Just eight months after the coalition partners SDSM and DUI took office, Macedonia dropped from 66th to 90th position on the corruption index. That’s 24 positions down, which has put the Republic of Macedonia in company of some African countries.
[Source: VMRO-DPMNE’s press-conference, Mihajlo Manevski, date: 22 January 2018]
Today’s statement made by the incumbent Councilor at the City of…
In his first media appearance as the president of VMRO-DPMNE, in the interview conducted by journalists from MTV and four national terrestrial commercial televisions (except Telma), Hristijan Mickoski made not only untruthful, but a statement antithetical to the current laws governing the work of political parties. Speaking about future amendments to the party’s statute, he said:
In the…
The party which throws the accusations about “junta” almost became junta itself. Additionally, regarding the suspects detained on terrorism and jeopardy of the constitutional system charges, nobody in this phase has the right to say that they have been detained only because they love Macedonia and detest Zaev and SDSM…
VMRO-DPMNE asserted yesterday that the state is being…
Nikola Gruevski, an MP and VMRO-DPMNE’s leader, made a public statement on the “Trajectory” case, in which he is the primary defendant, which we assess as manipulative assertion and untruth.
My colleagues and I are accused of something SDSM’s government had been doing in the past and is doing now. I’m talking about the Kozjak hydro power plant, which…
In a statement made for Telma TV station, the president of the Judicial Council of the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Karadjovski, criticized the latest report by Reinhard Priebe’s Senior Experts’ Group, which has dedicated a great deal of the remarks to the functioning of the judiciary in the Republic of Macedonia and the Judicial Council as one of…
In a speech on the foreign investments, Nikola Gruevski gave the following statement, which we consider to be untruthful:
N.G.: …The announced publishing of a kind of officially published state assistance pricelist, or whatever they call it, will result with plenty of lost battles for attracting foreign companies to open new vacancies in Macedonia…
If until recently I…
On his Facebook fan page, the mayor of Karposh Municipality, Stevcho Jakimovski, wrote a statement on government’s refugee policy, which is a part of his support of the Initiative for referendum against building refugee shelter centers in the municipalities in Macedonia. His statement contains several untruthful elements:
Macedonia is not a country that has bombed or has participated in…
Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the following statement on Macedonia’s Minister of Defense Radmila Šekerinska’s interview with the Bloomberg agency (in which she said that the new government is increasing its efforts to join NATO, and that the membership in the military alliance will protect the country from the Russian interference in its…
On 6 August 2017, VMRO-DPMNE’s leader Nikola Gruevski visited the Municipality of Zelenikovo to scan the situation with the raging wildfires. He criticized the current government, emphasizing that it cannot deal with the fires, and used the occasion to state:
It’s been 20 days and they still cannot put out the fires, there’s already a victim in M. Brod,…
The law is definite – SPO has jurisdiction to act with its entire realm until the last day of the mandate – 15 September 2020
On 23 July 2017, the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, through its representative, Bojan Stojanovski, gave a statement containing manipulative and untruthful elements regarding Special Prosecution Office’s (SPO) acting deadline:
Statement: SPO must not position…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…