27 March 2016
The State Election Commission at its next session will discuss the possibility of publishing all inconsistent entries on the official website of the SEC, to make the process more transparent. The SEC also said there were intensive preparations for the commencement of field checks on disputed voters from the Voters’ List. “We have finished printing all necessary […]
20 March 2016
The State Election Commission (SEC) yesterday decided to conduct a field check of 111,440 questionable voters. An additional administrative check will be done on 62,837 people and if necessary, and this group of voters will go through a field check. 35,859 voters will go through an administrative data check who are believed to be most […]
4 March 2016
A string of irregularities have been discovered while citizens were checking their personal data on the voters’ list through the web application which has been available since yesterday on the official website of the State Election Committee. Citizens have turned to the social networks, saying that people they do not know are registered as living […]
17 February 2016
There are no conditions for fair elections on April 24 of this year, said today at a press conference the Chairman of the civic association “Most”, who were presented with the report of the monitoring of the pre-election period from November 1 to December 31 last year. “ If there were delays in January with […]
27 January 2016
We will withdraw our objections we have for the methodology of the renewal of the voters’ list, if VMRO-DPMNE agree to accept the proposals from the International Community to reform the media, said Damian Manchevski from SDSM. “If this is not acceptable to VMRO-DPMNE, then they really do not want to hold fair and democratic […]
21 January 2016
There is no sense anymore that the parties want to continue to work together and try to achieve common goals, said Belgian facilitator about negotiations regarding the Przhino Agreement, Peter Vanhoutte before today’s meeting of the working groups in the MPs Clubhouse that started around 18:00. Mr Vanhoutte indicated that the main reason for this […]
11 January 2016
MEPs Richard Howitt, Ivo Vajgl and Eduard Kukan today declined to give any statements or comments after their meeting with SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, saying that they will make a statement tomorrow once they have finished all meetings, with all leaders. The Brussels trio had a meeting at the SDSM headquarters and then headed to the […]
11 January 2016
MEPs Richard Howitt, Ivo Vajgl and Eduard Kukan today at noon will start meetings with representatives of the political parties who are signatories of the Przhino Agreement, announced the EU delegation in Skopje. During the visit, the MEP threesome, along with the EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, who brokered the Agreement, will also meet with the […]
15 December 2015
Belgian facilitator Peter Vanhoutte welcomed today’s agreement for the experts in the SEC. “I am very pleased to inform you that the leaders of the political parties have reached an agreement on the SEC. I hope that very soon we will start working to elect a Secretary General. I can say that all parties were […]
15 December 2015
The party leaders who have all signed the Przhino Agreement, in a joint written statement welcomed today’s agreement on the full composition of the SEC and called on Parliament to appoint Redzep Prekopuca, Atanas Urumov and Aleksander Chicakovski as independent experts in the SEC. “We invite Parliament to finalize the necessary procedures as quickly as […]
15 December 2015
US Ambassador Jess Bailey and UK Ambassador Charles Garrett through social network “Twitter” welcomed the appointment of the experts in the SEC. “Important step in agreement for the final three members of the State Election Commission. Its first task is the appointment of a professional Secretary General. Lots of works ahead. I urge the government,civil […]
6 December 2015
The parties are having problems agreeing on the names of the experts who should be part of the chairman at the SEC. “Meta” has learnt that all members – experts that have been discussed, were either close to the government or to the opposition, which contradicts the impartiality of the Commission. From sources close to […]
23 September 2015
“An interesting meeting,” was the brief comment of the facilitator of the negotiations the parties signed in the Przhino Agreement, Peter van Houte, about today’s talks discussing the situation in the media. At the beginning of the meeting, Richard Bailey a media expert gave a presentation on the situation in the British Broadcasting Service “BBC […]
26 August 2015
Today we discussed election laws and I must say that there is serious progress, said the Belgian expert Peter van Haute following the meeting of the Action groups. He said that the talks in the past few days were productive and constructive and that the negotiators made effort to reach a result. Van Haute said […]
25 August 2015
The Action groups formed by representatives of the biggest political parties, signatories of the Przhino Agreement, will resume their meetings today in order to find a solution about the contentios points related to the early elections coming in April. As Meta previously reported, the big political parties agreed on the election of members of 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. […]
17 August 2015
The first meeting of the Action groups following their summer vacation has ended. The representatives of the political parties did not give statements, nor did they comment whether they have made any progress. The supposed topic of today’s talks was the State Elections Commission and the Electoral Law. SDSM sent Cvetanka Ivanova and Damjan Manchevski […]
17 August 2015
Following the summer vacation break, the Action groups of the political parties who signed the Przhino Agreement have returned to the negotiating table. Meta finds out, the topic of today’s talk is the State Elections Commission and the Electoral Laws. SDSM sent Cvetanka Ivanova and Damjan Manchevski as their representatives. VMRO-DPMNE has Nikola Poposki and […]
30 July 2015
“It was requested from the Macedonian political party and EU representatives that the State Elections Commission (DIK) is completely depoliticized, which means that the parties can not propose, at least publically, their own candidates. We also requested the capacity of the DIK to be strengthened with at least three professionals- experts, who are judges at […]
