NEWS OF THE DAY: Zaev submits to Parliament proposed composition of the new government and its program
SDSM President Zoran Zaev today at 11.00 am submitted the proposal for the composition of the new government and the program for its work.
“Today I have submitted to Parliament a proposal for the composition of the new government of the Republic of North Macedonia and a program for its work. At the elections, the citizens confirmed their direction and position that today we are translating into specific cadre and program. Macedonian citizens will receive a responsible government that will guarantee continuity in realizing the strategic priorities, NATO membership, EU negotiations, good neighbourly relations… Today, as PM-designate, I have submitted to Parliament a proposal for a government that is prepared to work for a full 4-year mandate. Together with me are 19 ministers with whom we commit to work even harder and better”, said Zaev.
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Zoran Zaev highlighted that less numbered ethnic communities such as the Turks, Roma, Bosniacks, Serbs, Vlachs and etc., will be represented in all institutions, that is, there will be deputy ministers, state secretaries, directors, heads of big and serious institutions…
DUI council member in the Municipality of Ohrid, Nefi Useini, from this morning is in prison in Ohrid together with his brother, after the Public Prosecutor’s Office imposed an 8-day detention measure for them, for the attack against Spiro Topalkoski, confirmed the MOI for CIVIL Media.
The new school year will definitely start one month later, on October 1, due to the coronavirus pandemic. PM-designate Zoran Zaev at today’s press conference, after
submitting the proposal for a new government to the Parliament, announced such a solution, which the technical government led by Oliver Spasovski had adopted in the meanwhile.
Kumanovo is becoming a headquarters of one of the most important regional initiatives, the South-Eastern Europe Brigade, and in the next six years this will be the place where this Brigade will be located as the main part of the initiative that started 22 years ago in Skopje, and in which as a state we learned the first lessons for development of joint defence capacities.
This was pointed out by Minister of Defence Radmila Sekerinska, who today, ahead of tonight’s ceremony, visited the facility in which the Command of the South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) will be stationed until 2026, formed with an agreement signed in Skopje in 1998.
The trial for the organizers of the events that took place on April 27 in the Parliament, will continue on September 4, with the hearing of witnesses proposed by the Defence of former Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanovski.
The court case on the five-time murder at the Smilkovsko Lake in April 2012, known as “Monster”, today continued in the Criminal Court Skopje.
The Network for Protection against Discrimination demands from Parliament for the election of the Ombudsman to be one of the priorities of the new parliamentary composition, for it to be conducted in a transparent and fair process of selection of candidates, free from influence of political parties and for a competent and appropriate candidate to be elected.
А. Petrovska
Translation: N. Cvetkovska
