NEWS OF THE DAY: The country raises level of protection against COVID-19
Avoiding travel to critical regions of northern Italy if there is no urgent need, while travellers coming from there will be under reinforced health control at border crossings, and placed in isolation in a medical facility if required. The state has raised the level of protection and prevention against the coronavirus Covid-19, especially after it has spread in the Italian regions of Lombardia, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna, where some 23.000 citizens of North Macedonia reside. For now, according to our diplomatic and consular missions in Italy, there are no Macedonian citizens with coronavirus.
Still, all travellers who will be arriving to our country from the critical regions in northern Italy will be thoroughly interviewed and checked, and tested if necessary. They will be directed to only a few border crossings – Bogorodica, Blace, Deve Bair, Tabanovce and Kafasan, with the purpose of having the control as concentrated as possible.
The public should not fall for fake news and panic unnecessarily. The health system is prepared and all capacities of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases are prepared, as well as of the three infectious wards in Stip, Veles and Gostivar, stated today Minister of Health Venko Filipce.
He urged for travellers coming from the critical regions to abide by the recommendations in the guidelines, that is, if they experience any of the symptoms, not to go to the health institutions, but to call the telephone numbers of the Institute for Public Health.
– In order for them not to go the health institutions, those travellers who at the moment have no symptoms, but could be in an incubation period, and who might show symptoms after a few days, need to call one of the telephone numbers of the local centers for public health and the Institute for public health, so that a properly equipped team can visit them in their homes, said Filipce.
FLASH: When they were in power they defended the judges – today they will protest against the same judges!
Muratov: Those who will be protesting today for “justice”, back then organized a counter-protest, and in front of the building of the Constitutional Court in Skopje even set up tents in order to “defend the court”. The counter-protestors then “spontaneously” gathered in front of the Constitutional Court to defend the judges and to stand in the way of, as they said, “the opposition non-governmental organizations” and the then opposition party of SDSM. POLITICALL OK CORALL: Where is the march for justice leading to?
The campaign for the upcoming parliamentary elections in April has still not started officially, but the two “main” political parties are unofficially leading that battle, who will succeed in convincing the people that they are right and are fighting for “true justice”.
STATEMENT OF THE DAY: Derkoski: There are no provisions for intervention for abuses in the period between the announcement of elections and the start of the election campaign
NOT LESS IMPORTANT:
The deadlines are running for preparing for the early parliamentary elections scheduled for April 12. Tomorrow the deadline starts for collecting signatures of voters for candidates for MPs and for public inspection of the Voters Register.
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Trial for “Transporter” case continues on March 2, when the Prosecutor’s Office is to give the concluding statements.
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Trial for election irregularities, the “Titanic” case, continues on March 5, due to the absence of prosecutor Kiril Bozinovski.
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Efforts for a strong, stable and united Europe in peace through full integration of the Western Balkans in the European Union, were expressed today in Thessaloniki by Foreign Ministers from the region and from EU member states that border with the region, at the high-level conference “From Thessaloniki to Zagreb”, which was held yesterday in the Greek city of Thessaloniki.
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The country is making progress, was assessed at today’s meeting of Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski with Walter Defa, Special Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, appointed directly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, during which the reforms that have been carried out and the determination for visible changes in the area of implementation were welcomed.
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Deputy Prime Minister for economic affairs Mila Carovska considers that the increase of the minimum wage has given the expected results, more specifically, it has stimulated the increase of other salaries, which according to her can be seem in the increase of the average salary in the country.
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VMRO-DPMNE held a protest in front of the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
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Not a single voter will be able to vote at the early parliamentary elections on April 12 without a valid personal document, warned today the President of the State Election Commission, Oliver Derkoski, urging citizens to use all possibilities of the institutions and to obtain personal documents, to register or to change certain data on the Voters Register.
CIVIL ACTIVITIES
Call for CIVIL short-term election observers from across the country
Given the great interest, as well as the opportunities to increase the size of the election monitoring, CIVIL invites all of its members, supporters and participants of seminars on citizen journalism, observers of previous elections, as well as all interested citizens to apply for short-term election observers.
Officials and activists of political parties do not have the right to participate in this call. It is also not allowed for one to be an observer of two organizations at the same time.
In the process of selection of observers, as always, CIVIL’s members and supporters, former observers, as well as those who have participated in seminars on citizen journalism, have an advantage.
FREE ZONE
“Impressive is the very idea of the opposition that with the prolonged victimization of the judiciary, as a main pre-election topic, they can return to power in the country. Obviously, this leadership of VMRO-DPMNE is treating its thousands of voters as hostages to the problems of the party’s headship, has put a gun to their head and is threatening to carry out mass party executions if the radical anti-legal demands are not satisfied”, writes Saso Ordanoski in “Hostage crisis with a happy ending?”.
“With the Prespa Agreement, with the elimination of the obstacle for the integration perspectives, with the constitutional interventions, with the new name, with the registration in the UN, with membership in the Alliance, with the closing of the Framework Agreement, with the agreement with Bulgaria, and finally with the country’s accession to NATO, here are the certain guarantees for an integrated, more secure, unitary Macedonia”, writes Zoran Ivanov in “We will wait a little longer for another such time”.
“I’m not a politician and I don’t have the intention of being one. The sly dogs of the false conscience in a rush of vanity or hidden political ambitions are choosing the wrong way. People like me and I are their wrong target. Of course, unless their story is not part of a bigger, dark plan”, writes Xhabir Deralla in Vanity, evil and understatement are entrance to the sadistic regime”.
“A respected and legitimate president of a political party has a right and obligation to protest for justice. But for justice! Not for abuse, preventing and distorting justice! Before you started protesting, you should have given at least one signal of justice and a the rule of law! I will give one reason as an Albanian, and everyone else as citizens of this country”, writes Arben Zekiri in “Let Mickoski read it before the protest!”
Angela Petrovska
in cooperation with: Dehran Muratov, Маја Ivanovska, Biljana Jordanovska
