Parliament
The Parliament of Republic of Macedonia today did not take away the mandate of VMRO-DPMNE MP, Nikola Gruevski. With 58 votes “for” and 29 votes “against”, the Parliament today decided not to take away the parliamentary mandate of Nikola Gruevski. Such a decision is voted with a two-thirds majority.
“For” the proposal of the Committee on Rules of Procedures and Mandatory and Immunity Issues were 58 MPs, while 27 were against.
The Parliamentary Committee, with a majority votes, on Wednesday recommended for Gruevski’s parliamentary mandate to be taken away because of his two-year prison sentence for the procurement of the luxury Mercedes in the SPO case “Tank”.
The parliamentary majority did not accept the request of the coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary group, Nikola Micevski, for the draft – law on amnesty for people accused, suspected and convicted for the events in the Parliament on April 27 to be part of the agenda of today’s 65th session.
Special Prosecutor’s Office
The SPO with a new investigation “Empire”, in cooperation with the MOI, today carried out 12 searches and five suspects were detained, who will be brought before a pretrial judge and for whom measures will be requested to ensure attendance.
Following a thorough pre-trial procedure, in which a dozen cases that were previously conducted by the competent public prosecutions, and now taken over by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, today an investigation was opened under the code name “Empire” against Jordan Kamchev, Sasho Mijalkov, Nenad Josifovic, Cvetan Pandeseski, Ratka Kunoska Kamcheva, Hristina Kamcheva Stojceska, Zorica Arsovska, Liljana Gajdoska, Vladislav Stajkovic, Todor Mircevski, Dejan Janev, Vance Mijalchev and Jovanche Taskovski, suspected for criminal offenses such as criminal association, damage or privilege of creditors, abuse of office, fraud and money laundering and other proceeds of crime.
Debate
Today a panel discussion was held “How to reduce discrimination, stereotype of the Roma in the media, social networks and mechanism for greater visibility of the Roma problem in the Macedonian media”, in the organization of the Educational Media Development Center “24Vakti”, with the support of the European Union.
Dehran Muratov from CIVIL – Center for Freedom, through concrete examples showed that the Roma are always put in a negative context, regardless of whether it is about crime, murder, thefts, homelessness, begging, and very rarely or never in a positive context. Dehran spoke about the classic example of discrimination, through the status of Irena Ristic, for whom he wrote two columns directly addressing her. He is decisive that if one Roma is guilty for something, that it does not mean that the entire Roma community should bear the consequences.
D. Tahiri
