Tag: election campaign

With the presidential elections in the Republic of North Macedonia fast approaching, the election campaign intensifies, as the scope of the disinformation promulgated in the public, formed into the so called “fake news”, increases. The term “fake news” is widely used nowadays, mostly to delegitimize news that is completely accurate, but disliked by the person classifying them as fake. Here,...

Today, in Prilep, the leader of SDSM and Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his party’s campaign - municipal debates. The first one opened today at noon in the town under Markovite Kuli (Marko’s Towers) and said that by doing this, the campaign of SDSM and the coalition receives "a new modern style and format". “I am glad that today, we...

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, met with Hungarian Prime Minister and leader of the ruling party, Viktor Orbán, and the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party, Janez Janša, in Ohrid today. Gruevski informed the leaders of the sister parties about the course of the election campaign for the local elections. He estimated the campaign as having gone through a...

The Special Prosecutor's Office in the indictment for the “Titanic” case are asking the leader of VMRO-DPMNE and former Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski, the former chief of his cabinet, Martin Protoger, the current MP of VMRO-DPMNE in Parliament, Ilija Dimovski and the accused Leko Ristovski to confiscate assets worth 2.2 million euros. This sum, according to the SPO, corresponds to...

Austrian Foreign Minister, Sebastian Kurz’s appearance at the VMRO-DPMNE central rally in Skopje, on Sunday, came too late and was bad compensation to the Macedonian authorities for closing the Macedonian-Greek border and stopping the flow of migrants into Austria and to Western Europe, wrote Vienna newspaper "Der Standard". “Many have asked themselves in recent months: "What did the Macedonian government...

Today political parties started their campaigns for parliamentary elections scheduled for December 11, 2016. On television from this morning propaganda videos started up and portals have already uploaded banners from the parliamentary lists. VMRO-DPMNE and VMRO for Macedonia will start their campaign trails in Ohrid, SDSM in Ohrid and DUI in Lipkovo. VMRO for Macedonia will begin their campaign from tomorrow, November...

If the parties do not change their minds, and do not postpone the elections again, then on October 12, Parliament will be dissolved and elections will be formally announced, followed by the election campaign officially commencing on November the 21st, 2016. According to the Electoral Code, the election campaign should begin 20 days before election day, and in the first...