Tag: electoral irregularities

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...

VMRO-DPMNE was punished by their voters because recently, the party had distanced itself from traditional policies and tried to appeal to "others", said opposition party leader, Nikola Gruevski in an interview on "Alfa" TV last night. “VMRO-DPMNE was punished by traditional voters who sent a message to the leadership. We have had a traditional policy in the past 15 years,...

The president of the NGO “Civil”, Xhabir Deralla said at a press conference this morning that the beginning of election day started peacefully, with a number of minor irregularities, that is, technical problems faced by the electoral boards. He pointed out that yesterday, there had been more than 20 violations of the pre-election silence in Veles, Resen, Skopje, Stip, Tetovo...

The leader of SDSM, Zoran Zaev, has been summoned for questioning today at 12:00 pm by the Public Prosecution in connection with the investigation into the misuse of finances in the election campaign, reported the media. Apart from Zaev, according to information from the media, others from the party will also face questioning. SDSM confirmed that they had received a summons...

Special Public Prosecutor Katica Janeva, today in a statement clarified her previous statement about her comment on the legitimacy of the institutions, and claims it was aimed at pointing out the importance of the SPP’s investigations on "the role of fair and democratic elections, and in building institutions and their legitimacy", it was not aimed at "demoting state institutions". "As I...

The Public Prosecutor, Marko Zvrlevski, has come to a decision to form a Temporary Commission to trace possible election irregularities and fraud which could be committed during the organization and implementation of the elections which are scheduled for June 5, announced this afternoon the Public Prosecution. In the announcement it stated that the Members of the Commission, will be made up...

Tomorrow the Constitutional Court has a session scheduled for 9:00 am, and as the third item on the agenda are the amendments for amnesty, where the President of the country will be able to pardon persons convicted of electoral fraud, it said on the website of the court. With the amendments made in 2009, the President can not pardon persons convicted...

At the next session of the State Election Commission (SEC), Nikola Rilkovski, commission chairman, will initiate proceedings to dismiss Kosta Mitrovski, president of the Municipal Election Commission in Centar, who, in one of the conversations released by SDSM, tells the Minister of Transport and Communications Mile Janakieski how he managed to extract four electoral lists. In a statement after today's...

Party for total emancipation of Roma (PCER) tomorrow at 11.30 am will hold a peaceful protest march which will start from the parking lot near the sports hall "Kale". Participants will go to the government building, where several activists, including President of PCER Samka Ibraimovski, will address the crowd and the general public. Also, new audio recordings - "bombs" relating...