NEW GOVERNMENT BEING COMPLETED
admin1 – July 15, 2011 – 1:12pm

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has completed the team that he is going to run from Ilindenska Street bb over the next four years.

Current Education Minister Nikola Todorov is the new Minister of Health. He will be the first minister at the head of the health sector although not being a doctor by profession. Current Ambassador to the European Union Nikola Poposki will be the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. Mile Janakieski is going to remain Transport Minister, as Zoran Stavreski and Vladimir Pesevski are going to stay Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs respectively. Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska and Culture Minister Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska are also going to retain their positions.

It is uncertain whether Deputy Minister Spiro Ristovski will be promoted to Minister of Labor and Social Affairs. Ivo Ivanovski will remain Minister of Information Society and Administration and it is still unknown who is going to replace Todorov as Minister of Education. Ljupco Dimovski from the Socialist Party is going to remain Minister of Agriculture.

Ahmeti offered only one new name - Valon Saracini from the American College in Skopje - and the other ministers of BDI have only rotated departments. Teuta Arifi is going to participate in the executive branch for the first time as Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs. Musa Xhaferi who has served in the Ministry of Local Government will now be Deputy Prime Minister for the Framework Agreement. Economy Minister Fatmir Besimi will hereafter be at the head of the Ministry of Defense and Saraj Mayor Blerim Bexheti will be Minister of Justice. Abdulaqim Ademi, who has so far been Deputy Prime Minister for the Framework Agreement will now be Minister of Environment, while Nevzat Bejta will be Minister of Local Government.