Tag: local elections

The pro-Russian party "United Macedonia" says that that its bad results at the last local elections in North Macedonia, among other things, are due to their "self-sacrifice" and support of VMRO-DPMNE's candidates. As was announced by the party, the party resident Janko Bachev had a meeting with the 33 election lists leaders and had discussions about the election results and...

In the runoff local elections in North Macedonia on Sunday, only two female candidates won enough votes to be elected mayors. The remaining 79 municipality mayor's posts were taken by men. The exceptions are the future mayor of the capital Skopje, Danela Arsovska, who as an independent candidate was supported by the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, and Zhaklina Jovanovska of...

Identically to the first round of the local elections in North Macedonia, in the runoff elections yesterday, the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE got most of the mayoral posts - it won 20 municipalities. According to the first unofficial results from the State Election Commission, VMRO-DPMNE has won the mayoral posts in Pehchevo, Novo Selo, Kochani, Vasilevo, Konche, Radovish, Makedonska Kamenica, Kratovo,...

Zoran Zaev, the incumbent prime minister of North Macedonia yesterday in a late night press conference resigned from his prime ministerial post and also from the post of the president of the SDSM political party, after the defeat of his party in the second round of the local elections. However, he remains adamant that early parliamentary elections are not...

The respondents in the poll by the Macedonian Center of International Cooperation (MCMC) are divided when it comes to trusting the mayors of the municipalities where they live. More than half (50,6%) said that they trust the mayors, but 47,5% said they don't. The ethnic Albanians (74,3%) and the members of other communities (59,1%) stressed that they have great...