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VMRO wants elections in November??! | MINA Report

ust when you think VMRO can’t get more lost, here comes MP and one of their senior officials Trajko Slavevski claiming early elections were possible in November! If you look at your calendar, it’s right around the corner, some 40 odd days away.

Later in the interview Slavevski adds elections were possible in the Spring. Then why even mention November and two other dates in December? We just had a Referendum 10 days ago!

With Baily’s Przino agreement which worked out very, very well for the SDSM, The VMRO cretins gave up all Departments in their Government (police, finances, Gruevski left 6 months earlier…), gave the SDSM 100 day window to prepare the field, replace hundreds of policemen and install heads of police in virtually every municipality to better manage their crimes and Election Fraud. It was carefully planned operation that has since extended to what we witnessed in the Referendum – it’s no small thing to stuff 150-200,000 ballots and go on your merry way like nothing happened.



100 days? No Thanks

Now, the VMRO apparently plans on keeping a criminal SDSM administration who committed the largest election fraud in history, and is okay with (very) early elections by ignoring the Przino agreement that their sellout Nikola Todorov signed. SDSM is very nervous about giving VMRO 100 days, for obvious reasons. But the insanity which has become a synonym with VMRO is that the party is also not keen on respecting an agreement that would clearly benefit them. Why?

Why is this caricature Trajko Slavevski against the 100 day time-frame? The agreement itself was absolutely anti constitutional, it is illegal, but it will benefit the party because the tide has turned, they’re the opposition now. In addition, we certainly hope the DPNE are not serious about their plan to push Slavevski as a presidential candidate, he is just not cut out for it.

Slavevski’s interview and throwing around dates like “November” for early elections coincides with a statement by Stoltenberg who out of nowhere claimed Macedonia would join NATO in January. The plantation owner in Washington with its vassals in Brussels, London and Berlin is not giving up on its creation, the Prespa capitulation.

For the DPNE now, the logical thing is to respect the illegal document they signed.

Used condoms Zaev and Spasovski must quit 100 days before early elections are scheduled per the Przino agreement.

If our math is correct, early elections should be held at the end of February considering Zaev will need few weeks to ponder who does he need to give money back to…

 

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Speculations swirl, Parliament won’t vote tomorrow on name change? | MINA Report



PM Baily doesn’t have 2/3 majority in Parliament.

The last and the most desperate attempts to bribe MPs have ended as of this evening, with the last incident recorded in Vevcani where a former VMRO official and businessman was trying to bribe MPs with 2.5m euros in cash – reported journalist Milenko Nedelkovski. The same businessman was visiting MPs in their homes.

2 VMRO MPs have agreed to the cash offers, however at least 2 others within the SDS have stated they would not vote, thus nullifying the traitors within the DPNE. In addition, at least 2 others MPs within the SDS coalition who have kept it quiet all this time will also not vote, one of them is DOM’s Liljana Popovska who also did not vote for the language laws.

We’ve already reported that Gruevski’s cousin and ex DBK head Sasho Mijalkov is heavily involved in attempts to bribe VMRO MPs. This is the deal Mijalkov made with the SPO (they dropped all charges against him last week). In addition, DPNE VP and Kavadarci mayor Mitko Jancev is Zaev’s personal message boy who is delivering the cash and is convincing MPs of the beautiful life they would have if they just sellout their country.

Now speculations have swirled that the scheduled vote will not take place tomorrow, because Zaev simply doesn’t have the votes and is requesting more time from the Plantation owner in Washington to break the spirit of MPs. The SPO is heavily engaged in this as well.

Last night, at midnight, Macedonia’s budget was ‘rebalanced’, in it, no money were allocated for early elections.

 

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Zaev still pushing the "name change"?

FILE PHOTO: A car travels past a Greek border stone and a sign of Republic of Macedonia at the Macedonia-Greece border April 16, 2018. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

October 15, 2018 - Look to Future and Vote for Macedonia name change, PM urges MPs
Look to future and vote for Macedonia name change, PM urges MPs | Reuters

Greece had long blocked neighbor Macedonia’s aspirations to EU and NATO membership over its name, which Athens said implied territorial claims to a Greek province of the same name. But the two countries struck a deal in June under which the ex-Yugoslav republic would become North Macedonia to end a 27-year dispute.

Greece had long blocked neighbor Macedonia’s aspirations to EU and NATO membership over its name, which Athens said implied territorial claims to a Greek province of the same name. But the two countries struck a deal in June under which the ex-Yugoslav republic would become North Macedonia to end a 27-year dispute.

However, a Macedonian referendum on the agreement failed to pass the turnout threshold of 50 percent, leaving it up to the Skopje parliament to settle the issue.

The ruling center-left coalition, which has 72 lawmakers in the 120-seat parliament, needs to secure a two-third majority to pass laws on constitutional changes. The remaining deputies are members of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE, which also supports EU and NATO membership but opposes changing the country name.

Debate can proceed for a maximum of 10 days, after which the vote will take place.

“Let’s show the world that above all of our domestic political misunderstandings and conflicts, we have a joint interest - the future of our country,” Zaev told parliament.

“I call on deputies to think and look into the future, (and consider) whether they want a European Macedonia or isolation, poverty and uncertainty,” Zaev said.

He has said that if his government failed to secure majority to change name of the country, he would call new elections.

Ilija Dimovski of the VMRO-DPMNE said the current parliament lacked the legitimacy to decide on constitutional changes.

“None of the parties discussed the name change in their election campaigns (in 2016),” he said.

The procedure to pass constitutional changes is lengthy and requires several rounds of voting, with the Monday’s debate being the first stage. If Zaev’s coalition secures a two-thirds majority for the changes, the procedure could be completed in mid-January.

Under the deal, Skopje would formally adopt the name of Republic of North Macedonia, replacing Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to join NATO and start the EU accession process.


October 15, 2018 - Greek Coalition ally threatens to quit if Macedonia name deal goes to Parliament
Greek coalition ally threatens to quit if Macedonia name deal goes to parliament | Reuters


FILE PHOTO: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, seen wearing a tie, jokes with Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos before his speech at the parliamentary group of Syriza and Independent Greeks in Athens, Greece, June 22, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas

The leader of a small right-wing party threatened on Monday to pull it out of Greece's governing coalition if a deal settling a row over Macedonia's name comes to parliament, increasing uncertainty in a country that just emerged from bailouts.

Leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Panos Kammenos, leader of the Independent Greeks party, joined forces in 2015 with the stated aim of pulling Greece out of its then-debt crisis and fight corruption that flourished under socialist and conservative rule and pushed Greece to the verge of bankruptcy.

But the new deal Tsipras’s government struck with Macedonia that changes its name to North Macedonia has shattered the coalition’s honeymoon after Greece’s bailout exit in August, refocusing attention on the coalition’s contradictions.

“I won’t vote for this deal if it comes to parliament,” Kammenos, who is defense minister, told state TV ERT after a trip to the United States, where he presented his party’s stance and what he called an alternative scenario, if the deal fails.

“If the parliamentary majority decides a divorce, so be it, there will be one,” he said, adding that his personal relationship with Tsipras remained “harmonious.”

Greek nationalists have opposed the name deal, contending that Macedonia is historically Greek and part of Greek heritage.

Greece maintained for 27 years that Macedonia’s name implied territorial claims to its northern province of the same name, and so blocked Skopje’s path to European Union and NATO membership. The June deal approved by Tsipras removed that obstacle, and has been embraced by both NATO and the EU.

But the deal has been thrown into doubt by the failure of a Macedonian referendum to achieve the minimum turnout needed to uphold the accord. In that light, Kammenos said, the deal is unlikely to come before the Greek parliament for approval.

Greece’s coalition government, whose term ends late next year, is backed by 153 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament. Kammenos’ party holds 7 seats. Tsipras has repeatedly ruled out early elections.

But in an effort to ease fears of a government collapse if the Macedonia deal comes to the Greek parliament for a vote, government officials have said that support from independent and center-left lawmakers has already been secured.

But Kammenos’s comments triggered heated debate, even within Tsipras’ leftist Syriza party. During a weekend meeting of its central committee, members said the partnership was unraveling.

“It’s a big political issue when a government partner says he disagrees to the point of being forced to withdraw his confidence in the government,” senior Syriza official Panos Skourletis said on Monday.

“This is a big political mistake on his (Kammenos) part.”

 

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Is Zaev offering amnesty for April 27?

The Parliament is holding Monday its 61. session on the motion for constitutional revision fled by Government.

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev elaborated the motion, saying the country’s future lies in the hands of the MPs and urging them to vote according to their own will, especially the ones who are reluctant.

“Look to the future, the future of your children. The citizens’ will is for the country to move forward,” said PM Zaev.

According to him, the other option would put the country into isolation and bring back the political trauma from the past 27 years, and especially from the recent period.

The PM said the vote for European future would take the country towards full-fledged NATO and EU membership.

“You should decide whether we gain a lot or lose a lot,” stressed Zaev.

He said partisan divisions should end, sending a message of reconciliation over the April 27 events in Parliament.

“Here is a chance to forgive ourselves,” said the prime minister pointing out on April 27, when he was the first target of those attacks. “Let’s extend our hands,” said Zaev and added that people would not forgive themselves if politicians and MPs did not.

He said the Government was prepared to accept amendments but in the spirit of the Prespa Agreement.

Did Zaev announce an amnesty for the defendants in the events that took place on April 27 in the Parliament, in order to secure a two-thirds majority for the Prespa Agreement?

MPs from all parties take part at the session, also attended by Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov.




PM Baily offers ‘freedom’, cash, removal of his SPO team in exchange for name change | MINA Report

PM Baily’s rep Zoran Zaev admits the SDS has control of the Courts in a Parliament speech, offers “amnesty” to VMRO MPs and other patriots in prison on made up charges in exchange for their votes in Parliament (this was always part of the plan, it is why 50+ people were locked up, to be used as a bargaining chip). For months Zaev continually lied that VMRO MPs were seeking amnesty, only for him to be making the offer.




After Zaev, DUI criminal Artan Grubi asked VMRO MPs to vote, comparing them and their vote to visionaries, to those of Jesus, Mohamed, Isaac Newton, Kopernik, Tesla, Bell, Pitagora. Just when everyone in Parliament thought they can breath a sigh of relief, Grubi continued … Goce Delcev, Pitu Guli, Sandanski, Skenderbeg, Hasan Prishtina, Adem Jashari, Ataturk… causing laughter in Parliament.

Why not mix up albanian terrorists with Macedonian revolutionaries, astronomers, physicists…Grubi’s horrendously idiotic speech lasted for 15 minutes. 70 other MPs sought the right to speak today.

At the moment there is a competition of sorts who is going to come up with the most ridiculous speech in Parliament. We’re quite certain Zaev lead the way, but then Grubi and Tufegdzic took his spot. Tufegdzich is also busy on Facebook as the charades in Parliament continue…



The speeches were meant to buy more time.

Parliament has concluded today’s sessions, a vote for name-change didn’t take place (as predicted yesterday) due to the fact they don’t have the votes. It will continue tomorrow, and the day after… PM Baily needs more time and up the cash offers to MPs.

Today, in an effort to change the name, Baily’s junta offered the following:

– $2.5m to each MP for a vote
– Removal of all madeup charges against everyone
– Removal of unconstitutional SPO

It is not clear why are VMRO MPs even attending this charade in Parliament!




'The idiotic neocon democracy as US legacy'?

U.S. congressmen: Zaev to confirm voters’ will

House Democracy Partnership (HDP) commission of the U.S. House of Representatives has encouraged Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to implement the constitutional revision resulting from the Prespa Agreement, despite the challenges following the referendum, including the open and covert Russian efforts to undermine the agreement.

The commission has sent a letter addressed to PM Zaev, signed by Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Congressman David Price (D-NC), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Democracy Partnership, on behalf of 20 bipartisan members.

The HDP, which works directly with partner countries around the world to support the development of effective, independent, and responsive legislative institutions, congratulate the large majority of ‘Yes’ votes at the recent referendum, saying the U.S. House continues to firmly support the Macedonian citizens in their aspirations to join NATO and EU.

“Democracy does not constitute only free and fair elections but what happens between two election cycles. Now is the time for the world to see the energy of democracy in Macedonia, by confirming the will of the voters to link up with the West,” reads the letter.

The U.S. congressmen say the name dispute with Greece had stood on the path of Euro-Atlantic integration for too long and now is the time to put such rows aside and promote efforts for progress.

The HDP says the U.S. House remains committed to bilateral relations, inspired by the democratic path of Macedonian citizens.

 

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Russians meddle in Macedonia through US State Department

The Russians have continued to undermine Macedonia and to meddle in the country’s internal affairs. In fact, Moscow has become so good at meddling, they are using the unsuspecting US State Department to do their dirty work for them… that’s how good they are.

Moscow has decided to pressure Macedonia’s opposition via a 2nd grade level propaganda and pressure by a GMO yank called Wess Mitchell.

Mitchell urged the opposition party’s leadership to “create space” for its members to reconsider their position “free from threats of violence, retribution, or other forms of coercion.”

Such threats, however, appear to be coming solely from the US-backed government junta. Antonio Miloshoski, a VMRO member of parliament, was subpoenaed as a suspect by the country’s special prosecutor on Tuesday, local media reported. A hearing featuring a “protected witness” was closed to the press, but US and OSCE diplomats were allowed in the courtroom adding more insanity to the political moves by the US Embassy.

In the letter, the only thing missing from Mitchell’s sad and begging-like propaganda is his promise to take Mickoski out for an ice cream.



Needless to say, how do we stop the Russians from continually meddling in Macedonia? For starters, expel 90% of their Embassy staff?


‘Disappointed’ US wants Macedonia to approve name change despite failed referendum

The US State Department has urged the opposition in Macedonia to vote in favor of the name change deal despite the failed referendum, while the government in Skopje is threatening those that don’t with terrorism prosecutions.

In a letter dated Tuesday, assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs Wess Mitchell says that Washington is “disappointed” in the position of the leading opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE.

“We urge you to set aside partisan interests to advance our shared strategic interests and secure a brighter future for your citizens among the European family of nations,” Mitchell says in the letter, whose authenticity was confirmed by the US embassy in Skopje.

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Despite the best efforts of the government and its US and EU backers, the September 30 referendum on the name change failed, with less than 40 percent of the electorate casting their ballots. Even the carefully worded question, focusing on the promised brighter future in the EU and NATO, was not enough to overcome the organized boycott.

Mitchell now urged the opposition party’s leadership to “create space” for its members to reconsider their position “free from threats of violence, retribution, or other forms of coercion.”

Such threats, however, appear to be coming solely from the US-backed government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, who struck the deal with Greece to change the country’s name to North Macedonia back in June. Antonio Miloshoski, a VMRO member of parliament, was subpoenaed as a suspect by the country’s special prosecutor on Tuesday, local media reported. A hearing featuring a “protected witness” was closed to the press, but US and OSCE diplomats were allowed in the courtroom, local media reported.

Several party MPs are being held under house arrest over an incident in April 2017, when VMRO sympathizers stormed the parliament in rage over Zaev appointing an ethnic Albanian nationalist as speaker.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1052057457902669824

Miloshoski claims that Zaev has offered to grant amnesty to those charged with terrorism over the April 27 incident if they vote his way on amending the Constitution, and that this is “proof that he has instrumentalized the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office for political purposes.”

Further fueling speculation that the government is pressuring VMRO members on the name change vote, one MP was released from house arrest on bail.

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Despite the failed referendum, Zaev’s government is struggling to get a two-thirds majority in the 120-member Sobranie required to amend the constitution and rename the country North Macedonia. Under the terms of the deal with Greece, this would remove Athens’ veto on the former Yugoslav republic’s applications to the EU and NATO.

Opponents of the name change have meanwhile criticized Mitchell’s letter as yet another example of the ongoing US meddling into Macedonian affairs, urging the West to respect the will of the people.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1052227262483972096

If the Sobranie fails to adopt the name change, Zaev has said he would immediately call a new election, presumably in hope that the new legislature would be more to his liking.


VMRO will win next elections if they simply Quit Parliament + Ivanov needs to Wake Up

The Macedonian people have spoken. They completely delegitimized an already illegitimate Government during the referendum on September 30th.

Ironically, the only people giving any sort of legitimacy to Baily’s criminal junta are the opposition by attending ludicrous charades in Parliament.

SDS’ attempt to change the name via a referendum and then in Parliament despite not having the legitimacy to do it, has failed. Early elections now are simply a must. The only question that many Macedonians today are asking is what is the comatose opposition doing in Parliament? What are they attending, what are they debating, who are they having debates with?

If they DPNE keeps to their word and will not support a name change, simply Quit Parliament. Why is Zaev’s stay in power needlessly prolonged?

Zaev may not change the name, but he has certainly bankrupted the country. It’s the Murtino gift that keeps on giving. In less than a year, Macedonia was indebted for over 1.8 Billion euros, today for additional 53m euros. Why is the opposition prolonging this misery?

Our sources proved correct. Zaev will be debating the name change in the coming days, or until the day they can bribe 9 MPs with millions of dollars. A new debate is scheduled for tomorrow.

If the DPNE wants any chance to get an overwhelming election win, they must quit Parliament. The sooner they quit, the bigger their victory will be.

Everything else will only anger people further.

Time for Ivanov to Wake Up

Macedonia’s sleeping president, Gjorgje Ivanov has the right to revoke, yes, revoke the Government mandate given to Zaev, a result of hundreds of criminal and unconstitutional acts by the Government.

At this point, after Zaev has brought the country in a subordinate position to another country (in itself a major criminal act), president Ivanov needs to protect the legal framework (Article 84-1) and the Constitution itself which has been placed in a blender by Baily’s criminal junta.

Ivanov also bears criminal responsibility if he lets these charades continue, and considering he is a Constitutional scholar, he is fully aware of this fact.

Revoke Zaev’s Government mandate.

In another news, former VMRO culture minister Elizabeta Kancevska Milevska is very interested in $2.5m offered by Jess Baily. During her days as Minister she was known for living the high life, big fan of crisscrossing Paris and Rome, enjoys Prada, Versace… she and Rangelova have certainly taken a bite…




Xhaferi did not allow opposition leader Mickoski to address Parliament

VMRO-DPMNE MP group coordinator Dragan Danev asked Tuesday Speaker Talat Xhaferi to allow party leader Hristijan Mickoski to address the Parliament.

Speaker Xhaferi said the Parliament’s Rules of Procedures do not allow for such an option.

“My will has nothing to do with this. There is no grounds on which I would invite Hristijan Mickoski to take part in the Parliament’s activities,” said Xhaferi.


Unable to convict them, Zaev’s judge removes and fines attorneys of all patriots

The trial chamber led by Judge Dobrila Kacarska fined and removed from the courtroom all defendants’ lawyers for the events in the Assembly on April 27, reported Republika. Each attorney was fined 1,000 euros.

Lawyers were sanctioned after complaining about the conditions in which the interrogation of the protected Witness C1 took place in the old building of the Criminal Court where he was transferred due to technical obstacles in the new court building.

Lawyer Elenco Milovanov, after exiting the court, said that the defenders had asked the Court for the ability to write down statements from the endangered witness because his testimony could not be heard by anyone inside. They were not allowed, after which the lawyers rebelled, and therefore they were punished and removed from the Courtroom.

According to the explanation of Zvonko Davidovic, lawyer of one of the defendants, Kacarska immediately removed them from the Courtroom as soon one spoke out saying no one could here the protected witness.

According to Davidovic, Kacarska had punished all 50 attorneys for interfering with the course of the trial, which, according to them, had nothing to do with interference, instead a simple complaint that they could neither hear the witness nor take notes standing up.

Judge Kacarska stated in the minutes that today they are deprived of the right to represent the defenders in the process and that the defendants will be appointed new defense lawyers after official duty.

The defendants for “April 27” are in court, but since the public was previously excluded from today’s testimony of the protected witness, it is not known how the process will continue.

 

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Prof. Vankovska's answer to the letter:

https://www.facebook.com/biljana.vankovska/posts/10216934138088640

Prof Vasilevska: Zaev will go to jail whether today or tomorrow….



Zoran Zaev will go to jail for the things he does and with a legitimate Macedonian judiciary. Zaev holds hostages such as Boris Damovski, Igor Durlovski, Vlado Jovanovski, Bogdan Ilievski, holds MPs in prison with an active parliamentary mandate, offering to trade their lives and those of their families in bazaar-like fashion – this will not go unpunished, says professor Ivanka Vasilevska, in her guest appearance on the show Only Truth on Kanal 5.

Zaev needs to admit their own involvement on April 27, this was a scenario worked out by the SDS, it is absurd to hold civilians and MPs in jail 7 months after the incident, on terrorism charges simply because they sang the national anthem in Parliament.


MP Vladanka Avirovik to trade her son’s jail sentence for vote in Parliament



The Socialist Party of Macedonia’s deputy Vladanka Avirovik will vote for constitutional changes that will change the constitutional name in order to give a chance to the EU and NATO membership process, Makfax reports from sources close to the MP.

She will not give up the right to discussion in the Parliament, as the VMRO-DPMNE parliamentary group did earlier today. She is expected to explain her position during the day.

She is expected to explain her position during the day.

The son of the MP, Vasili Avirovik, was convicted in a dubious case ran by the SPO with code name “Trust”. He has to serve a three year prison sentence because as a manager of “Sileks Nemetali ST” he allegedly misused the procedure for public request for proposal, awarding a public procurement contract to a private partnership.

It’s believed the SPO office blackmailed MP Avirovik to trade her son’s prison sentence for a vote in Parliament.


Zaev ‘ready’ to reach consensus with everyone, including opposition leader

The government is authorized to propose initiating of constitutional amendments and is tasked by a committee, provided that it is approved by Parliament, to prepare draft-amendments within 15 days. Here, as the head of government, I will confirm that together we will sit down to work on amendments, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Tuesday at a session in which MPs debate constitutional changes.

“We must not dare to make amendments ourselves. We only draft the amendments and we will work together if we have to, here in Parliament if necessary, to verify the identity, Macedonian language either in existing amendments or in a new, fifth amendment. Greece has nothing against our identity and our language. I stand ready to talk with Greece, this is not something disputable. The problem is to make a distinction with North,” he stated.

One of the amendments, Zaev said, proposes the adjective ‘North’ to be added before ‘Macedonia’, and another one foresees to highlight decisions of ASNOM (Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia) because ‘the Proclamation of ASNOM calls on Macedonians from all Macedonias.’

According to him, its aims is to prevent any future accusations from Greece about irredentist claims.

The third amendment, Zaev added, secures inviolability of borders and no territorial ambitions.

“Here, in the Balkans, taking care of our citizens living in neighboring countries and beyond is defined in the constitutions differently than those of the EU countries. To care for your expats has to be adequate to the European way without implications for interference into the internal affairs either of neighboring countries or other,” noted Zaev.

The goal, he said, is to find an agreement that would lead to friendship and will leave no marks, which could enable in the future some new administrations, in Macedonia or in Greece, to create some kind of inconveniences.

“Now, we are verifying the need to initiate constitutional amendments, draft-amendments will be voted further in the process. A 2/3 majority is required to support constitutional changes. It’s a process that takes more than 100 days. Thus, once again, as head of executive power, I’m stating that I am ready to sit down with everyone, including the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, in order to establish a consensus on the matter,” Zaev told MPs.

The PM spoke during day two of a debate in Parliament on the proposed constitutional changes. The plenary session resumes on Wednesday.


Philosopher Zaev discusses Macedonia: So if I give my daughter….

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One Prespa signatory says goodbye, Greece’s FM Kotzias quits post

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepted the resignation of Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on Wednesday and will himself take over the foreign affairs portfolio, Tsipras’s office said.

Earlier, Greek media reported that Kotzias had clashed with Defence Minister Panos Kammenos over a deal that aims to end a decades-old name dispute with neighboring Macedonia.

Kotzias was Athens’ main negotiator in the talks that led to the June accord with Skopje to rename Macedonia. Its fate is now quite uncertain because a referendum in Macedonia on the deal failed spectacularly to reach a minimum turnout threshold to make it constitutionally valid.

Greek media reported on Wednesday that Kotzias and Kammenos had argued during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

Greece’s parliament is also meant to ratify the name deal, however this too is up in the air.

As a result, Kotzias has paid the price. And if Greece’s Ministers are simply quitting their posts, it won’t be that simple across the border in Macedonia. The Macedonian public wants their “signatories” in prison.

 

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FM Kotzias removal in Athens tied to 50m euros payment to Zaev & Dimitrov

Greek media has relayed some information how much Athens paid Macedonia’s treasonous duo Zaev and Dimitrov to sign the US State Department authored “Prespa agreement”.

50 million euros.

Athens Media en large have reported that Kotzias removal from the Government came after Tsipras’ coalition partner Panos Kammenos discussed the “missing” of 50m euros from Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs ‘secret fund’. The fund, according to Greek media was also nicknamed the “Soros Fund”. Considering Tsipras’ entire election win and campaigning was financed by Soros, the existence of these funds makes sense. In addition, Soros as part of a globalist group is heavily engaged in changing Macedonia’s name, so it comes as no surprise that his funds were used as payment to Zaev and Dimitrov.

The challenge now is, 50m euros are gone, and according to Kammenos “they were given to the wrong people who can’t get the job done”.

Kammenos here clearly alludes to Macedonia’s duo of Zaev and Dimitrov who can’t ‘get the job done, and rename the country.

The 50m euros further gives additional weight to Zaev’s statements that Greek companies would have an advantage of using “Macedonia”, over Macedonian companies.


Tsipras: Once again, there is no EU and NATO integration for our neighbor without a name change

I encourage the neighbor to proceed with determination and courage and to make the decisive step while completing the obligations stemming from the historic Prespa Agreement, because there will be no other opportunity, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said speaking to reporters after accepting the resignation of FM Nikos Kotzias.

In a four-minute statement Tsipras conveyed several messages referring to Macedonia, and also Greece and the members of his government, MIA’s corespondent from Athens reports.

“Also, I want to send a message to our neighbors who these days are focused on their processes to initiate constitutional changes, change of their constitutional name as foreseen in the Prespa Agreement. I encourage them to proceed with determination and courage because there will be no other opportunity. I will say it here once again that Greece will not accept integration of our neighboring country in any international organizations in which we are members, in this case the EU and NATO, with the constitutional name, Republic of Macedonia,” stressed PM Tsipras.

He said he accepted Kotzias’ resignation “with a heavy heart”. “I have decided in the coming period to take over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This choice of mine is a choice that signalizes my determination to do everything in my power and to make sure the Prespa Agreement is successfully completed, which will improve the international standing of the country,” stated Tsipras.


Mickoski responded to Mitchell: It is always darkest before the dawn

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski responded to Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. We pass the letter integrally

Respected Assistant Secretary Mitchell,

I thank you for your letter which I read with the utmost attention. Furthermore, would like to use this opportunity to thank you for the support which you have given the Republic of Macedonia related to its Euro-Atlantic integration – a process which is of strategic interest to our Political Party, but above all the citizens of our nation. It is my hope that in the near future the Republic of Macedonia will become a member of both NATO and the European Union in a proud and dignified manner, rather then in an undignified and belittled position.

In the further content of this letter I will point out certain facts related to the negotiation process, which was conducted without the creation of a proper ambient in a manner which was adventurous, manipulative, without adequate strategy and with the use of fake messaging. Throughout the entire process of negotiation and creation of the Prespa Agreement we, as the largest political party in Macedonia, were completely excluded and outside of the process itself. In this sense, we were not consulted on any of the issues that are of huge national importance to Macedonia. I am pointing this out because the solution that was reached, and which we are discussing, is a solution that belongs to the entities governing our country. This is not a solution which was reached by consensus, considering that we have now reached a point where such consensus is asked of from the opposition.

Further on, the Government usurped the process and forced forward a manipulative and multi-meaning referendum question which incorporated NATO and the EU. My suggestions were that this question is consciously being created with multi-meanings and to be confusing. Our proposal was that two separate questions be formed: one which would be related to the issue of accepting or not accepting of the Agreement, and one which would express the will of the citizens related to NATO and EU integration – something that I firmly believe is our strategic interest. Again, VMRO-DPMNE did not find understanding on the side of the Government to solve this issue, and the Government decided to move on without consensus with the opposition.

We are witnesses to a process full of misjudged estimations, false hopes and inadequate expectations that were, sadly, created by the Government by lying to the entire International community that it would deliver something that it obviously couldn’t.

Dear Mr. Mitchell,

This Agreement is harmful to the interests of my nation and homeland, and as such is unacceptable for VMRO-DPMNE, and a huge majority of the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia. Exactly this became evident at the recent Referendum where, despite the brutal and violent ballot-box stuffing by individuals and groups close to the Government, there was no success in the intention of creating conditions where the Referendum could be proclaimed as being successful. We have voting places where through brutality and violence ballot-boxes were stuffed and voter turnout is above 90%, even though previous average turnout in these voting places is around 45%. Are these the values which we need to believe in? Is this the manner by which we need to destroy the democratic benefits that we have been developing as an independent and sovereign Republic of Macedonia? Should I stay mute to my students who compare examples where the laws of physics are challenged, and we are witnesses to statistics that show someone voting every five seconds? Should we believe that European values are threats and intimidation that our citizens witnessed on a daily level from the Government, forcing them to go out and vote, while at the same time individuals from that same Government defied electoral legislation by breaking the process of “referendum silence”? In this context, the “European values” presented by our Government, during this period also included pressure on public sector employees which incorporated mass discipline measures, demotions and dismissals of civil servants. Further on, we have seen a continuous political persecution against all those that think differently, and this his become such a common occurrence that we have learned to live with such conditions as a society. In this context, should we remain mute to the fact that institutions remain silenced to what happened before, on the day of, and after the Referendum?

For me, the answer is simple. I refuse to accept this, and not only do I refuse, but I will firmly oppose, using my entire knowledge and capacity through the use of democratic tools, such deviant occurrences. This is not the Macedonia in which we want to live in.

I continue to disbelieve that a contribution to stability, peace and security can be given through an Agreement which:

1. Is rejected by a huge majority of citizens through a Referendum;
2. Which changes the Constitution with the intent of changing the Constitutional Name of our nation;
3. Nullifies acquired rights of the Republic of Macedonia such as: a) UN Resolutions related to Macedonia’s UN Membership; b) The Interim Accord from 1995; c) The ICJ Decision from 2011.
4. Through Article 8 foresees the creation of a Commission between the Republic of Macedonia and Greece with the intent of revising history, archeology and education, thus permanently harming the identity of my nation.
5. Gives up on the care of Macedonian minorities in other nations.

In relation to the actions of the MP Group of VMRO-DPMNE related to the constitutional amendments that are currently in parliamentary procedure, I would like to point out that this is in line with our previous Party stance and viewpoint in relation to the Agreement. This stance was unanimously supported by our entire MP Group, which also considered and gained the legitimacy to act accordingly with the results of the Referendum from September 30th.

I can assure you that if there is any information of threats, coercion, intimidation or any other type of influence on the decision-making of any MP than this is something that is coming from groups or individuals which are not part of the Party structure of VMRO-DPMNE. I do not accept this type of activity and strongly condemn it.

Many times in the past I warned the public, and our friends and allies from the International Community, and I will do this again today. Namely, this process was entrusted to an individual who is not honest in his intentions and promises things that he cannot fulfill and deliver on. Further on, the “flag-bearer” of this process is an individual which is known for political scandals, suspected of criminal acts while holding public office, and at the same time lacks the fundamental will for solving issues of corruption, which can only be done if we uphold the fundamental values of the rule of law. Time has shown that the biggest danger to Macedonia entering a new political crisis is the individual which sits at the head of our Government.

As a friend of the United States of America I firmly understand and value your engagement in this process, and as someone who has been educated and worked in member-states of the EU I wholly share our common western values, and hope that with such values we can build a future for the Republic of Macedonia based on an honest and open relationship. At the same time I am also someone who strongly believes in the basic fundamental benefits of self-determination as a Macedonian and the right of my nation to call itself the Republic of Macedonia.

It is my hope that we can continue to count on and work together with the United States in supporting the realization of the strategic foreign policy priorities of the Republic of Macedonia, with the aim of furthering stability, security and prosperity in Macedonia, the region and the world.

“It is always darkest before the dawn”.

With the utmost respect,

Assoc. Prof. Dr. sc. Hristijan Mickoski
President of VMRO-DPMNE


U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Palmer to visit Macedonia on Monday

United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Matthew Palmer will pay a visit to Macedonia on Monday, says the U.S. Embassy to Skopje.

“Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Matthew Palmer will travel to Macedonia on October 22 to discuss U.S. support for the Prespa Agreement between Macedonia and Greece and the importance of moving forward with Macedonia’s reform agenda. He will meet with government and political party officials, including Prime Minister Zaev and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitrov,” says the U.S. Embassy.

 

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US ambassador Jess Baily is in Parliament, pushing for the name change!

Chaos in Parliament as Zaev offers cash, cars, death threats to VMRO MPs



As expected, today’s day was filled with absolute chaos in Parliament. The assembly session was cancelled three times as Zaev was unable to get 2/3 majority for a name change, therefore the session at Noon, 3pm and 6pm were cancelled.

Meanwhile, for reasons unknown to us, the opposition VMRO was in Parliament where their MPs underwent absolute nightmare. SDS ‘activists’ with shaved heads and thick criminal dossiers are roaming through Parliament assisted by DBK police structures, meeting with VMRO MPs where they were issued death threats if they don’t vote. To ‘calm’ the situation Zaev offered new cars and millions of dollars to the families of the same MPs who received death threats minutes earlier. After unable to change their mind, Zaev cancelled the Parliament session.

Today Parliament was scheduled to either vote on name change or schedule early elections.

Now the Parliament session has been scheduled for 9pm, even though by law it cannot be past 6pm. Two dozen criminals with ties to Zaev are roaming Parliament ‘convincing’ MPs to vote.

Why is VMRO putting up with this level of fascism by Jess Baily’s junta?

Why expose your MPs to this?

 

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Russians meddle in Macedonia through US State Department

OMG! I would love to hear President Putin's or Sergey Lavrov's opinion on that headliner? Too Funny!


Oct. 19, 2018 - Macedonian Parliament approves Country's name change
Macedonian parliament approves country's name change | Reuters


Macedonia's parliament on Friday approved a proposal to change the country's name, bringing a decades-old dispute with Greece one step closer to being resolved.

A total of 80 deputies in the 120-seat parliament voted in favor of renaming the Balkan country Republic of North Macedonia - just reaching the two-thirds majority needed to enact constitutional changes.

The move could unblock its bids to join NATO and the European Union, long blocked by Greece, which argues that “Macedonia” implied territorial claims to a Greek province of the same name.

A group of opposition members of VMRO-DPMNE stand to boycott the vote as Macedonian parliament passes constitutional changes to allow the Balkan country to change its name to the Republic of North Macedonia, in Skopje, Macedonia October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Tomislav Georgiev

The two countries reached agreement on the name change in June.

But hurdles remain before the change can be formalized.

A referendum on the agreement failed to pass the turnout threshold of 50 percent, leaving it up to the Skopje parliament to settle the issue.

The procedure to complete constitutional changes is lengthy and requires several rounds of voting, with Friday’s being just the first stage. The procedure should be completed by January at the latest.

“Today is a historic day for the country,” Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said.

“Macedonia will be part of the European family our dreams and visions for better life in a better country will be fulfilled.”

Once Macedonia formally changes the constitution, the Greek parliament will also have to vote on the deal.

Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who heads a small right-wing party that props up the government in the legislature, has threatened to quit the coalition if the Greek vote goes ahead.

“A great day for democracy in Skopje,” Johannes Hahn, the EU’s commissioner in charge of enlargement, wrote on his Twitter account.

I congratulate all those who decided to walk on along the EU path.”


Kosovo votes to create national army over Serb objections
Kosovo votes to create national army over Serb objections | Reuters

Parliament in Kosovo, which relies on NATO troops for its protection, voted on Thursday to set up a 5,000-strong national army though its Serb minority said the move was illegal.

Serb deputies, backed by Belgrade which does not recognize Kosovo’s independence, have blocked any such move in the past saying creation of a national army required a change to the constitution.

The U.S.-led NATO alliance, which has 4,000 troops in the Balkan country, has also in the past urged Kosovo not to create a national army unless the constitution was amended with the support of the Serb minority.

But three laws, promoted by the Kosovo government and passed on a first reading by a parliamentary vote on Thursday, upgraded the mandate of the lightly-armed domestic Kosovo Security Force (KSF) to transform into an army - something which the government said bypassed the need to make changes to the constitution.

The nationalist-dominated government tried to create a national army last year but were stymied by the refusal of Serb politicians to agree to a change in the constitution.

The draft laws were supported on Thursday by 98 deputies in the 120-seat parliament, though the vote was boycotted by the legislature’s 11 Serb deputies. Approval in a second reading in a few days time is required for the laws to be passed.

“The three laws have one task, to protect the territorial integrity of Kosovo, to protect the citizens of all communities in Kosovo,” Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj said before the vote.

The landlocked Balkan territory of 1.8 million, which declared independence in 2008, is still guarded by stationed NATO troops nearly two decades after the end of the war.

NATO moved into the fledgling state in June 1999 following weeks of air strikes to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanian civilians by Serbian forces fighting a two-year counter-insurgency after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

The United States and most of the European Union member states recognize Kosovo. But objections by permanent Security Council members Russia and China which back Serbia in not accepting Kosovo’s statehood prevent it from being a member of the United Nations.

The draft laws envisage an army of 5,000 active soldiers and 3,000 reservists. The present KSF security force is a lightly armed, 2,500-strong force trained by NATO and tasked with crisis response, civil protection and ordinance disposal.

NATO says it has no plans to leave the territory just now, but it suggested that any change to the status of the KSF might lead to a reduction in its forces there.

“Any change in the structure, mandate and mission of the Kosovo Security Forces is for the Kosovo authorities to decide,” a NATO official told Reuters in an e-mailed answer.

“NATO supports the Kosovo Security Force under its current mandate. Should this mandate evolve, the North Atlantic Council will have to re-examine the level of NATO’s engagement in Kosovo. We cannot predict decisions by the North Atlantic Council.”

 

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Welcome to Deep State concentration camp ‘north macedonia’ – VMRO sold out – Again



After individual voting in the Assembly carried out after 22:00 hrs, 80 MPs voted that the procedure for changing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia in accordance with the Prespa Agreement is opened. Although by law 81 is needed…. it’s silly to talk ‘law’ now, after everything that has happened.

All VMRO MPs who were in custody and were released to vote, voted “For” the procedure, including several MPs like Elizabeta Kancevska Milevska (who we reported earlier accepted 2m euros), Mukoski replaced his jail sentence (released hours before the vote) for ‘freedom’ + 1m euros.

Our initial thought that VMRO is in on it, and all of this was one huge theatrical display, sadly, proved correct.

Here are the VMRO traitors that were successfully bought by Jess Baily.



One hour before the vote, Baily’s fascist junta turned off the electricity in 80% of Skopje.


When they showed me the bag with cash, it was about this big


SMS of Baily and Zaev bribing the 8th MP


VMRO are the White Helmets of Macedonia – mathematically precise, Oscar worthy acting



81 are actually needed for 2/3 majority. We noticed MPs don’t know the most basics of laws. But considering how UCK’s Xhaferi was put in Parliament….

Now, for those with Macedonian passports, frame them as a good memento. This is all thanks to Macedonia’s White Helmets, the VMRO-DPMNE. Not much can be said of the SDS, and we never do, due to their official status as a disease. Instead, our focus will be on the Macedonian White Helmets.

The VMRO played their “opposition” role to a perfection. And if the Deep State gave Oscar to the White Helmets, one certainly needs to be heading VMRO’s way.

To quote VMRO’s bubble-head – ‘everything is mathematically precise’. And it was.

This started long ago, but I’d have to write few volumes to cover all the treason by VMRO since the 1990s.

Instead, I’ll pick things up with Mickoski’s announcement that he would vote “No” in the Referendum. This was very telling where things are. The bubble-head quickly disappeared after being scolded by thousands of people for not openly calling for a boycott.

VMRO unveiled their treason before, during and especially after the referendum. Their role of allegedly “opposing” and being against signing the agreement was all a huge theatrical ploy from day one.

Now, we have to make something clear. There is no question MPs were bought. If they are going to have their last name forever branded as traitors, they might make some money in the process. And they did.

However, VMRO’s (bought) leadership could have easily, very easily prevented all of this. If it wasn’t Mukoski, Milevska… it was going to be someone else, Rangelova… Danev…

We knew from day one who was negotiating with Baily. We mentioned Elizabeta Prada Milevska last weeek, Nola Starova over three weeks ago. There is no question VMRO’s leadership were fully aware of this. We got the information ourselves from another VMRO MP.

A sane political party, the moment they found out Milevska, Starova etc met with Baily’s reps would have immediately expelled them and replaced with someone else. Or simply order all of your MPs out of Parliament, end of story.

However, despite knowing who the traitors are, they left them untouched – that was the deal.

Macedonia’s White Helmets put on a show two days ago when they refused to ‘debate’ in Parliament. Only today to see all MPs back in Parliament (with at least 10 of them meeting with Baily himself in Xhaferi’s office), an SMS from SDS official confirmed this.

VMRO was in on it, always were. To complete the drama, imagine this, the VMRO leadership expelled the traitors from the party after they voted (not when meeting with Baily for weeks). Again, Oscar worthy performance to the last second.

Why were they in Parliament today? If you’re strongly against something, there is no need to be in Parliament.
Mathematically and precisely, bought.

“VMRO MPs bow to Baily’s driver” – Mirka Velinovska.

Macedonia’s White Helmets, the VMRO are history, just like Macedonia.


Kammenos: What shameful Europe is this where 2m euros cash / jail sentences are given per MP vote?

The news that Macedonian MPs are given jail sentences and millions in cash based on how they vote traveled quickly around the world, with the first stop in Greece.

Greece’s Defense Minister and Government coalition partner showed his dismay on social media this evening.

 

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Macedonian Constitution: 81 MPs needed for 2/3 majority

Before the vote took place yesterday, everyone was aware that the Macedonian Constitution clearly outlines the requirement of 81 MPs needed for a 2/3rd majority.

We are not sure what Zaev was celebrating? If our math is correct, 80 < 81.




Krsto Mukoski: From singing the National Anthem, to Treason + $2m



MP Krsto Mukoski went from singing the national anthem in Parliament, to selling out the country by supporting Zaev which translated into buying his freedom + cash.

This reminds us of a conversation we had with MINA’s founder years ago, perhaps over 7-8 years, well before any of the craziness that unfolded this week.

We aren’t sure how the conversation started, all we know was that his family did have ties to VMRO, but not with the prostitutes in VMRO today, this goes back to the fifties and sixties… when VMRO officials were functioning in absentia and were being hunted down for their plans for independent Macedonia. What a difference eh? From plans for independent Macedonia to selling Macedonia.

“In early 2000s I became a VMRO member, you can say an official, and was promoted within the party in less than a week. I quit the party on my 8th day after having a conversation with VMRO’s leadership“.

When we asked him “Why” – the response was: “The people I met are of very low quality, flawed individuals. Nothing Macedonian in them.”

They certainly have a way of showing it, over and over and over again.

Here is Mukoski putting up a show, but this is before he saw the cash…

It’s difficult to pick which traitor outdid another, but VMRO MP Emilija Aleksandrova (Mijalkov’s cousin) is certainly up for an award. Just last week, she wrote a column, yes, she wrote a column where she lambasted all MPs that nobody has the right or the mandate to be changing the name. Aleksandrova in action…

2m euros later, she voted for it.


Moscow will not recognize renaming of Macedonia by Government junta



A tweet by the Russian Embassy in Macedonia stated official Moscow position is that it will not recognize the renaming of Macedonia as it goes contrary to the will of the people clearly shown in the referendum boycotted on September 30th.

Moscow will block any move at the UN to rename the country.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1053754859969748992

 

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Who needs Zaev when you got Mijalkov



Mickoski has apparently developed a stuttering problem, probably after realizing he is a head of a political party that’s now dead, or at the same level as the SDSM – a disease.

But Micko at the DPNE is not even a figurehead, more of a statue. All decisions go through its unofficial head, the traitor’s traitor, Sasho Mijalkov.

Gruevski’s cousin, Sasho Mijalkov conveniently nicknamed shiptar brought the duffel bag of cash to Krsto Mukoski while the MP was under ‘house arrest’. As Mijalkov persuaded Mukoski to vote in Parliament, as if by miracle Bailly’s Court provided an emergency release allowing the MP to leave his house and vote in Parliament. Mukoski was expelled from the party, but Mijalkov isn’t?

Gruevski’s cousin Sasho Mijalkov brought a duffel bag of cash to Emilija Aleksandrova (cousin of both Gruevski and Mijalkov), pressured her to vote in Parliament. She voted, got expelled from party, but Mijalkov isn’t?

Gruevski’s cousin Sasho Mijalkov brought a duffel bag of cash to MP Arnaudov, pressures him to vote in Parliament. He votes, gets expelled from party, but Mijalkov isn’t?

This went on for each MP, the DPNE was very aware that one of their most influential individuals is undermining the country. Sasho Mijalkov was the main recruiter. The SPO dropped all charges only against him, because Jess Baily needed him for his authority during the recruitment process / cash deliveries.

The irony is that DPNE MPs were kept in prison and then house arrest in order to break them down (jail+cash) for allegedly subverting the Constitution on April 27th. Then, this Constitution breaking MPs get released 2 hours before the vote, so they can vote on changing the Constitution!? This would be like hiring a pedofile to take care of your kids while you’re going on a business trip abroad.

We encourage the DPNE to erase their name from Macedonia’s registrar of political parties. For this treasonous party to be using such a glorious name is truly shameful.




With DPNE now history, Levica announces public uprising against Jess Baily’s fascist Government junta



What happened in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia was only a theatrical play where the tyranny of political elites once again showed its ugly face masked as “democracy”!

Individuals from both criminal political associations of SDSM and DPMNE, who are today in the Macedonian Parliament, allegedly as public representatives, after the failed referendum on “Northern Macedonia” have no longer any legitimacy to decide on changing the constitutional name of the Republic against the will of the people , writes in its Declaration Levica.

“Political corruption can not produce legitimate decisions that will represent the will of the people! Corrupt MPs, due to their criminal records, are susceptible to blackmail and bribe additionally sabotaging their political ability to independently and, in accordance with the will of the people, make legitimate decisions in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonia today is an occupied, captive state, and the behind-the-scenes anti-democratic games of both political criminal hordes serve one and the same master – capital and money.

They (DPMNE) make noise, act as fake opposition, but when it comes time for the implementation of the vassal fascist decisions of their imperial masters, which the people explicitly refused, these structures – through mutual protection and behind closed doors – decide the fate of the people in accordance with requests by the occupier. Therefore, references and calls for rule of law and established standards and procedures no longer make sense, because this deregulated governing mafia has placed all authorities under its control and deals with political opponents using the apparatus of state coercion and repression.

Because of this, we call for massive civil resistance against all those involved in this constitutional-political crisis and its future overcoming by ultimately fulfilling the following requirements:

● Unconditional suspension of the unconstitutional and illegal government initiative for changing the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia and annulment of the rejected so-called “Prespa Agreement”;

● Urgent dissolution of Parliament and scheduling early parliamentary elections;

● Forming a transitional technical government with a limited mandate solely for fair and democratic elections, writes Levica in the Declaration of Resistance.

Levica announces that the party will return to the streets in the future and will use all parliamentary and non-parliamentary ways of political struggle in order to restore the kidnapped sovereignty of the people.

The party announces that mass anti-government protests will be organized under the motto of the #People’s-Self-Defense (#NarodnaSamoodbrana), in front of Parliament, where the grave diggers of ASNOM are sitting.

Resistance is our duty, wrote the Presidium of “Levica”.

 

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US orchestrated unfair vote in Macedonian parliament on name change - Russian FM

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the US orchestrated an “unfair vote” in the Macedonian parliament which approved the country’s name change, despite a failed popular referendum.

The Macedonian parliament last weekend narrowly greenlighted the name change which signals a “brighter future” with NATO, but Macedonian voters by-and-large boycotted the referendum, with only 36.9 percent of eligible voters participating.

Earlier, the US State Department had urged the Macedonian opposition to vote for the name change despite the failed referendum, which was rendered invalid due to the low turnout.

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Palmer headed to Skopje on Monday to provide support to the country’s pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Zaev after the knife-edge parliamentary vote on Friday.

Some opposition MPs decided to boycott the vote, standing at the side of the room instead of taking their seats, and the ruling coalition barely secured the required 80 out of 120 majority to push the measure through.

But Russia believes the parliamentary vote was rigged, claiming that eight votes had been secured "through blackmail, and threatening and bribing opposition deputies".

"We view what happened as an open violation of all norms, both from a legal and moral point of view. Such dirty manipulations cannot be regarded as an expression of parliamentarians' will," the Russian ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Before the vote, some opposition MPs facing terrorism charges were reportedly offered amnesty if they voted with the ruling party to greenlight the name change process, which prompted accusations that the Western-backed Zaev was buying support.

One opposition MP, Antonio Miloshoski, said the promise of amnesty was “proof that [Zaev] has instrumentalized the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office for political purposes.”

 

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US orchestrated unfair vote in Macedonian parliament on name change - Russian FM

The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the US orchestrated an “unfair vote” in the Macedonian parliament which approved the country’s name change, despite a failed popular referendum.

Monday Oct. 22, 2018 - Russia says Macedonian Parliament Vote to back Country's Name Change was Rigged
Russia says Macedonian parliament vote to back country's name change was rigged | Reuters

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday that a vote in the Macedonian parliament that backed changing the country’s name was rigged through a combination of blackmail, threats and vote-buying.

Macedonia’s parliament on Friday approved a proposal to change the country’s name, bringing a decades-old dispute with Greece one step closer to being resolved, a move that could unblock its bid to join NATO, something Moscow opposes.

“We view what happened as an open violation of all norms, both from a legal and moral point of view. Such dirty manipulations cannot be regarded as an expression of parliamentarians’ will,” the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

It said that eight votes needed to reach the two-thirds majority needed to enact constitutional changes had been secured “through blackmail, and threatening and bribing opposition deputies”.


Oct. 22, 2018 - Former Croatia PM sentenced for Bribe, War Profiteering
Former Croatia PM sentenced for bribe, war profiteering | Reuters


Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader is seen at a court during an announcement of a verdict in Zagreb, Croatia October 22, 2018. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic

Former Croatian prime minister, Ivo Sanader, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on Monday for taking a bribe from Austria's then Hypo Alpe Adria bank during the 1991-95 war.

Sanader - who has dismissed the proceedings as politically motivated - was not taken into custody and left the court without making a statement. His lawyer, Jadranka Slokovic, said he had already spent longer than that period in detention and would appeal.

The judge said Sanader received 3.6 million kuna ($556,156.34) from Hypo when he was deputy foreign minister - an act that she said amounted to war profiteering.

He then cleared the way for the bank - which has since collapsed - to loan Croatia money to buy buildings for embassies and consulates, the judge added in a statement broadcast live on TV.

Sanader, who went on to become prime minister from 2003 to 2009, was originally convicted and jailed over the case in 2012 - then had the conviction overturned three years ago after the Constitutional Court said he had been denied a fair trial.

At the end of his re-trial on Monday, the court ordered Sanader to pay back the bribe to the state.

In a separate re-trial set to begin on Tuesday, Sanader is charged with taking a bribe from Hungarian energy group MOL in 2008 to let it get a dominant position in Croatia’s energy firm INA. MOL’s chief executive Zsolt Hernadi is also charged and will be tried in absentia.

Sanader, Hernadi and MOL have all denied any wrongdoing in that case.


Oct. 22, 2018 - Bulgaria seizes $14.3 Million in Fake Bills
Bulgaria seizes $14.3 million in fake bills | Reuters

Bulgarian authorities raided a print shop on Monday that was making counterfeit cash, and seized fake euro and dollar bills worth more than $14.3 million, the interior ministry said on Monday.

Special forces for combating organized crime stormed a basement in hotel in the Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach and seized some 100-euro and 500-euro notes and 50-dollar bills, the ministry said.

“From the print shop and from different hideouts, over 11 million fake euros and over $1.7 million were seized, some stockpiled ready and some unfinished,” the statement said.

The raid at the print shop, the biggest to be discovered for 11 years, as well as some other 30 sites in the Balkan country, followed a 10-month investigation supported by Europol and U.S. intelligence.

The print shop had sophisticated presses making very high quality bills, prosecutors overseeing the operation said, adding that four people were arrested.

 

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With DPNE now history, Levica announces public uprising against Jess Baily’s fascist Government junta

What happened in the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia was only a theatrical play where the tyranny of political elites once again showed its ugly face masked as “democracy”!

While Levica organizes protests, VMRO sellouts admit snake Mijalkov did bribe MPs

Looks like there is a need of creating a specific category at MINA entitled “too little too late” where all the news from the DPNE will be archived.

After their Executive Committee session, Mickoski and Aleksandar London Nikolovski decided to state the obvious, something we’ve been reporting on time and time again.

“The person Sasho Mijalkov did visit numerous VMRO MPs at their homes, offered them bribes and persuaded them to vote for name change in Parliament. He was accompanied by other individuals to further intimidate the MPs” stated A. London Nikolovski. Mickoski went further, stating Mijalkov was closely collaborating with Zaev, his brother Vice Zaev and the SPO to target MPs that would easily crack and make them vote in Parliament.

Now, for those who don’t know the snake Sasho Mijalkov, he has more ties to the mafia than the mafia itself. In addition, he owns dozen residential complexes across Europe, with the majority in Prague. He is also the majority shareholder of the new Marriott Hotel in downtown Skopje, courtesy of his cousin Gruevski.

It is for this reason, the US Ambassador Jess Baily picked Mijalkov to get the “job done”. He has a great deal of authority and people fear him due to his background.

It took the VMRO sellouts to undergo a complete and utter collapse as a political party to admit the obvious!? But don’t worry, the DPNE did announce in the end they are dedicated to Euro&NATO integration. And no, this isn’t satire, both Mickoski and Nikoloski said this in the end with a straight face. It is as if they have completely lost their mind. This is the same as a rape victim stating in Court she remains dedicated to hooking up with her rapist after the Court proceedings.

Instead of standing up to the fascist who brutalized Macedonian laws and democracy and ordering students on the streets, ordering professors out of Universities and onto streets and bringing the country to a stand still, the imbeciles vow to remain dedicated to Euro-Atlantic integration! This is what your focus is, really?

And while the sellouts are busy admitting what everyone knows, Levica is doing exactly what they said they would. They are organizing protests. This evening around 100 people blocked Parliament and have vowed to do it every day.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1488679551234896

VMRO sellouts expel traitors Mijalkov, Jancev, Bogdanov and Nikola Todorov

Macedonia’s white helmets or the “too little too late” political party decided to expel its mega traitors:

1. Sasho Mijalkov – mega traitor, the man who sold out his father’s legacy, sold out his cousin (Gruevski) when as the head of DBK wiretapped every single VMRO official and then shared the data with CIA and MI6. If this isn’t the highest treason, US Ambassador Jess Baily through Sasho Mijalkov first blackmailed MPs & distributed (bribed) MPs with over $15m in cash to ‘persuade’ them to vote “for” name change in Parliament.
2. Nikola Todorov – gave SDS the names and phone numbers of 400,000 VMRO members. Urged Macedonians to vote in referendum.
3. Kostadin Bogdanov – one of Baily’s man and SDS implant embedded into VMRO’s executive committee.
4. Mitko Jancev – SDS implant, foolishly promoted by Gruevski as VMRO-DPMNE VP. Urged Macedonians to vote “For” name change in referendum. Told Deutche Welle he wished he was an MP so he could vote for name change in Parliament. During local elections Jancev ‘was allowed’ to win the mayorship of Kavadarci, while the SDS took every other city.
5. They forgot Zaev’s bodyguard, Gjorchev.

These traitors were expelled this evening by a decision of the Executive Committee (the lesser traitors) of the party. Also, a decision was made to give Mickoski full confidence as the head of the party.

The party knew of these traitors for at least a year and in Mijalkov’s case for five years. Not sure what the DPNE is trying to achieve, the damage has already been done. It could be just an overly desperate attempt realizing they are done as a political party.




Journalist Nedelkovski detained by Zaev’s junta for writing on FB about Zaev



Well, it’s not like we didn’t see this coming.

Zaev’s criminal junta detained journalist Milenko Nedelkovski from his farm in central Macedonia. Was transported to Skopje for questioning.

At first, SDS run portals published information that Nedelkovski was detained for violating an obscure law on ‘hate speech’, allegedly tied to the Greek fires this summer.

This however turned out to be complete nonsense.

Nedelkovski was questioned about his FB posts on Zaev and his criminal junta. It’s clear they are trying to suppress any information, including details on the bribery of MPs and Mijalkov’s deep involvement.

This evening Nedelkovski was released, but not before being held for 8 hours at the police station in Avtokomanda.

Like any criminal junta, Zaev is attempting to silence the truth coming out.