Tag: elections

In an interview with European Western Balkans, Slovenian MEP praised the Governments courage in resolving the decades-long dispute with Greece over the name of the country but recalls that the road to the EU for Northern Macedonia involves many reforms. He said he was concerned with slow reforms in the judiciary, as well as the state of media freedom...

SDSM's Executive Board has decided not to call for snap parliamentary elections along with the forthcoming presidential elections, as the opposition demanded. When the session was over yesterday evening, spokesperson Kostadin Kostadinov said that the citizens are requesting to see the results from the economy, the reforms, and the integrations first. "A party to which the interest of the citizens...

During yesterday's session, VMRO-DPMNE's Executive committee appointed Jovan Jauleski Chairman of the party's Youth Union and Igor Janushev, the Secretary-General of the party, was appointed Head of the Electoral team for the forthcoming presidential elections, informs the party. Stefan Andonovski was appointed Advisor for international politics to party's President Hristijan Mickovski, while Toni Dimitrievski was appointed Advisor for goodneighborly politics. The...

SDSM's Central Board will get together on Friday and a debate about a consensual candidate is underway, replied  Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today at the press conference regarding projects on the road infrastructure when asked about the name of the consensual presidential candidate. He also said that as a party and as a coalition that wants to win at the...

In the Republic of Macedonia, in April, this year, the sixth presidential elections are set to be held. The presidential election, as envisaged by the Constitution of the Republic of Macedonia, should be announced 60 days before the end of the mandate of the current head of state. The incumbent President Gjorge Ivanov’s second five-year term expires on May...

In his first statement after the adoption of the amendments to the Constitution in Parliament by 81 votes, the leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski demanded the dissolution of Parliament and for extraordinary parliamentary elections along with presidential elections. Mickoski said he would not support any changes to the Constitution for the change of the constitutional name and that...

The president of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski has categorically denied the unofficial information and media reports that Vice President Mitko Janchev and President of the Union of Women, Daniela Rangelova will be dismissed at this afternoon's session of the Executive Committee. The leader of the opposition party told "Plusinfo" that it is speculation cooked up in the Social Democrats 'kitchen' and is...

Vice-President of VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikolovski informed that the Central Committee at its last session confirmed the conclusions from the Executive Committee; the dismissal of the public prosecutor and the election of a public prosecutor on the proposal of the opposition, the establishment of an Inquiry Committee in Parliament who will investigate all irregularities in connection with the referendum and...

VMRO-DPMNE's request for a technical government with a mandate of 100 days in accordance with the Przino Agreement, for a new Public prosecutor and an Inquiry Commission for the referendum, are absolutely unacceptable, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev today in Ohrid, where he is taking part in a scientific conference about Macedonia's future economic development organized by MANU. -There...

We will not have any elections or a more clear demonstration than the upcoming referendum. This message will be conveyed to the public by September 30th, therefore our message is for everyone to exercise their right and express their opinion, said Minister of Defense Radmila Sekerinska while responding to a journalist's question whether early parliamentary elections are plan "B" after MPs...

Whatever the outcome of the referendum, the final word on the Prespa Accord will be given to the Greek people, either in a referendum or in elections, said the coalition partner in the Greek government Panos Kammenos, repeating his positions again, but revealing his next steps after Macedonia would complete the proposed obligations. "My first proposal to the Prime Minister...

I have participated in elections since 1994 and have always cooperated with the institutions, Janakieski can give directions, but whether I did what he said is another issue, I really do not remember, said Derkovski for Makfax following today's hearing of the Titanic case. The courtroom heard the voice of the incumbent director of the State Election Commission in one...

No matter what the outcome of the election analysis will be, I will resign to the organs of the party, stated the leader of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, in an interview with “Kurir”. “The evening after the first round of elections, I clearly stated that the party leader carries the greatest responsibility. Then in a television interview, I explained...

After yesterday's speech by party leader Nikola Gruevski, where he declared the elections as irregular and said that he does not recognize them, today VMRO-DPMNE told “Meta” that this does not mean that the mandates and seats they won will be returned, because that "would only help Zaev and SDSM, and make it easier for them to trade national...

“The last long speech by the fearful and confused Gruevski has nothing to do with these elections. The man was talking about his own experience, of what he did during the elections in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014”, said the Liberal Party in a statement, where they concluded that the recent elections were fair and democratic, adding that...

The Minister of Interior, Oliver Spasovski, at a press conference that occurred an hour after the polling stations were closed, announced that there are seven people that were taken into custody for election frauds, including one person that was taken into custody because of physical violence which is still investigated whether it is related to the elections. -After a...

Family and group voting, problems caused by unauthorized persons and photographing ballots were registered at several polling stations until 13:00 hours, report civil organization Most's observers. "At voting station 1471, in the village of Debreshte, municipality Dolneni, 9 cases of family voting were reported as 27 votes were misused. Additionally, at the same location, two cases were registered where the...

The Ministry of Interior reported that there were no serious violations of public order and peace at today's voting in the second round of the local elections. MOI spokesman Toni Angelovski said at a press conference that three cases of photographing ballots were reported, and appealed that the ballots should not be photographed as it is a violation of the...

The Citizens Association "Most" will be monitoring the second round of the local elections with more than 1,000 observers. 910 observers will be deployed at polling stations that will cover about 50% of the polling stations within each of those municipalities, in which tomorrow will be voted. "Observers from "Most" will be static, and will monitor the voting process at...

The Besa Movement and the Alliance for Albanians will run in the second round of local elections in coalition, which will take place on October 29th, the two parties announced at a press conference. They will be supported in 12 municipalities to achieve better electoral results. "We will support them in five municipalities, they will support us in seven municipalities. In...