Comment

External testing – guarding the untenable. Photo: Screenshot

The Deputy Minister of Education in the Interim Government, Spiro Ristovski, from VMRO-DPMNE, reacted to the announcement of the new parliamentary majority to repeal in a summary proceeding the external examination for the elementary and high school pupils and tried to present this step as populistic, anti-reform, as well as detrimental to the students and their future. With…

Ivanov talks about economic growth that is simply nonexistent

Владимир Петрески

24/04/2017 at 13:06 Comment

Ivanov: How high is Macedonia’s economic growth? Photo: Screenshot

Not only Macedonia didn’t have the highest economic growth rates in 2009 and 2012 or ranked in the European top achievers, but its economy decreased in these two years in particular Last week, the President Gjogje Ivanov gave an interview for the Croatian national television. Here’s the part of the interview we would like to check in terms…

VMRO-DPMNE does not represent the entire “nation”

Тео Блажевски

17/04/2017 at 07:55 Comment

What nation is Gruevski talking about? Photo: VMRO-DPMNE/website

On 9 April 2017, Nikola Gruevski, leader of VMRO-DPMNE and an MP in the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, gave the following statement, which we assess as untruthful: …I warn him (Zoran Zaev, our remark) not to play with the democracy in the Republic of Macedonia, not to play with the nation, because this country is…

Soros is not on Freedom House’s donor list

Оливера Војновска

13/04/2017 at 20:21 Comment

The Ambassador Aleksandar Nikoloski (VMRO-DPMNE) claims that major and fundamental financier of Freedom House is George Soros. Photo: Print screen

In the “Топ тема на ваша страна” (Top Theme on Your Side) debate show aired on Telma TV station (5 April 2017), the newly appointed Ambassador of the Mission of the Republic of Macedonia to the EU, the former MP from VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikoloski, inter alia stated: It’s a fact that Freedom House is an organization directly funded by…

There is no blackmail for government, there is a blackmail for mandate

Тео Блажевски

12/04/2017 at 14:34 Comment

Somebody’s blackmailing, but who? Photo: Parliament’s website

Statement: …Parties’ leaders imperative should be the implementation of the urgent reform priorities. The European reforms should be the first topic in the parties’ and the MPs’ agendas, not the implementation of a post-election platform created in foreign countries. A platform that jeopardizes the country’s independence, conditions the formation of the parliamentary majority, conditions the formation of the new…

The constitutive session is not the occasion for requesting details on the agreed majority

Тео Блажевски

05/04/2017 at 01:01 Comment

Ilija Dimovski. Photo: VMRO-DPMNE’s web site

From now on, if a party wins 61 seat, it means that it can do whatever it wants. But that’s an example of disrespect of the citizens. It turns out that two leaders, maybe three, maybe four, can lock themselves in a room and reach a parliamentary agreement on the functioning of the parliamentary majority. We don’t request…

Protesting prelate: The fomenting messages of the bishop Agatangel

Оливера Војновска

21/03/2017 at 09:01 Comment

After he requested to “recount” ourselves, he called us to “unite”, but Macedonians only?! Photo: Screenshot

The entire speech of Bishop Agatangel, in which he formally delivered multiple untruths, seems baffling, considering he is a clergyman. His speech is diametrically opposed to the constitutional principles that guarantee the secularity of the state and clearly point out that the religious communities should not interfere with state’s affairs Assessed by: Olivera Vojnovska On 4 March…

The sovereignty might be jeopardized, but only by Ivanov

Тео Блажевски

08/03/2017 at 11:39 Comment

Plenty of words – feeble support. Photo: Website of the Cabinet of the President of RM

Neither the Platform is a “foreign” (dangerous) document, nor the unity, independence and the sovereignty of RM are jeopardized. This could be established by the careful analysis of the terms that Ivanov gives as his explanation why he didn’t entrust the mandate to the one that secured the majority of MPs The President of the Republic of Macedonia,…

Every civil activism is a legitimate way of doing politics

Тео Блажевски

17/01/2017 at 17:10 Comment

Nikola Poposki. Who can do politics? Photo: Friends of Europe/Flickr

When an Italian daily asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs in RM’s government, Nikola Poposki, about the pressures, as he says, that are caused by George Soros’ Foundation in Macedonia in regard to the internal politics, he gave the following untruthful statement: The problem isn’t just the huge amount of money, viewed according to the criteria of Skopje, but…

Wikipedia in Macedonian requests from VMRO-DPMNE not to embellish itself with volunteers’ work

Сашо Спасоски

02/12/2016 at 14:04 Comment

Old stone house in Malo Ilino village, near Demir Hisar, on Wikipedia in Macedonian. Photo: @petrovskyzphotography, Wikimedia Commons

In its Accomplishments Report “ACCOUNTABLE – PROJECTS, MEASURES AND ACTS FOR THE CITIZENS AND STATE!”, presented on March 20 this year, the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE asserts that thanks to its initiatives, the Macedonian chapter of the free encyclopedia Wikipedia is working on new content that is being translated into foreign languages. The team of the Macedonian version of the…

VMRO-DPMNE obstructed everything that was agreed, including the SPO

Тео Блажевски

05/10/2016 at 15:39 Comment

Dimovski Ilija. Photo: VMRO-DPMNE’s website

Numerous journalists, politicians, NGOs, international organizations, foreign diplomatic representatives, ascertained that VMRO-DPMNE obstructed most of the Przhino Agreement provisions. This was the main reason for postponing the elections twice, and everyone (except VMRO-DPMNE) assessed that the conditions for holding elections are not met Right after SPO’s initiative, transposed in legal form for amendment of several laws, among which is…

It is not correct that Janeva must attend a session of а parliamentary committee

Тео Блажевски

30/09/2016 at 16:19 Comment

He quoted plenty of bylaws, but drew a wrong conclusion

The special prosecutor Katica Janeva, can, but does not have to attend a session of а parliamentary committee. This is what all the documents and the two relevant interlocutors we consulted say. Hence, Dimovski’s statement with this assertion is not true On 27 September 2016, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary party group Ilija Dimovski gave the following statement:…

The diplomats have not violated the Vienna Convention

Милена Јосифовска

19/04/2016 at 10:45 Comment

Ivanov used inimical rhetoric towards the international community in the interview. Photo: Screen shot

On 14 April 2016, in the interview given for the Macedonian Radio Television (MRT) which was also attended by journalists and editors from several other TV stations (the quoted excerpt below is a part of the interview broadcasted on “Telma” TV station), the President Gjorgje Ivanov, while criticizing the representatives of the international community that allegedly “are strolling the courts…

Ex-Prime minister’s statements contradictory to the statements of the Prime minister

Тео Блажевски

14/04/2016 at 11:43 Comment

Two simillar statements a year appart, while the midway is forgotten.

VMRO-DPMNE’s president Nikola Gruevski, among other things, stated: This is enough. This crisis must end. There are no endeavors for freedom of media nor for democracy and the fight against corruption behind this crisis, but weakness, fear, frustrations, attempts for identity bribery and toppling the government of the Republic of Macedonia by the opposition, which is lacking ideas and…

MP Ilija Dimovski’s “illustration” of SDSM’s media bill is inaccurate

Владо Ѓорчев

05/02/2016 at 10:33 Comment

VMRO-DPMNE has rejected the media bill proposed by SDSM to the signatories of the Przhino Agreement. According to Ilija Dimovski, member of the VMRO-DPMNE negotiating team, the motion is unconstitutional, uneuropean and unlike anything seen in civilised countries. To illustrate, it would mean that if a Macedonian media outlet or journalist states that Kire Lazarov is a good handball…

Ahmeti: Ramadan precludes June elections

Тео Блажевски

02/02/2016 at 11:50 Comment

Ем недоследно, ем невистинито: Фото - Фејсбук, официјлна страна на Али Ахмети

Ali Ahmeti, Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) leader, included Ramadan and the attendant ceremonial rituals among the reasons why the elections scheduled for April 24 should not be postponed. Addressing DUI’s General Council, a body composed of the party’s senior representatives, on January 31, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE’s coalition partner said: We cannot manage such situations without some institutional…