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Neither every Macedonian household is indebted with “additional 1000 euros”, nor is Macedonia the most corrupt country in Europe

01/05/2018 at 10:09 Comment

Hristijan Mickoski: understated and incorrect statement.

The main issue is that they do nothing. They do not work. The image about Macedonia is not as pink as it seems from the comfortable armchairs in the building on “Ilindenska”, but the real image is out there, among the citizens who live their day to day lives, the same ones who were indebted with additional 455 million…

Manevski has mixed up the dates: When VMRO-DPMNE was in power, Macedonia’s corruption perceptions index deteriorated!

Владимир Петрески

29/01/2018 at 13:42 Comment

When did Macedonia’s corruption rank become lower Mr. Manevski? Photo: VMRO-DPMNE

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…

Regardless of what Mickoski says, a party statute must define the procedure for electing party’s president

Владимир Петрески

11/01/2018 at 17:43 Comment

Hristijan Mickoski – what should a party statute be comprised of? Photo: Screenshot

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…

Not junta, but a legitimate government!

Тео Блажевски

21/12/2017 at 10:02 Comment

The opposition party would have almost become a junta, multiple analyses have found. Photo: VMRO-DPMNE’s website

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…

Gruevski is accused of graft, not for annex to agreement

Тео Блажевски

16/12/2017 at 23:30 Comment

The difference between what Gruevski says and what the SPO say is immense. Photo: VMRO-DPMNE’s website

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…

Priebe’s report brims with arguments

Југослава Дуковска

28/09/2017 at 15:58 Comment

The president of the Judicial Council of the RM, Karadjovski, believes that Priebe’s report has political motives. Photo: Print screen

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…

Every denar from the “public” money must be public

Тео Блажевски

07/09/2017 at 17:42 Comment

Why fear openness? Photo: VMRO-DPMNE, website

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…

Nobody asks Jakimovski to shelter 5000 refugees

Тео Блажевски

26/08/2017 at 09:54 Comment

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…

The accusations of Russian interference in Macedonia are not unjustified

Оливера Војновска

20/08/2017 at 00:47 Comment

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…

Gruevski is mistaken, the fires in Makedonski Brod didn’t claim a victim

Ана Анастасовска

11/08/2017 at 19:12 Comment

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,…

SPO has mandate both for investigations and indictments until 2020

Тео Блажевски

04/08/2017 at 22:54 Comment

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…

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

Оливера Војновска

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…