The proposed name change is part of an agreement reached in June by pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Macedonia's neighbour Greece to resolve a decades-old dispute that had prevented Macedonia from joining NATO or the EU.
The court based its ruling on Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia's prime minister, on evidence from audio collected during a wiretapping scandal in 2015.
The public prosecutor's office says it has issued an order for 36 people in connection to an attack by protesters that left more than 100 people injured in April.
Protesters stormed into Macedonia's parliament and assaulted the leader of the Social Democrats after his party and ethnic Albanian allies voted to elect an Albanian as parliament speaker.
EU commissioner Hahn slams Macedonian president's decision to stop wiretap inquiry that dragged country into deep political crisis
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