Tag: election code

The Association of Journalists of Macedonia has reacted against the latest amendments to the Law on Audio and Audio-Visual Services (LAAS) and the Election Code, that were passed on the 4th of February in a short notice by the Parliament without prior consultations with the journalist community. "The amendments to the LAAS, that refer to Article 102 of the...

Instead of starting at 11h, as was announced this morning by the Parliament's press service, the first plenary session will start today at 15h. According to the Parliament's latest press release, the agenda will not be changed - what will happen first is the continuation of the 8th session, on which schedule are 12 points, among which is the...

The members of the State Committee for Corruption Prevention will return to work on Monday, as on Sunday their vacation ends, as was confirmed by the Committee for Meta. The Anti-Corruption Committee was at the center of political clashes when VMRO-DPMNE's MPs have filed a request from DKSK to state its opinion. The MPs claim that the parliamentary session...

With 63 affirmative votes, at Parliament this afternoon, the draft law for naming and additions at the Election Code was voted with which the local elections will be held in October, and the mandates of the mayors and the members of municipality councils have now been prolonged until the newly elected functionaries will resume their positions after the upcoming...

With a delay of half an hour with a discussion and trickery about the use of the Albanian language between the President of the Parliament, Talat Xhaferi and VMRO-DPMNE’s MPs, began the session of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia for the election of the new government, which mandatary is SDSM’s party leader, Zoran Zaev. Xhaferi has started...

According to the changes in the Electoral code from January 2014, the local elections in Macedonia, instead of the second half of March, will be held in the first half of May, but even this date may be a subject to change since the issues about the local elections are not clearly determined with the Constitution but by a...

The president of “Transparency Macedonia” (TM) Slagjana Taseva, has announced that together with the Center for Economic Analyses, starting from tomorrow, will begin to monitor how the political parties will be spending their money during the pre-election period. This project was announced in January when the early elections were set for April, but after its delay, the project was put...

According to the Election Code, the election campaign starts 20 days before the elections, and it ends 24 hours before the voting day. The campaign lasts for three weeks in order to decrease the expenditures and to pave way for equal opportunities for independent candidates. Because of that, in 2006, the election campaign for local elections was shortened from 30...