31 March 2022
North Macedonia has a total of 3,504 people who declared themselves Bulgarians in the census conducted last year, and whose results were announced yesterday. The number of people who reported that they usually speak Bulgarian at home is 762, or more than four times less than the number of registered Bulgarians. Also, this figure is […]
30 March 2021
During the Leaders’ meeting yesterday between Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the opposition party’s leader Hristijan Mickoski, it was agreed that the census in North Macedonia will be postponed from April to September, i.e between the 5th and 30th of September this year. This is the key issue that the leaders of the biggest political […]
29 March 2021
The self-evidencing records of the State Statistical Office show a number of 171 620 citizens of the Republic of North Macedonia that live abroad and have self-registered themselves using the electronic application since the start of this process i.e. from the 1st of March until today. “In the past 24 hours, 11 101 persons were […]
25 March 2021
The State Statistical Office -SSO of the Republic of North Macedonia – RNM informed this morning that new 6 600 RNM nationals living abroad self-registered themselves online in the census 2021. With this info, in a period of 25 days, since the census began, a total of 143.755 citizens have registered themselves through the application […]
15 March 2021
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 […]
8 March 2021
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 […]
13 January 2021
Opposition party VMRO-DPMNE announced it will not recognize the results from the census in North Macedonia if it is implemented according to the draft law for the census that entered the parliament today. Party’s president Hristijan Mickoski announced during a press conference that the party will start with collecting signatures for the adoption of a […]
21 October 2020
The Centre for Democratic Transition (CDT) from Podgorica, the leading civil society organization fostering development of democracy in Montenegro, on October 20 published an initiative not to collect data on nation, religion and language in the upcoming census. CTD proposed the initiative with an aim to improve the democratic dialogue between relevant social actors on […]
28 May 2019
At today’s session, the Government also determined the text for the Draft Law on the Census of the Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of North Macedonia for 2020. It was then submitted it to Parliament. The latest news is that the census, to be carried out in the period from April 1 to […]
10 December 2018
If the population’s census in 2020 does not take into account the ethnicity of the population, it risks failing as it did in 2011, as well as the possibility of violating the principle of the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) and the Constitution of Macedonia for equitable representation, reports “Portalb.mk”. Experts have urged political parties to […]
3 October 2018
With over 91% of votes ‘For’, voters in Macedonia have shown tremendous support to the European path and for a greater perspective of their country in the EU and NATO, said deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Johann David Wadephul. The ruling German CDU/CSU believes that the opposition must not block […]
31 July 2018
Each of us is obliged to take responsibility for the future of our country. Your vote is your right, do not let anyone take it away. I will commit to respecting the outcome of your choice, regardless of the result. This was announced by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in his address to the public, attended by all […]
1 June 2018
The population census will be conducted from 1 to 21 April in 2020. Approximately 5,000 census enumerators will be engaged in the field, and this time round, officials will use combined methods, not solely using only field data, but also data from registers. Operational costs are estimated at 8.5 million euros. This information was given […]
21 March 2018
Katica Janeva and the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office turned into caricature, because of the humility in carrying out political orders, VMRO-DPMNE said at today’s SPO press conference, where three new investigations were announced – for the annulment of the 2011 census, for Antonio Milososki and for the contract regarding construction of the Demir Kapija-Smokvica highway […]
28 February 2017
With 54 votes “for” and 8 “against,” the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament (AFET) adopted the draft – resolution for the advancement of the Republic of Macedonia in its European integrations during 2016, reports MIA. Previously, the Euro-MPs had adjusted 28 compromised amendments and today they adopted them all. All of them […]
23 February 2017
The Holy Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric (MOC-OA) has expressed great concern regarding the current situation of Macedonian society and calls for mutual respect, forgiveness, and responsibility. The Synod of the MOC, through a statement after today’s session is appealing to all political leaders to preserve the constitutional position of the Macedonian language on the […]
29 November 2016
“Macedonia is the only country in Europe without a census of the population in the last 14 years and this extremely important statistical operation does not hold any significant place in the election programs of the parties and coalitions” as was stated I the NGO Infocenter’s announcement. “An urgent priority of the new government which […]
24 August 2015
Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was bemused of the opposition’s decision to refuse the proposal for 17 additional MPs for the party that wins the next elections. -Their refusal is strange. Why would they do that if SDSM claims they are going to win- said Gruevski. Gruevski said he doesn’t see a relation between and the […]
28 July 2015
Active registration of voters, conducting a census and door to door counting, are the options that were put on the table during the Action group’s meeting, directed at implementing the Przhino Agreement. According to Cvetanka Ivanova of SDSM who was part of the Action group of this party, the participants had discussed all options but […]
