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EU: Ivanov to pursue urgent consultations with parties and determine a new mandatary
The European Union is expecting from the president of the state, Gjorge Ivanov, “to perform an urgent and open consultation” with the country’s political parties and “quickly to determine a leader for forming a government” said at a press-conference the spokesperson of the European Commission, Maja Kocijančič.
Kocijančič's statement comes after the expiration of the deadline of 20 days, during...
If they come to an agreement, the Constitution will not prevent the parties to postpone the local elections
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...
Three working days remain for a deal for a new government and prime minister to be reached
The president Gjorge Ivanov remains six days to give the mandate to “the party’s candidate or the parties that have a majority in the parliament” in order to form a new government coalition after the early parliamentary elections held on the 11th of December.
Out of these six days left for negotiations, three days are working days and the...
Ivanov asks new Government to protect the unitary character of the country
Today, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, during his traditional New Year's speech, called on the people to stop the rhetoric of division into patriots and traitors and asked for forgiveness, reconciliation and responsibility.
Ivanov said he would never agree for Macedonia to be a bi-national or federal state. He urged politicians not to think about post-election bargaining over national interests, and...
Happy government mathematics: 49+10+5+3 or 49+10+5+3+2 or 51+10+2 or 51+10+3+2?
After the State Election Commission (SEC) announced that after the revote in Tearce, the ratio of the new parliament between VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM remains 51-49, deadlines for forming a new government are ticking,while other certain combinations and mathematical formulas are taking place concerning who the figure 61 MPs.
While awaiting the official and final results, the parties from the early...
The political parties have lodged 16 complaints to SEC and SDSM and Besa have each lodged 8
16 complaints were lodged at the State Election commission that addresses the election process at the early parliamentary elections that were organized on the 11th of December including a complaint about the procedure o determining and counting the votes.
-SDSM and Besa have each lodged 8 complaints. Besa’s complaints refer to the municipalities of Arachinovo, Tetovo, Gazi Baba and...
OSCE: The elections went well, but the state will have to strengthen its institutions
The Election Day happened went well and if there are complaints, the institutions and the state will have to deal with them, as was said by the OSCE’s special representative, Roberto Battelli, during the presentation of the preliminary results concerning the election process.
In the joint statement issued by the international observers, it is stressed that the citizens have...
Today, the diaspora casts its vote and in Macedonia the sick and the prison inmates
Starting from yesterday on midnight, the election silence has started and today the voting at the early parliamentary elections that will officially happen tomorrow (11th of December) is carried out in the diaspora, and in the country, the right to cast their vote will have reported sick and frail persons, and prison inmates.
The vote is carried out for...
“Civil”: 104 citizens can not find themselves on the Electoral Roll
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...
Ivanov: On December 11, I expect the will of the people to be welcomed and recognised
"On December the 11th, I urge you all to come out and fulfill your right to vote and to fulfill your civil duty. I call on you to vote with sole discretion and to put your confidence into the party and the option you believe is the best choice for you and for the Republic of Macedonia", reads President...
IRI: The big number of undecided voters can decrease the ruling coalition’s lead
While the polls show a victory for the ruling parties VMRO-DPMNE and DUI, the widespread pessimism and the significant percentage of undecided voters that the research is indicating about, can decrease the coalition’s advantage and potentially to disrupt their relations, as is said in the pre-election observatory report by the International Republican Institute (IRI).
According to IRI, the voter turnout...
Gruevski Too Busy to Come Out on a TV Duel on MRTV and TV Telma
The leaders of the four biggest political parties Nikola Gruevski, Zoran Zaev, Ali Ahmeti, and Menduh Taci, will not have a pre-election TV duel.
These TV duels between the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI, and DPA were appointed at several TV stations but were canceled because, as announced by some of the leaders, of busyness.
The election duel between the...
Parties show no expenditures for utilities, communication and transportation services
Most of the political parties have not shown expenses for utilities and communication services, as well as expenses for transportation and transportation services, a report by "Transparency Macedonia" reported, who supervise the spending of budgets and political parties during the campaign and election process.
“Eight political parties have not shown their expenses for utilities and heating, and the same parties...
Plomp: It is Very Important How State Institutions Deal With Diversity
The LGBT rights are not part of the agenda of political parties as was indicated by the analysis of the civil society organization “Subversive Front” which was made according to the questionnaires that were sent to political parties about the coverage of LGBT problems in their platforms.
Members of “Subversive Front” have sent questionnaires to 31 political parties and have...
Parties proposed women on the lists, but gave them little chance to enter Parliament
Political parties who are running alone or who have joined coalitions in the upcoming parliamentary elections on December 11, seem to have forgotten the women MPs. Only four women found themselves as candidates on lists in the constituencies of political parties.
Radmila Sekerinska of SDSM in constituency 5, Vesna Stoimenova from the Coalition for Change and Justice in the constituency...
Brima Gallup: 43% of the Citizens Don’t Trust Any of the Politicians
If the elections we held next week, 25, 8 % of the citizens would have voted for VMRO-DPMNE, 16, 7% would have voted for SDSM, for DUI would have voted 6,5 % and for DPA- 3%, for Besa – 3,2%, 14% were indecisive, and without reply were 11, 5% of the people questioned, as was shown by the latest...
The “Bombs” have changed the rhetoric of politicians and they remain detached from reality
The wiretapped conversations, or what are widely known as the “Bombs", released by the opposition, despite bringing changes to the political scene, they have also influenced the rhetoric of politicians at campaign rallies, causing an increase during this election period of nationalistic terms and insults, analysts believe.
Terms such as "federalisation", "canonization" and "bilingualism" are just some of the terms...
The election campaign begins: Propaganda videos now on TV and banners uploaded to portals
Today political parties started their campaigns for parliamentary elections scheduled for December 11, 2016.
On television from this morning propaganda videos started up and portals have already uploaded banners from the parliamentary lists.
VMRO-DPMNE and VMRO for Macedonia will start their campaign trails in Ohrid, SDSM in Ohrid and DUI in Lipkovo.
VMRO for Macedonia will begin their campaign from tomorrow, November...
Political Rallies Are All Set: VMRO-DPMNE starts in Ohrid, SDSM in Prilep and DUI in Lipkovo
VMRO-DPMNE and VMRO for Macedonia will traditionally start its campaigns from Ohrid, SDSM from Prilep, DUI from Lipkovo and FRODEM will start at the “Kontinental” hotel in Skopje.
These are the cities from where the political parties and coalitions that will run at the parliamentary elections on the 11th of December, will start its election campaigns which will commence on...
Starting tomorrow, Taseva and Nikolov will monitor how the parties will spend the campaign funds
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...
