Tag: election silence

The Basic Criminal Court Skopje has declared Macedonian Radio's First channel, but also the director of Macedonian Radio and Television, Marjan Cvetkovski, guilty for violation of the election silence. The court passed a sentence with fines for JRP MRT 1 in the amount of 1.800 EUR, including 200 EUR fine for Marjan Cvetkovski, who is held responsible, states the...

A video clip paid from the Republic of North Macedonia state budget in 2016, through a shady deal which is currently investigated for corruption, has been used to mobilize ethnic Macedonian voters via Facebook ads during the electoral silence between July 13 and 15, 2020. The clip titled "Pour, pour - Macedonia is a love story" („Налеј, налеј - Македонија...

A number of news sites from North Macedonia which publish in Albanian language abused, during election silence, the analysis which Portalb.mk traditionally publishes before any election in cooperation with the analyst Robert Nesimi with the aim to forecast the elections results, Portalb.mk alarms. "Although Portalb.mk published its new analysis before the election silence, at least 12 news sites, contrary to...

Government spokesman Mile Bosnjakovski said today at a press conference that the Government will undertake activities for protecting the public from fake news and misinformation through announcements on social networks in the upcoming period during the referendum silence. Any news, as Bosnjakovski announced, which is detected to be fake, misinformation or half-truth, will be appropriately identified and, as he explained,...