Progressive Alliance

The political tensions in Macedonia remain heightened as the opposition SDSM leader Zoran Zaev hurled fresh accusations against the government.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Zaev stated that he will expose facts proving that the state leadership and the interior ministry plotted in the cover-up of a 2011 police killing.

By Costas Iordanidis

BELGRADE - Chairman of the Executive Council of Vojvodina Bojan Pajtic said Monday that the provincial and local elections cannot be held before the spring of 2016, when, due to the situation in the country, a snap parliamentary election should also take place.

Opposition DS holds protest rally in Belgrade

BELGRADE -- The Democratic Party (DS) on Saturday held a rally on Republic Square in Belgrade that brought together about 5,500 supporters, according to police estimates.

The party is in opposition in the state parliament, and in power in the province of Vojvodina.

BELGRADE - Under the motto of "Illuminate Serbia", the Democratic Party (DS) on Saturday held a rally on the Republic Square in downtown Belgrade that brought out what police estimated to be around 5,500 opposition supporters.

Ahead of a rally in Belgrade scheduled for Saturday, Bojan Pajtic, the head of the opposition Democratic Party, said the "poor condition" of the country meant snap elections are necessary.

"Between 2000 and 2012, Serbia's debt was by 1.5 billion euros. Under three years of Vucic [Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister], the debt has increased by 10 billion," he claimed.

Journalists, NGO activists and some former politicians joined the gesture of support for the journalist Borjan Jovanovski after a funeral wreath sent by an anonymous person arrived at his family home.

In a symbolic protest, the journalists delivered their own funeral wreath to the government, inscribed with the same words: "Final Greetings".

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu released his party's election manifesto. The main slogan, "A Livable Turkey," addresses everyone who has a complaint. First of all, let me stress that with this manifesto, the CHP has rather strengthened its "social democrat" identity.

Turkey's main oppositional social democrat party has outlined an ambitious election manifesto with concrete and holistic promises to end poverty, address the problems of the country's 17 million poor and prioritize turning the country into a first-class democracy. 

Turkey's main oppositional social democrat party has outlined an ambitious election manifesto with concrete and holistic promises to end poverty, address the problems of the country's 17 million poor and prioritize turning the country into a first-class democracy.