NEWS OF THE DAY: Witnesses have showed that the protests “For United Macedonia” had been directly organized by VMRO-DPMNE
Today Mihail Mladenovski and the official responsible for system and voting in the Parliament, Sashko Kocevski, testified at the Criminal Court hearing for the events that took place on 27 events.
Prosecutor Vilma Ruskoska, following the hearing, stated that Mladenovski’s testimony shows the involvement of a political party, but also of police structures, namely, structures of
the then Administration for Security and Counterintelligence. From Kocevski’s testimony, on the other hand, two aspects can be concluded.
“First, that the protests under the motto “For United Macedonia” had been organized directly by the political party VMRO-DPMNE, and that also it was not so much about whether Zekiri Ibrahimi or someone else should have been given a word, as much as that I was interested, that is I wanted the public and the court to hear that at that moment Trajko Veljanovski could have turned off the screen at the podium when then MP Zekiri Ibrahimi had started singing the Albanian anthem”, explained Ruskoska.
STATEMENT OF THE DAY
Thaci: It is very important to have elections
The President of the Democratic Party of the Albanians (DPA) Menduh Thaci thinks that there should be elections in June. At today’s press conference he outlined that the elections are important for the economy to recover in the next period.
“I think that after the Eid al-Fitr holiday (note: May 24), we should have elections after 21, 22 days. It’s very important to have elections because in addition to this battle with the virus, another major battle awaits us, a battle for economic recovery of our people”, considers Thaci.
WITHOUT FILTER: Who is (not) demanding elections?
Ahead of the great decision for setting a date for the early parliamentary elections, Xhabir Deralla reminds who is demanding elections, but is constantly postponing them…
STATE OF EMERGENCY
Today the Institute for Public Health registered 64 recovered patients, as follows by cities: Skopje 17, Kumanovo 9, Prilep 12, Tetovo 3, Struga 12, Ohrid 9, Gostivar 1 and Kicevo 1.
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In the past 24 hours a total 145 tests have been made and 22 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in: Skopje-13, Prilep-2 and Tetovo-7. So far a total of 19.241 COVID-19 tests have been made in the country.
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The total number of COVID-19 diagnosed patients in our country from the beginning of the epidemic until now is 1.664, the number of recovered patients is 1.200, 91 patients have died, and currently the number of active cases in the country is 373.
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The Commission for Infectious Diseases has still not made a decision on easing the measures despite the announcements.
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The EU is sending new stocks of FFP2 masks to North Macedonia and Montenegro today, from the EU’s reserve of medical protective equipment.
FLASH NEWS
To take advantage of the easing of the coronavirus and the stabilization of the pandemic and to have elections in mid-June, is the position of the political party presidents of the SDSM led coalition “We Can”, that was reached a yesterday’s meeting at the headquarters of the party. The position will be presented at the leaders’ meeting that will be held tomorrow with President Stevo Pendarovski.
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Opposition party VMRO-DPMNE on the other hand, still thinks that the elections are not the first priority at the moment. The President of the party, Hristijan Mickoski, stated that they are for elections this summer, but for elections that won’t endanger the lives of the citizens. The first and basic priority for VMRO-DPMNE, he says, is the health of the citizens, and only then can there be discussions on setting a date for the elections that will enable fair and democratic presenting of the political platform.
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“We are not for postponement, but for elections at a real time because we are all aware that this entire process is complicated in a situation when Parliament has been dissolved, when the government is temporary and we have said that health experts should give their position on
the conditions for holding elections. There are institutions that are competent to say that, and we are ready as a political party”, stated Teuta Arifi for Morning Briefing.
CIVIL ACTIVITIES Rejection, condemnation and demand for apology from Ljupco Zlatev’s portal
With indignation and strong condemnation, we reject the insinuations, lies, slanders and hidden hate speech in the text „(AFFAIR) BURROW FOR PROPAGANDA (2): Represents himself as a non-governmental activist, and works for SDSM!”, published on Ljupco Zlatev’s portal lider.com.mk on May 9, 2020.
No need for additional explaining, but rather we can just conclude that this is an example of what is not journalism.
We demand an apology from lider.com.mk and from all those who have published this text.
