24 February 2020
The Registry of media that will provide advertising services for paid political advertising for the forthcoming parliamentary elections will evidence 242 media outlets out of which 159 are portals, 39 are radio stations, 32 are TV stations and 12 are printed media, informs the State Election Commission (SEC). The Macedonian media were obliged to submit […]
21 February 2020
The price for advertising shouldn’t be limited, but the financing of political advertising with public funds is completely unacceptable, said Dejan Georgievski, the President of the Media Development Center. The past two days, the national TV stations have reacted to State Election Committee’s (SEC) decision regarding the process for adverts for paid political informing about […]
10 February 2020
Instead of dissolving on Wednesday, the 12th of February, which was the initial deadline for the Parliament to dissolve, President Talat Xhaferri said that the last deadline will be on Sunday, the 16th of February. This was announced after Xhaferri’s consultations with the State Election Commission(SEC). Xhaferri has received a reply from SEC that in […]
22 April 2019
According to the data from 100% of the polls, provided by the State Electoral Commission (SEC), SDSM’s candidate Stevo Pendarovski has garnered 323.846 votes or 42,85% of the total number of ballots while Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate has garnered 319.240 votes or 42,24% of the ballots. Pendarovski has won in Kumanovo, Kriva Palanka, […]
19 April 2019
Macedonia is at 95th place in the latest World Press Freedom Index by “Reporters without Borders” (RWB), thus jumping 14 places compared to the previous report, about 2018. With this, Macedonia fares better than the neighboring Bulgaria, which is an EU member and is at 111th place. The Reports without Borders main objection for this […]
21 March 2019
Two days since Blerim Reka submitted his presidential candidacy with signatures of over 11.000 supporters to the State Election Commission (SEC), today the candidacies of Stevo Pendarovski and Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova were submitted as well to the SEC. Today, SDSM’s campaign staff submitted its first candidacy to the SEC. In the name of Pendarovski, […]
18 October 2018
Even though over one million and 200 thousand citizens have said no to changing the name of the country, Zaev doesn’t want to quit, and is directly violating the will of the people, said VMRO-DPMNE’s press reaction to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s statement. “During this phase, the agreement is only a legal matter and as […]
30 July 2018
The Chairman of the State Election Commission, Oliver Derkovski, Vice President Ditmir Sehhu, and members Elizabeta Postolovska, Boris Kondarko, Janake Vitanovski, Radica Risteska and Enver Saliu gave a solemn oath today to Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi. Derkovski said that, as the SEC, they will respect the laws and the Constitution and they will act and […]
26 July 2018
The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AAVMU) condemns the adopted amendments to the Electoral Codex, which were adopted yesterday in Parliament, in a shortened procedure. They claim some of the solutions are scandalous. Their first objection is about the change regarding paid political advertising, which till now it used to be paid by […]
23 July 2018
VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski reiterated that the Government has agreed to the party’s demands for a technical government, in accordance with the Prizino principle for every subsequent election, adding that he was satisfied that they had reached an agreement on the Law on Financing Political Parties that would guarantee transparency and prevent possible abuse. “We […]
11 December 2017
Chairman of the State Election Commission (SEC), Aleksandar Chichakovski confirmed to the state new agency MIA, that he has submitted his resignation. Regarding the reasons behind his resignation, Chichakovski said that it was due to personal matters. Otherwise, Chichakovski’s resignation comes after it was recently discovered that SEC members had been taking high bonuses in the […]
31 October 2017
“Strong local government lays the foundation for a vibrant democracy. We encourage the newly elected mayors and counselors to be open, responsive, and accountable to the citizens of their municipalities,” said in this addressing the US Embassy about the local elections. The embassy states that the cooperation with the municipalities, organizations and the citizens will […]
15 October 2017
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 %, […]
8 October 2017
The civil organization Most has condemned today the violence of any kind and has called upon the participants in the elections to withhold themselves of misuse of these or similar events and the competent institutions to investigate the incidents thoroughly. The association states that during the campaign they have noticed several isolated cases of misuse […]
20 August 2017
Starting from tomorrow, the electoral register will be made public and there are 1.816.127 voters evidenced where 11.346 citizens haven’t been evidenced at all, as was announced by the State Election Committee (SEC) at today’s press conference. Most of the persons that aren’t evidenced in the electoral register have no residences (7.107), part of them […]
7 August 2017
Today, the State Election Commission (SEC) adopted a timetable for the local elections, if elections are to be held on October the 15th, the second round will be on October the 29th, while political parties should submit their lists of candidates by September the 9th, the latest. The voter list will be open to the […]
26 December 2016
The State Election Commission held a press conference this evening where the president Aleksandar Chichakovski confirmed the results from the re-vote in the municipality of Tearce that were published at the Commission’s official page a few hours ago. 245 persons have voted for SDSM, for VMRO-DPMNE 149, VMRO for Macedonia has won two votes, DUI […]
25 December 2016
Despite today’s re-vote at one polling station in the municipality of Tearce, the mandates of the political parties remain the same as during the first results from the voting on the 11th of December. VMRO-DPMNE has 51 seats, SDSM, 49 mandates, DUI has 10, Besa Movement has 5, The Alliance of the Albanians has 3 […]
24 December 2016
Tomorrow at polling station 2011, at the “Kiril Pejcinovic” primary school in Tearce, people will vote again after the Administrative Court decided to annul the voting that took place at the polling station. Three days ago, the State Election Commission unanimously decided a re-vote was necessary because simulations conducted by their IT sector showed that […]
17 December 2016
Let’s not allow any provocations by anyone including the one who was constantly ruining Macedonia for 10 years. His time is over, said SDSM’s leader, Zoran Zaev on his Facebook profile. “The institutions have to perform their obligations in accordance with the Constitution and the law. It doesn’t depend on SEC and the Administrative court […]
