Tag: parliamentary elections

The German capital Berlin will have to rerun part of its botched 2021 elections for the national parliament, the country's Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday, writes German news agency DPA. The election will have to be repeated in 455 electoral districts and the corresponding postal voting districts, presiding judge Doris König said. This would amount to about a fifth of...

The numerous debates and talk-shows were mainly used by the participants as platforms for mutual personal criticism, note OSCE/ODIHR's observers in their report regarding the monitoring of national broadcasters during the election process in North Macedonia. The preliminary report also states that the newscasts of all national broadcasters monitored by the ODIHR SEAM provided superficial coverage of the campaign activities,...

The early parliamentary elections in North Macedonia were generally well run and candidates could campaign freely, but legal stability was undermined by significant revisions to the legal framework and subsequent government decrees, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) said in a statement today. "This is a very challenging time to be holding elections,...

SDSM, a ruling political party, called North Macedonia’s Election Commission (SEC) go correct its errors and present truthful electoral results to the public. “According to the results from the Electoral computer center of SDSM, the advantage of the coalition “Mozheme” (We Can) is at least three MP seats, while the data presented by SEC contains clear discrepancies and mistakes which...

Simultaneously, at the moment when the final voter turnout data for today's parliamentary elections in North Macedonia was supposed to be published, State Election Commission (SEC) web site has gone down, while the most read news aggregator in Macedonia, time.mk is under heavy DDoS attack. Neither the journalists nor the citizens can get any information about the initial election...

The Commission for voting irregularities of the Public Prosecutor’s Office concludes that the voting process of today’s snap parliamentary elections in North Macedonia was peaceful, with a small number of voting irregularities. The Commission received 24 reports of irregularities in total, but it did not find elements of felony in most of them. Three of the reports are about photographing...

The State Election Commission of North Macedonia reported that until 17:00 hours, 38.78% of the voters in the Electoral Roll cast their ballots. The biggest voter turnout was recorded in the fourth Electoral Unit, with 43.99% of the voters going to the polls in this period. North Macedonia is organizing snap parliamentary elections today. The polling stations opened at 7:00...

The acting Prime Minister, Emil Dimitriev, on today’s visit to Delchevo, repeated VMRO-DPMNE’s position that early parliamentary elections should be organized alongside the local elections, and it is the only solution for the political crisis. Dimitriev stressed that the post-electoral discussions, according to him, go deep into the constitutional order, and those weren’t part of the pre-election campaign or weren’t discussed...

The State Election Commission (SEC) will put the electoral roll for public inspection 15 days after the announcement of the early parliamentary elections, said the State Election Commission for sdk.mk. That way, the SEC says, as well as all other citizens with the right to vote, the unregistered voters among the 30,580 remaining disputed voters, will be able to apply...

The Greek people have decided to give a second chance to political party SYRIZA and its government. According to the first official results of the 21 percent of votes counted, SYRIZA are leading with 35.4 percent of the vote, New Democracy with 28.2 percent. The difference between the two parties is expected to be more than 7 percent. Dora Bakoyannis...