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Osmani: Number of RNM nationals who registered online in the census exceeds 60 000, highest response rate in Switzerland

Bujar Osmani, the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia (RNM) informed that the headcount of the diplomatic service ends today, but the online census of the RNM nationals living abroad continues. The number of registered people who live in the diaspora has exceeded 60.000, and most of the people registered live in Switzerland - 16.000, Germany...

North Macedonia: COVID-19 epidemic isn’t postponing the census, 40.397 persons from the Diaspora evidenced in the application

Until this morning at 8:50 am, a total of 40 397 persons from the Diaspora were evidenced in the self-evidencing application for the census by the State Statistical Office -SSO, of North Macedonia. The number of registered persons is growing each day and SSO informs that every day they are monitoring the process and are communicating with the North...

Only 2.855 from 87.000 emigrants have applied to vote in the referendum

The latest report submitted to the SEC shows that, as of today, 2 855 voters have been registered for the referendum at diplomatic and consular missions of Macedonia, of which 2,755 have been accepted. 100 applications were rejected, stating that some of the persons who had submitted them have expired travel documents, while some of them had no residence in...

Zaev to the Diaspora: If you love your country, vote on the referendum

Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev met with representatives of the Macedonian Diaspora from Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and the United States, who expressed support for the government's policies for Macedonia's membership in NATO and the European Union, the government's press service announced. At the meeting they discussed several current issues, including the importance of the upcoming referendum and...

Visualization: VMRO-DPMNE wins 51 seats, while SDSM wins 49 seats

According to the preliminary results from Macedonia State Election Commission for yesterday’s early parliamentary elections,VMRO-DPMNE won two seats more than SDSM. The President of the SEC, Aleksandar Chichakovski, said that according to the preliminary results, VMRO-DPMNE won 51 seats, SDSM 49 seats, DUI 10 the Besa Movement 5, the Alliance of Albanians 3, and the DPA 2 won seats. The SEC...

SEC: Voting within the Diaspora is going smoothly

"All polling stations in correctional departments opened at 7:00 am and voting will last until 19:00 pm. 2,015 people have the right to vote at these polling stations. In the duration of today’s vote, 13 individuals who are in centres for internally displaced people will go to the polls, as well as a total of 5746 voters who will...

Diaspora can get three MPs if all those registered vote

The registration of voters from the diaspora ends today, and according to recent information from the State Election Commission, 18,600 citizens have registered. The SEC expects by midnight during registration the number to exceed 19,000 citizens. The Commission said, however, if all those registered vote on December 11, the diaspora can get three MPs. According to the amendments to the...

Registration for the Diaspora to vote will last until November 11, 2016

A total of 1,011 citizens have applied through the electronic application on the official website of the State Election Commission (SEC), to vote in the early parliamentary elections in diplomatic consular representations. The Commission said that from the 1,011 applicants, 515 were accepted, 32 were rejected and 464 are still under review. “The State Election Commission calls on all citizens who...

Macedonian residents in USA fall prey to cheap flight ticket scam

Macedonians residing in the USA have been the target of a scam that apparently promises cheap flights to Skopje. The scam was originally noticed by the Macedonian Diaspora during the New Year celebration. Ljupco Stanchevski, a resident of Columbus, Ohio for 25 years, told "Meta" it was while celebrating a New Year in the city, at a party, that...

After a night of tension, SPUKM announces they have selected a President

The new President of the Student Parliament of UKIM with 3.851 votes is Davor Popovski, announced SPUKM this morning. They also said the total amount of students who voted was 5.264. SPUKM also announced that the electoral process was fair and democratic, apart from the actions of the scandalous political motivated “Student Plenum”, who have been there largest critics during the...

Grubi: SEC will have to be voted by consensus

An agreement has been decided on the Diaspora ,for selecting members of the SEC and the electoral roll, said MP DUI Artan Harsh after the meeting of the working groups. "We won all the battles, all the decisions that SEC will carry out it will have to be voted by consensus. It is a kind of Badinter that Macedonians will have...

New meeting is scheduled for today for working groups over the electoral legislative

After a three day break, a meeting was again scheduled today at 13.30 pm for the working groups, signatories to the Przhino Agreement learns "Meta". Mediator, Peter Vanhoutte should submit a draft proposal of the electoral law at the meeting that will be presented to the representatives of the political parties. "Meta" learned that the only matter agreed upon is how members of...

Zaev: SDSM are fighting for the constitutional right and equality to vote for the Diaspora

SDSM is not against the Diaspora vote, but are fighting for their constitutional right and equality to vote, said the leader of the opposition, Zoran Zaev. “Our proposal is to have a census and to choose a MP with the same amount of votes as they would get in Macedonia. Or, the votes by the Diaspora , to have one...

Todorov: SDSM wants the Diaspora to vote, but without their own MP

The main problem of the working groups of the political parties who are signatories to the Przhino Agreement is SDSM insisting that the Diaspora should not have their own MP in Parliament in Macedonia, said the negotiator from VMRO-DPMNE, the Health Minister Nikola Todorov for "A1On." “It is quite problematic especially when you hear their statements and you get the...

Only bilateral meetings today, an uncertain re-stablishment of negotiations

“Meta” sources from within the working groups have said that the working group is scheduled to meet only if bilateral meetings with international representatives have visible progress on the argumentative issues around electoral law. This afternoon, the parties expected to have bilateral meetings with representatives from the international community, and depending on the results of those meetings, maybe in the late...

A new attempt today to coordinate the different positions of the electoral legislation

After a day off at the MP's Clubhouse, today talks are expected to continue on the electoral legislation and electoral register. As announced yesterday by the opposition, today they expect the European Unions representatives to submit a ready version of the election law, and then for the parties to talk. Although the parties announced that most matters are now closed, they...

Zaev: Gruevski’s proposal for just 20 MP’s from the Diaspora is unacceptable

Zoran Zaev, the leader of SDSM, finds the proposal by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for the Diaspora to elect 20 MP's unacceptable. “The equal right to vote, or the equality of all voters everywhere is one option that was on offer. If we have 8,200 voters for a MP in Europe, there will be an MP, if it happened in...

Gruevski: We need 20 MP’s from the Diaspora

Starting talks on elections and electoral legislation, the Prime Minster today in Mogila in front of journalists, announced that he would like to have fair elections. That way, as Gruevski said, he will be open and support any idea. The Prime Minister, among others, stressed that the best model for voting was the majority model. As for the Diaspora vote,...

Election math: 3+3+3 for DIK and 2+2 for the Electoral list

The political parties-signatories to the Przhino Agreement and their Action groups will discuss tomorrow about the electoral list and voting in the diaspora. Meta previously reported that the biggest political parties have come to an agreement regarding the members of the State Elections Commission (DIK) by accepting the proposal of SDSM, according to which, the members will be selected by...

Conclusions from today’s Przhino Agreement meeting: SDSM wants Macedonia as one electoral unit; The electoral list will be comprised through active registration

Today’s meeting of the Action groups is underway at the Parliamentary Club. The meeting is expected to bring a decision about the way of registering voters on the electoral list. It is very likely that the parties will agree on active registration. SDSM is pushing for the country to become a single electoral unit. SDSM today is represented by Cvetanka Ivanova...