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Shehu: Voting in embassies abroad is too expensive, expats should come and vote here
Twenty minutes into the first session of the new State Election Commission (SEC), agitated journalists interrupted the session due to the poor consecutive translation from Albanian to Macedonian.
Vice-President of the SEC, Ditmire Sehu said that voting in embassies abroad is too expensive and invited all citizens with temporary residence abroad to come and vote in Macedonia.
Earlier, at the beginning...
SEC members mark the start of their work with an oath to Xhaferi
The Chairman of the State Election Commission, Oliver Derkovski, Vice President Ditmir Sehhu, and members Elizabeta Postolovska, Boris Kondarko, Janake Vitanovski, Radica Risteska and Enver Saliu gave a solemn oath today to Parliament Speaker, Talat Xhaferi.
Derkovski said that, as the SEC, they will respect the laws and the Constitution and they will act and do everything in their power...
Derkoski: The referendum will be organised in accordance with the Laws and Constitution
The new head of the State Election Commission (SEC) Oliver Derkoski, in a statement to MIA says that the Commission’s first action will be its constitution, and then the implementation of the referendum for the name. Derkoski, who will be heading the commission after being proposed by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, says that SEC members can not take political stances...
AAAMS: Scandalous solutions regarding the amendments to the Electoral Codex
The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AAVMU) condemns the adopted amendments to the Electoral Codex, which were adopted yesterday in Parliament, in a shortened procedure. They claim some of the solutions are scandalous.
Their first objection is about the change regarding paid political advertising, which till now it used to be paid by the parties and candidates from...
SEC’s new structure and laws were adopted that previously were agreed at leaders’ meeting
This afternoon, without explanation or discussion, Parliament has chosen the new structure for the State Election Commission (SEC) and the amendments to the laws that were agreed at leaders’ meeting on Monday.
The SEC’s members were elected with 100 votes "for" without anyone reported.
Oliver Derkovski from VMRO-DPMNE has been chosen to be the chairman of the Commission, and as vice-president...
Agreed terms from Leaders’ Meeting yet to be implemented in Parliament
The Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia did not hold a session which was announced yesterday, where leaders were meant to agree on the election of members of the State Election Commission, amendments to the laws for financing political parties and to organize future technical governments before elections in accordance with the Przino principle.
The Parliamentary Committee on Elections and...
Mickoski: The procedure for selecting the SEC will remain the same
VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski reiterated that the Government has agreed to the party’s demands for a technical government, in accordance with the Prizino principle for every subsequent election, adding that he was satisfied that they had reached an agreement on the Law on Financing Political Parties that would guarantee transparency and prevent possible abuse.
“We agreed to stop and withdraw...
Bosnjakovski: The leadership meeting can allow for the establishment of the SEC
Amendments regarding the Election Codex that already exist within the parliamentary system, by which the election of members to the State Election Commission (SEC) would be carried out with a majority by 61 MPs, instead of the usual two-thirds majority as before, will enter the system if at tomorrow’s leadership meeting a political census is not reached for the...
Government submitted to Parliament a proposal for the SEC to vote with 61 votes
The amendments should be adopted in a shortened procedure, according to preliminary information, the aim is that SEC’s members, instead of a two-thirds majority, should be elected with an absolute majority, i.e. 61 votes.
There is no further information whether the same SEC model remains i.e. it was adjusted by the SDSM with the opposition, and according to the VMRO-DPMNE,...
Conditioning from the opposition is adolescent, says Zaev about the establishment of SEC
The debate over the referendum and all issues related to it, including the establishment of the State Electoral Commission (SEC), will begin at the end of this month, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said in response to a journalist’s question.
“The fact that the opposition has forced the government to negotiate the founding of the SEC shows how adolescent the process...
Zaev: Ballot question for referendum will be known after NATO invitation
Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that the ballot question for the referendum is still unknown, and added that the parties and the civil sector will determine whether the referendum will be a consultative or binding referendum, but that in any case the result will be mandatory.
“We have not discussed this issue. Probably, we are waiting for integrations to...
The Parliament confirmed SEC members’ resignations
At today's plenary session, the Parliament speaker, Talat Xhaferri, confirmed that the SEC members' mandates are ended after they handed over their resignations.
He didn't announce when and how will the procedure for electing new members of SEC continue.
Their resignations occurred after the public's pressure when the US Ambassador revealed that at a closed session the members decided...
Zaev believes that through dialogue, he will persuade the opposition back to Parliament
Today, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev did not want to announce whether the meeting with the coalition partners on the filling of vacant ministerial posts, including that of the Ministry of Health, was held last night.
Zaev said that as soon as there is a resolution for new members in the government, the public will be told.
“You know that there are...
Chichakovski and SEC members have handed in their resignations
Chairman of the State Election Commission (SEC), Aleksandar Chichakovski confirmed to the state new agency MIA, that he has submitted his resignation.
Regarding the reasons behind his resignation, Chichakovski said that it was due to personal matters.
Otherwise, Chichakovski’s resignation comes after it was recently discovered that SEC members had been taking high bonuses in the last round of elections. An internet...
The indictment in the Titanic case accepted, Mijalkov and Tacci are the accused ones
The Council for indictment evaluation at the Basic Court Skopje 1 accepted the SPO's indictment for the Titanic 2 case regarding election rigging.
The following people were charged in this case: the former UBK's Head, Sasho Mijalkov, DPA's party leader Menduh Tacci, VMRO-DPMNE's member at SEC, Sasho Srcev, including former members of SEC, Bedredin Ibraimi and Aneta Stefanovska and Vlatko...
Bosnjakovski: The public are right to react, but the Government cannot intervene with the SEC;s budget
"The State Election Commission (SEC) is an independent institution and the government can not interfere with how the commission organizes its budget. We are aware that both the media and the public have reacted violently to the decisions of the SEC members to grant themselves bonuses, but as for the Government, it does not have the authority to intervene....
SEC: We have been falsely accused but we will donate funds from the extra salaries
During today's session, the State Election Commission concluded that the decision for the payment of compensations to the members and the employees of SEC for their work at the local elections, was made in accordance with the Election Code and the Rule Book.
SEC also decided that each employee and member of SEC should decide individually about returning the funds...
SEC: The law allows us to pay additional salaries, but tomorrow we will return them
Decisions on the reimbursement of SEC employees are carried out on the basis of the law, but also on the basis of the responsibility, complexity and scope of the work tasks and on the basis of the reports for the work of the election administration, the reaction of the SEC is said, after the ambassador of the United States...
Baily: I heard that members of the SEC secretly voted for four additional salaries
US Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess Baily at today's lecture on the fight against corruption held at the University for Security in Skopje, said that he had heard that members of the State Election Commission behind closed doors, unanimously voted to receive four additional salaries after the local elections in October this year, reports the portal "Nova TV".
“I heard that...
Parties submitted 103 complaints to the SEC concerning the second round of local elections
Political parties submitted 103 complaints to the State Election Commission for the second round of the local elections, SEC spokesperson Ljupka Guguchevska told “Meta”.
The most complaints have been filed by Besa - even 89. The Alliance for Albanians filed 13 complaints and one complaint was filed by NDM.
The SEC has a 48 hour deadline to respond to the complaints.
“Complaints...
