Tag: SEC

"Strong local government lays the foundation for a vibrant democracy. We encourage the newly elected mayors and counselors to be open, responsive, and accountable to the citizens of their municipalities," said in this addressing the US Embassy about the local elections. The embassy states that the cooperation with the municipalities, organizations and the citizens will continue in order...

The State Election Commission (SEC) has rejected all the complaints which were submitted for voting and summarizing the results of the first round of the local elections that took place on Sunday, October 15th. A spokeswoman for the SEC, Ljupka Gugucevska told “Meta” that during their marathon session, which began yesterday at around 10:00 am, ended this morning and that...

A total of 46 complaints regarding the procedure for voting, tabulating and determining the results of the local elections, which took place on Sunday, October 15,th were submitted to the State Election Commission. Most complaints - 43, were submitted by the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, and one complaint was submitted by TMRO, the Alliance for the Albanians and the Levica Party. The deadline for submitting complaints...

The State Election Commission announced on its website the final results of the local elections which were held on Sunday, October 15th, and the mandates of the mayors who won the mayoral seats in the first round, out of 80 municipalities in Macedonia and the City of Skopje. According to the results, the mayoral candidates of the coalition led by...

VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition for a Better Macedonia, TMRO and the Alliance for Albanians are the only parties that have filed complaints to the State Election Commission regarding the procedure for voting, tabulating and determining results, said the SEC. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE filed 22 complaints in total, some of which are for the voting procedure, and part for the tabulation...

The State Election Commission will review the OSCE / ODIHR report on the local elections which were held on Sunday, October 15th, at a session and will then give their own opinion.   Ljupka Guguchevska, spokeswoman for the SEC, told "Meta" that the SEC's practice is to review all remarks and reports submitted in the local elections, and then come out with their...

According to 99.45% of counted votes and according to unofficial and incomplete data from the State Election Commission's website, SDSM has won in the first round or will have an advantage in the second circle in 50 municipalities, VMRO-DPMNE in 9 and DUI in 12 municipalities. The ruling SDSM is a winner at the elections for the first man...

At its second press conference, The State Election Commission informed that until 13:00h, the voter turnout was at 27.11% on the level of the whole state. The voter turnout in Skopje was 29.17 %. In municipality of Aerodrom the voter turnout was 35.60, in Bitola 28,85 %, in Butel 28,44 %, in Veles 30,72 %, Gazi Baba 29,34 %,...

The President f the State Election Commission (SEC), ALeksandar Chichakovski has called upon all of the participansts in the elections to secure fair and democratic elections by obeying the Constitution and the laws of Republic of macedonia. In an interview given for the state agency MIA, he stresses that tomorrow's local elections are a condition for the country's further...

The State Election Commission today began distributing confidential election material to municipal election commissions for the upcoming local elections scheduled for Sunday, October 15th. The ballot papers were printed by the Printing House Polyesterday. SEC Vice-President Redzep Prekopuca stated that the distribution was proceeding according to plan and that so far, the process has been proceeding properly. “Prior to all Municipal Election...

The civil organization Most has condemned today the violence of any kind and has called upon the participants in the elections to withhold themselves of misuse of these or similar events and the competent institutions to investigate the incidents thoroughly. The association states that during the campaign they have noticed several isolated cases of misuse of public resources mostly...

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE have spent the most money in the first 10 days of the campaign for local elections, showed the financial report conducted by the State Election Commission's. The former ruling party collected around 488.000 euros from the membership fee, while they have also recieved 47,0000 euros from 207 donators. The list of donors includes mayoral candidates Ivan Frangov,...

Starting from tomorrow, the electoral register will be made public and there are 1.816.127 voters evidenced where 11.346 citizens haven't been evidenced at all, as was announced by the State Election Committee (SEC) at today's press conference. Most of the persons that aren't evidenced in the electoral register have no residences (7.107), part of them were erased from the regional...

Today, the State Election Commission (SEC) adopted a timetable for the local elections, if elections are to be held on October the 15th, the second round will be on October the 29th, while political parties should submit their lists of candidates by September the 9th, the latest. The voter list will be open to the public by August the 21st...

Last year's parliamentary elections marked the beginning of the end of a severe institutional and political crisis, but also marked the beginning of the unblocking of the EU integration process, said Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani, before the start of the tribune dedicated to the implementation of the measures from the "3-6-9" plan,  which refer to the elections and...

The State Election Committee has issued a public call for checking the data in the electoral roll. According to the changes and the additions in the Electoral Code from 2016, each six months SEC will be summoning the citizens to check their own data. The Public insight can be done through SEC's official web page and in its local...

The disputed voters which were deleted from the electoral list for the parliamentary elections held on December the 11th, last year, will be put back on the electoral register for the local elections which will be held in May, confirmed the SEC for "Meta". At the time of the early parliamentary elections, a total of 30,447 of voters were considered...

Today, the State Election Commission handed over certificates for the received seats to the political parties’ authorized representatives. At the early parliamentary reflections, the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE won 51 MPs, the coalition led by SDSM, 49, DUI 10, Besa Movement 5, Alliance for the Albanians – 3 and DPA – 2 MP seats. The president of the SEC, Aleksandar...

Despite today’s re-vote at one polling station in the municipality of Tearce, the mandates of the political parties remain the same as during the first results from the voting on the 11th of December. VMRO-DPMNE has 51 seats, SDSM, 49 mandates, DUI has 10, Besa Movement has 5, The Alliance of the Albanians has 3 and DPA has 2...

Tomorrow at polling station 2011, at the "Kiril Pejcinovic" primary school in Tearce, people will vote again after the Administrative Court decided to annul the voting that took place at the polling station. Three days ago, the State Election Commission unanimously decided a re-vote was necessary because simulations conducted by their IT sector showed that a revote could affect the...