The arrangement allows the MPs – including four current or former Independent Greeks cadres – to formally remain in their current party while backing SYRIZA on all legislation.
The change would allow the leader of a party with fewer than five MPs to retain the same privileges he or she did when they led a recognised group.
Zaev said that he negotiated with Greece without the ethnic identity of Macedonians who speak Macedonian and have their own tradition and history being disputed.
With 145 MPs in the 300-seat legislature ruling SYRIZA will from now on depend on ad hoc majorities with six extra independent MPs.
The agreement re-names the country Republic of North Macedonia and puts an end to its interim name Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
'The alternate foreign minister’s admission that there is not and there will not be a codified version of the Constitution of Skopje (sic), including the amendments based on the agreement, confirmed our worst fears,' MP Nikos Dendias said.
Amidst skirmishes between some of the approximately 2,000 protestors and the large riot police force, one woman was injured by a flare and another suffered back burns.
A country cannot be governed with MPs switching parties or abandoning their own and with promises to wandering MPs.
The 10-11 January visit comes in the run-up to the crucial ratification vote in the Greek Parliament, right after FYROM amends its Constitution
Tsipras revealed that days after the planned ratification of the Prespa Agreement he will table for a vote the Protocol regarding FYROM’s Nato accession.
If Panos Kammenos resign only after it the Prespa Accord is tabled in the Greek Parliament, that would allow PM Alexis Tsipras to put off the ratification for as long as he believes Kammenos is useful in the government.
It is in the national interest to resolve the FYROM naming issue at long last. Unfortunately for SYRIZA, the national interest does not coincide with its divisive politics.
The country’s basic law cannot be used as a field of confrontation and domination by either the Left or the Right.
The first four volumes of the secret Cyprus File, which has been locked up in the Greek Parliament for decades, and which was compiled, classified, and reconstituted by parliament, will be handed over by Parlaiment Speaker Nikos Voutsis to President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and opposition leaders tomorrow. The full content of the […]
If creditors insist on implementation of the pension cuts, the government will be in an extremely tough spot, due to the huge outcry from retirees