NEWS OF THE DAY: Parliamentary questions, polemics
The Parliament today held the 124th session, on the agenda of which are parliamentary questions. This is the last session this year for parliamentary questions.
On June 1, 2017, the public debt was 48.6 percent of GDP, and now it’s 47.7 percent. It has decreased by 0.9 percent. Unlike this decrease, in the period 2006-2017, during the time of VMRO-DPMNE, the debt had increased from 20 to 48.6 percent. Loans kept piling up, 28 percent of GDP, for weeping willows, museums, monuments, for unproductive expenditures, said today Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, replying to parliamentary questions.
The essence of policies directly impacts citizens who are our voters. I am convinced that I will receive a new mandate for prime minister because the policies we have led are focused on the state, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev at today’s parliamentary session dedicated to parliamentary questions.
He outlines that the citizens are aware that if VMRO-DPMNE returns to power, there will be new confrontations at home through inter-ethnic relations and new arguments with Greece and Bulgaria.
– The fact that there are zero Albanians that will vote for you, which all polls show, is proof of this. The citizens know what that risk means. The second thing is that there will immediately be quarrels with Mitsotakis and Borisov, a new veto, new bitterness, getting stuck in the mud again and standing in one place, stressed Zaev.
Xhaferi: The government and the opposition have agreed to unblock the 123rd parliamentary session
The ruling majority and the opposition of VMRO-DPMNE have reached an agreement for all law proposals included in the 123rd parliamentary session to be adopted, which are tied to application as of January 1, stated today the President of Parliament, Talat Xhaferi, at the regular monthly meeting with parliamentary reporters.
Opposition leaders until yesterday afternoon with long speeches and replies almost blocked this session as well.
Xhaferi did not specify how the government and the opposition agreed on voting in regards to these laws and referrals of the party leaders.
On Saturday a meeting between Zaev and Mickoski for a technical government
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Saturday at 5.00 pm will hold a meeting in the Government with the leader of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski.
According to government sources, Zaev and Mickoski will have consultations on the technical government.
According to the law, the opposition has to attend the consultation on the proposal for interior minister and for it to be accepted by the government (the two biggest parties).
FLASH NEWS
Enforcement agents protest against new fees – Enforcement agents dissatisfied from the new fees proposed by the Ministry of Justice that anticipate a reduction from 1000 to 300 euros in the reimbursement they are entitled to when enforcing monetary claims from citizens, today are protesting by stopping their work.
Osmani: The Law on Languages will not be revised – Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs Bujar Osmani stated that the Law on Languages will not be revised and that the recommendations of the Venice Commission refer to the lack of capacities in the institutions for its full implementation.
Judicial Council dismissed Judge Vladimir Pancevski– The Republic Judicial Council dismissed former President of the Skopje Criminal Court Vladimir Pancevski from his office, confirmed the Judicial Council for MIA. Pancevski is also accused of abuse of office for the distribution of cases through the AKMIS system, but the trial has still not started since it has been postponed several times.
Witness in “Titanic” case: I have donated funds to VMRO-DPMNE several times– At today’s hearing for the case of election irregularities “Titanic”, a witness, who in 2011 worked as an advisor in a branch office of the Ministry of Finance in Kocani, was questioned as to how he donated funds to VMRO-DPMNE’s political campaign in 2011.
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OPINION
“I usually don’t engage in commenting pre-election polls. Not only because a person doesn’t know anymore which party interest stands behind a poll, but also because in the last decade it has been confirmed, at the global level, that one cannot trust election-referendum polls – in responding to such type of public opinion survey, people have started lying in such massive numbers that the results have become irrelevant for conducting a grounded political analysis or, God forbid, a serious prognosis”, writes Ordanoski in today’s column “Zaev would win, but so what”.
“A new lustration is needed. From the beginning. Certainly, first justice for the sufferers of the previous one. First an individual, family, political, civil and even material satisfaction for the sufferers of the recent party lustration”, writes Zoran Ivanov in today’s column “With new people in a new lustration”.
М. Ivanovska
In cooperation with Dehran Muratov, Angela Petrovska, Bibe Jordanovska, Saso Ordanoski and Zoran Ivanov
Translation: N.Cvetkovska
