Law enforcement in the Republic of Macedonia

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.

At its 19th press conference in recent weeks on the subject of alleged government wiretapping, the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, on Tuesday presented covertly-recorded tapes that they say further prove that the ruling VMRO DPMNE party of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been systematically and massively employing its own people in all state institutions and punishing those who think diff

Stevo Pendarovski, the defeated Social Democrat candidate in the 2014 presidential elections, said President Ivanov should return his mandate and quit because he owed his win to the same election tricks that the government had used to win general elections.

SKOPJE, BELGRADE - The Serbian and Macedonian police will intensify the cooperation in stopping illegal migrants at the joint border, with the assistance from their colleagues from Austria, this is the conclusion of Thursday's meeting between officials of the two countries.

Zoran Zaev, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, has called on people to join the party when it reveals what it promises will be the "most significant, most insolent and most outrageous examples" of electoral fraud committed by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his ruling VMRO DPMNE party.

Gruevski, who insists that he has nothing with alleged wiretapping of more than 20,000 people, said that a press release issued by his VMRO DPMNE party had been misunderstood and was not calling for violence against government opponents.

Top politicians, opposition leaders, NGO activists, journalists, businessmen, top academics, religious leaders and members of the judiciary have been subjected to widespread surveillance ordered by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and secret police chief Saso Mijalkov, the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, claimed on Monday.

UK to assist Macedonia in fighting organised crime

British experts will train Macedonian police and inspectors in the fight against organised crime.

The British National Crime Agency will assist Macedonian police in dealing with organised crime and terrorism threats. [NCA]

The opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, have condemned the publication of a video, which purports to show the opposition leader admitting that he obtained incriminating material from foreign intelligence agencies.

The fact that the "Prime Minister is recording political meetings in his cabinet is scandalous", the SDSM said on Tuesday.

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