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Elections in North Macedonia: 38.78% of the voters in the Electoral Roll cast their ballots until 17:00 hours
The State Election Commission of North Macedonia reported that until 17:00 hours, 38.78% of the voters in the Electoral Roll cast their ballots. The biggest voter turnout was recorded in the fourth Electoral Unit, with 43.99% of the voters going to the polls in this period.
North Macedonia is organizing snap parliamentary elections today. The polling stations opened at 7:00...
Last day of the campaign, the election silence starts from midnight
The presidential candidates Stevo Pendarovski and Gordana Siljanovska - Davkova and their teams will have a time limit until midnight to convince the voters to give them their vote in the second round of the presidential elections on Sunday.
The electoral silence will start on midnight and until 19h on Sunday when all political campaigning will be banned.
The...
Analysis: Ethnic Albanian votes will elect the president in the second round
The first round of the presidential elections held last Sunday left the ruling coalition shaken, with one of the lowest turnouts and other plebiscitary forms in independent Macedonia. The candidate of the ruling coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, is slightly leading the vote count ahead of his main opponent, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, i.e. he is advancing to the run-off with only 4.486...
904.066 votes for victory in the first round of the elections
At the presidential election, whose first round will be held this Sunday, 1.808.131 citizens can cast their vote. According to Article 81 of the Constitution, a victory in the first round by one of the three candidates - Blerim Reka, Gordana Siljanovska - Davkova and Stevo Pendarovski - can be achieved only by winning the majority of votes out...
Analysis: The presidential race begins – the outcome, uncertain
At the end of the SDSM Congress on March 3rd, the three candidates for the presidency of the Republic of North Macedonia became clear and were confirmed for the first time in the recent history of the country, as so-called 'consensus candidates'. Names are known, dates as well, but what is yet unknown, for many reasons, is when the country...
Mickoski: Zaev doesn’t need to prepare for early elections, but political retirement
Zoran Zaev does not need to prepare for early elections, but for retirement from the politics, VMRO-DPMNE leader told a journalist while answering a question regarding Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's statement, that he expects MPs from VMRO-DPMNE to respect the decision of the people in the referendum, otherwise face early parliamentary elections.
Mickoski did not specifically say whether VMRO-DPMNE will...
SEC: 28.83% turnout on referendum at 17 o’clock
The State Election Commission has reported that by 17 o'clock pm, 455,771 citizens voted, or 28,83% of the total number of registered voters on the Voters' List.
In the Municipality of Aerodrom, the turnout was 29.6%, Aracinovo 38.3%, Berovo 29.95%, Bitola 28.13%, Bogdanci 30.45%, etc.
The SEC reported that all complaints that had been submitted to them were rejected as there...
VMRO DPMNE accuse SDSM of pressures while SDSM say voting was democratic
VMRO-DPMNE's spokesperson, Naum Stoilkovski, has accused SDSM of "electoral crime in an organized manner". He also said that "SDSM has violated the election silence and has directed voters on how to vote".
"During yesterday and today, text messages were sent from this number 071/290-116. The public prosecutor's office will have to act immediately and determine who is the owner of...
Shehu: Voting in embassies abroad is too expensive, expats should come and vote here
Twenty minutes into the first session of the new State Election Commission (SEC), agitated journalists interrupted the session due to the poor consecutive translation from Albanian to Macedonian.
Vice-President of the SEC, Ditmire Sehu said that voting in embassies abroad is too expensive and invited all citizens with temporary residence abroad to come and vote in Macedonia.
Earlier, at the beginning...
Parties submitted 103 complaints to the SEC concerning the second round of local elections
Political parties submitted 103 complaints to the State Election Commission for the second round of the local elections, SEC spokesperson Ljupka Guguchevska told “Meta”.
The most complaints have been filed by Besa - even 89. The Alliance for Albanians filed 13 complaints and one complaint was filed by NDM.
The SEC has a 48 hour deadline to respond to the complaints.
“Complaints...
“Civil”: There is no evidence of VMRO-DPMNE’s allegations of bribing voters
"Civil" observers did not discover any cases that would confirm VMRO-DPMNE's allegations of bribing voters which allegedly occurred before the first round of local elections on October 15th.
"Civil Media" writes, such allegations made by VMRO-DPMNE, such as bribery of voters, were part of a document that the leader of the party, Nikola Gruevski, submitted to representatives of the international...
The Government: the citizens have accomplished another victory for democracy
Citizens of Republic of Macedonia have won another victory for democracy. Freely, on basis of free political conviction and free will, they went to cast their votes at the Local elections 2017 and they fulfilled their right guaranteed by the Constitution, stated the Government of Republic of Macedonia in the turnout of the elections, where SDSM and DUI, which...
SEC: Voter turnout until 13:00h is at 27.11%
At its second press conference, The State Election Commission informed that until 13:00h, the voter turnout was at 27.11% on the level of the whole state.
The voter turnout in Skopje was 29.17 %.
In municipality of Aerodrom the voter turnout was 35.60, in Bitola 28,85 %, in Butel 28,44 %, in Veles 30,72 %, Gazi Baba 29,34 %,...
VMRO-DPMNE accuses SDSM of wanting to use violence to get to power
At the party press conference, Nikola Spuzov, a member of VMRO-DPMNE's Executive Committee, accused SDSM of trying to win an election result with brutal violence and with the participation of criminals, and also by abusing state capacities.
“The state and the institutions have already been completely captured. People who spoke so much of democracy, have now abolished it in the...
Russian FM: There should not be any external influence on the formation of the new Government
"We urge all political parties in Macedonia to respect the will of the voters, to act solely under the Constitution and avoid external counterproductive influences on the formation of the new cabinet", commented the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with the early parliamentary elections in Macedonia.
"We believe that Macedonian politicians are aware of the responsibility...
Chichakovski: Voter turnout throughout constituencies is around 11%
Polling stations opened on time, voting has been running smoothly and for now there is no information on any major irregularities, reported the President of the State Election Commission, Aleksandar Chichakovski at a press conference in the SEC.
Throughout constituencies until 10:00 am, voter turnout is around 11%. On a national level the turnout so far is 9.49%.
“Turnout in Constituency...
Reports flood into “Civil” of violations of the pre-election silence and pressure on voters
Civil organization "Civil" has reported that since the start of the pre-election silence until 14:00 pm today, they have had about thirty reports from election observers, as well as dozens of applications from citizens of violations of the pre-election silence and pressure on voters.
“Employees from a Skopje municipality are currently organizing calls to voters and are agitating and pressuring...
“Civil”: The pressures over citizens keep on mounting with more than170 reported cases
During the period between the 5th and the 8th of December, the organization “Civil” received more than 600 calls from citizens that were worried whether they will have the opportunity to cast their vote at the early parliamentary elections set for Sunday the 11th of December, as was announced by the organization.
Today at 13.00 h, “Civil” is going to...
Today at the SEC, 325 members will vote for the electoral boards
Today, at the premises of the State Election Commission (SEC), for the early parliamentary elections on Sunday, December 11, members will vote on electoral board members who will conduct the voting at diplomatic and consular missions and consular offices of the Republic of Macedonia.
Voting will begin at 7:00 am and will last until 19:00 pm, and 325 members of...
SEC: Voters’ list certificates will contain photographs of voters
The State Election Commission has announced today that all necessary legal measures were taken for meeting all the deadlines for carrying out the election processes, including the technical-organizational measures for prevention of eventual inconsistencies within the process.
"The ballots and the certificates from the voting list are in a phase of being prepared for printing along with other confidential election material...
