Tag: irregularities

The Citizens Association "Most" at their last press conference reported that in the second round of the local elections, their observers noted disrespect for the voting procedure, the presence of unauthorized individuals and photographing of ballots. At nine polling stations in the municipality of Tetovo, there was an interruption of voting as the electricity went out for over an hour,...

Last night, VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski said that his party did not recognize the local elections, where there had been numerous irregularities, attempts to make a "Bulgarian train", physical intimidation on farmers, and the administrative sector. “VMRO-DPMNE does not recognize these elections and will never consider them as fair and democratic. In addition to not recognizing them, we urgently call...

The leader of the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, voted today in Skopje. He thanked all the citizens who voted today and told them that they had protected the democracy in the Republic of Macedonia with this act and showed care for their fellow citizens and their municipalities. “I want to thank all citizens and I hope for successful elections, that...

Civil association "Most", at the start of the voting at the local elections have noticed delays in the opening of polling stations, cutting off ballots along with the books, non-functional UV lamps and photographing of ballots. Four polling stations located in the primary school "Cyril and Methodius" in the village of Zletovo, municipality Probishtip were open with a 15-minute delay...

VMRO-DPMNE announced today that is shall place "Citizen patrols that would guarantee the democracy and the citizens' will" because, as they explained, the lack of reaction on part of the state institutions. Spiro Ristovski, the president of VMRO_DPMNE's republic election headquarters, at the press conference, announced that VMRO-DPMNE's teams will be on site and will evidence all of the...

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 civil association “Most” will monitor the elections tomorrow with more than 3.000 observers which will cover 55% of the total number of polling places. -The static observers (2.664) will be monitoring the elections, the process of closing and votes counting as well as the finalizing the administrative operations by the election boards. Serving as logistics for the static observers...

Today, NGO "Civil" submitted a list of 104 individuals to the SEC, who were deleted from the Electoral Roll and sent a request so the SEC can rectify these people’s right to vote. The organization went on to say that the so-called phantom voters had not been completely deleted from the voters’ list, but they had just migrated from...

From October 15 to November 20, the civil association "Most", which monitors the pre-election period has noticed violations of the separation between state and party, pressure on the public sector, pressure to vote and the misuse of public resources. “During this period we noticed officials and public employees attending party events. There has been 43 cases in 26 municipalities. There...

Whatever the SEC does in the upcoming period, it will not be able to cleanse the voters list without the cooperation of the other relevant institutions to submit data on the voters list, say the civic association “Most”. “Most” realized that some of the problems arising in the electoral register are from the strange need for the frequent change of street...

“Most” in a statement urges the SEC to clarify the rules of accessing, changing and deleting data on the voters’ list for citizens to understand the whole procedure properly. The civil association added that after they release of a new opportunity for voters to check the voters’ list, by name and address many indications appeared which were inaccurate, but also...

The Union of Macedonian Diplomacy today at 12:05 pm, outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Skopje held a warning strike, as they say, problems have been piling up for years in this area. Union president, Sashko Todorovski, said the symbolism of this protest is clear. “Today we want to use our constitutional right to express our dissatisfaction with the situation...

The ruling VMRO-DPMNE responds to today’s bomb of Zaev regarding, as SDSM leader said, electoral irregularities. "Today Zoran Zaev continued publishing the created material received in cooperation with foreign intelligence services. While there is recognition that the wiretapping was done illegally, for which a person is already convicted and sentenced. Zaev and his supporters continue to try to manipulate the...