13 December 2016
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 […]
10 December 2016
“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 […]
11 November 2016
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 […]
26 October 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 […]
29 July 2016
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, […]
1 July 2016
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 […]
14 October 2015
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 […]
12 October 2015
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 […]
10 October 2015
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 […]
10 October 2015
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 […]
9 October 2015
“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 […]
9 October 2015
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 […]
26 September 2015
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 […]
21 September 2015
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. […]
24 August 2015
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 […]
20 August 2015
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 […]
20 August 2015
According to participants in the Action groups of the political parties that signed the Przhino Agreement, it is expected that they may reach an agreement today at the 3 o’clock meeting. The issue of the electoral list, finds out Meta, is almost concluded, but there still small disagreements about how exactly the diaspora will vote. […]
28 July 2015
The proposal for removing or further complicating the Diaspora’s right to vote is a profound disrespect to those who have continuously been making immense contributions to the economic development of Republic of Macedonia, is the reaction of the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) following the information that came from the Action group’s meeting yesterday, where a […]
