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SEC: We Have Full Control over the Printing of Confidential Election Material

The disinformation and the speculations that are spreading throughout the media regarding the confidential election material about allegedly 80.000 printed trial ballots, the State Election Commission has disclaimed them totally, as was said in SEC’s press release. This was a reaction after “Meta” has published that “Kiro Dandaro” print shop which is the official printer of the ballots for the...

80.000 extra ballots printed for test purposes

Printing house "Kiro Dandaro" who are officially printing the ballots for the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 11, on Saturday afternoon, printed 80,000 extra ballots to test the printing equipment , "Meta" has discovered from several sources who wish to remain anonymous. According to some sources, the case was reported to the OSCE / ODIHR. "Meta" asked them about the...

SEC: Voters’ list certificates will contain photographs of voters

The State Election Commission has announced today that all necessary legal measures were taken for meeting all the deadlines for carrying out the election processes, including the technical-organizational measures for prevention of eventual inconsistencies within the process. "The ballots and the certificates from the voting list are in a phase of being prepared for printing along with other confidential election material...

VMRO-DPMNE has spent 6 times more during the campaign than they reported

The State Election Commission has published the financial reports of the political parties from the beginning of the election campaign until the November 30th, that the parties, according to the deadline, submitted yesterday to the SEC, the State Auditor and the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption (DKSK). From the parties’ reports, the most interesting one is the financial...

Employees at a Daily Newspaper Have Tried to Blackmail a Member of SEC

The previous night, at 00.45 h, a member of SEC reported to the police in Bitola, an attempted blackmail. As the Ministry of Internal Affair has announced, yesterday at 16.33h, the member of the Commission while traveling with two other people to Bitola in order to survey the printing of the election material, received a phone call on his...

The Voters’ List is now closed, and 1.784.416 citizens have the right to vote

The State Election Commission has closed the Voters' List for the upcoming early parliamentary elections and has set out the layout of the electoral ballot. According to the Voters' List, for the elections set for the 11th of December, 1.784.416 citizens of the Republic of Macedonia will have the right to vote. The President of the SEC, Aleksandar Chichakovski announced that...

“Civil” Asks Political Parties to Reveal their Campaigns’ Source of Financing

“Civil” has stressed that in Republic of Macedonia an extremely expensive pre-election campaign is being run, and political parties do not provide information about the sources of their financing. "An expensive campaign is being led, it’s non-transparent, and no one knows where the political parties are finding finances for their campaigns. We have tried to send requests to all parties...

Political Parties Sign Code for Fair and Democratic Elections

The political parties signed today the Code for Fair and Democratic elections, in accordance with the Election Code. The president of the State Election Commission (SEC), Aleksandar Chichakovski stressed out that the elections that are fair, democratic, that observe the principles of democracy and the good governance contribute to the society’s democratic development. -All participants in the elections with their...

SEC: VMRO-DPMNE first, and Levica last on the ballot for December 11

VMRO-DPMNE will be first, DPA second, DUI - third, while SDSM will be in fourth on the ballot for parliamentary elections on December 11, decided the draw which was held today at the State Election Commission. Fifth on the ballot will be the Coalition for Change and Justice, PDP will be sixth, Uniteti - seventh, - Liberal Party – eighth,...

SEC: Election Campaign Starts on Monday

The election campaign for the early elections for MPs at the R. of Macedonia’s Parliament, set for the 11th of December this year, will start on the 21st of November, announced the State Election Commission. Representatives from the SEC also remind that starting from the day of announcing the elections until the start of the election campaign, the printed media,...

Macedonians Abroad Will Vote For the First Time in Abu Dhabi

In the upcoming early parliamentary elections, for the first time, there is going to be a polling station opened for the Macedonian diaspora in Abu Dhabi, UAE, as was decided by the State Election Commission at yesterday’s session. Due to the large numbers of voters registering from abroad, the SEC decided yesterday to open two polling station in Venice and...

SEC rejected Janko Bachev’s led NDM lists

The State Election Committee (SEC) last night rejected all seven lists by the People’s Movement for Macedonia, and this decision was voted by all nine members. The reason for rejection of all the lists are the determined major irregularities in all of the seven candidate lists i.e. there was a mismatch of signatures by the proposed candidates and a change...

Parties have been given 48 hours to remove any shortcomings from the lists

The State Election Commission yesterday reviewed the candidate lists of political parties and coalitions, and gave some of them 48 hours to correct any shortcomings. The SEC stated, the majority of their remarks are related to missing bank account details for the election campaign, certificates of proof stating that candidates have no criminal records, statements and copies of identity cards...

VMRO-DPMNE: Zaev realizes that his end is closer than he once thought

Zaev's fear is now greater than before, especially when he realized that after December the 11th, not only will SDSM be completely defeated at the elections but he will have to bear the direct and personal responsibility for everything he has done to the Republic of Macedonia, stated VMRO-DPMNE in their reaction to the written announcement by SDSM leader, Zoran...

Gruevski chooses fourth constituency to run against Zaev

The VMRO-DPMNE leader, Nikola Gruevski, tonight through his official "Facebook" profile announced that the general election battle against SDSM leader, Zoran Zaev will take place in the fourth constituency. He further stated that on December 11, together with the people, they will face Zaev with reality. The ruling VMRO-DPMNE, a few moment ago submitted to the SEC their lists of...

SEC Will Have to Confirm the Lists by Sunday at Midnight

The State Election Committee has to check and confirm the candidate lists until Sunday midnight that the political parties have submitted for the forthcoming parliamentary elections set for 11th of December i.e. 48 hours after the lists’ submissions. In case of irregularities by the members of SEC, the participants in the elections will have to remove them in a period...

Diaspora can get three MPs if all those registered vote

The registration of voters from the diaspora ends today, and according to recent information from the State Election Commission, 18,600 citizens have registered. The SEC expects by midnight during registration the number to exceed 19,000 citizens. The Commission said, however, if all those registered vote on December 11, the diaspora can get three MPs. According to the amendments to the...

People are complaining on the SOS hotline that SEC and MIO are playing ping-pong with their applications

From the day when the voters’ list was published publicly, the citizens are calling actively to point at problems in the voters list at the SOS-line used for reporting election irregularities (0800 88 888)  that is enabled by civic activists “We Decide” – as was reported by representatives of the civil initiative. "The citizens that contacted us have complained that...

OSCE/ODIHR will monitor elections with more than 300 observers

The Mission Office for OSCE for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) today officially began its observation mission for the parliamentary elections scheduled for December 11. The mission consists of a main team of 14 experts and 20 long-term observers which will be be organized throughout the country in teams of two, starting from November 9. ODIHR will ask the OSCE...

Missing stamps from SEC will be replaced with new and different ones

The stamps which are missing from the State Election Commission will be replaced with new ones, stated the SEC. They assured everyone that before the upcoming election, they will compile an inventory of all electoral materials to check what is missing and what doesn’t work, so everything can be corrected. According to the SEC, stamps are missing from polling...