Stojan Andov, the first president of the Assembly of the independent and sovereign Republic of Macedonia, died at the age of 89. He was born in Kavadarci in 1935.

He was considered an outstanding connoisseur and expert on economic issues, as well as a politician oriented towards the market economy. He was the ambassador of the former Yugoslavia in Iraq (1987-1991).

He is the founder of the Liberal Party of Macedonia and as its president he led the party until its merger with the Democratic Party in 1997, when he was elected president of the Council of the newly formed Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

In the first multi-party elections in 1990, he was elected as a member of Parliament, and later in all subsequent elections in the country. He was the president of the Assembly for three terms. After the assassination of the former president, Kiro Gligorov, on October 3, 1995, he also held the office of president for a while.

He was a candidate for the president of the Republic of Macedonia in the presidential elections in 1999. 

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE and mandate holder for the composition of the new government, Hristijan Mickoski, said today that the official composition of the future government with ministerial positions and the program for its work will be submitted to the Parliament on Tuesday, June 18. Earlier, as he said, the Executive and Central Committee of VMRO-DPMNE will hold sessions on Sunday, where Mickoski will present the personnel solutions for future ministers with their biographies.

Regarding the personnel decisions of the coalition partners of VMRO-DPMNE in the new government, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE said that he does not want to speak on their behalf and that he expects them to announce them themselves.

The future government, said Mickoski, will be composed of the "Your Macedonia" coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE, the "Vredi" coalition and the ZNAM - Za nasha Macedonia Movement, whose leader is the current mayor of Kumanovo, Maksim Dimitrievski. In that context, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE and mandate holder for the composition of the new government says that every week they will present one more promise. "We are planning a very intense schedule of activities in the first 100 days," he said.