7 March 2019
At the end of the SDSM Congress on March 3rd, the three candidates for the presidency of the Republic of North Macedonia became clear and were confirmed for the first time in the recent history of the country, as so-called ‘consensus candidates’. Names are known, dates as well, but what is yet unknown, for many reasons, […]
1 October 2018
Zoran Zaev does not need to prepare for early elections, but for retirement from the politics, VMRO-DPMNE leader told a journalist while answering a question regarding Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s statement, that he expects MPs from VMRO-DPMNE to respect the decision of the people in the referendum, otherwise face early parliamentary elections. Mickoski did not […]
30 September 2018
The State Election Commission has reported that by 17 o’clock pm, 455,771 citizens voted, or 28,83% of the total number of registered voters on the Voters’ List. In the Municipality of Aerodrom, the turnout was 29.6%, Aracinovo 38.3%, Berovo 29.95%, Bitola 28.13%, Bogdanci 30.45%, etc. The SEC reported that all complaints that had been submitted […]
30 September 2018
VMRO-DPMNE’s spokesperson, Naum Stoilkovski, has accused SDSM of “electoral crime in an organized manner”. He also said that “SDSM has violated the election silence and has directed voters on how to vote”. “During yesterday and today, text messages were sent from this number 071/290-116. The public prosecutor’s office will have to act immediately and determine […]
1 August 2018
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 […]
1 November 2017
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 […]
27 October 2017
“Civil” observers did not discover any cases that would confirm VMRO-DPMNE’s allegations of bribing voters which allegedly occurred before the first round of local elections on October 15th. “Civil Media” writes, such allegations made by VMRO-DPMNE, such as bribery of voters, were part of a document that the leader of the party, Nikola Gruevski, submitted […]
16 October 2017
Citizens of Republic of Macedonia have won another victory for democracy. Freely, on basis of free political conviction and free will, they went to cast their votes at the Local elections 2017 and they fulfilled their right guaranteed by the Constitution, stated the Government of Republic of Macedonia in the turnout of the elections, where […]
15 October 2017
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 %, […]
29 September 2017
At the party press conference, Nikola Spuzov, a member of VMRO-DPMNE’s Executive Committee, accused SDSM of trying to win an election result with brutal violence and with the participation of criminals, and also by abusing state capacities. “The state and the institutions have already been completely captured. People who spoke so much of democracy, have […]
14 December 2016
“We urge all political parties in Macedonia to respect the will of the voters, to act solely under the Constitution and avoid external counterproductive influences on the formation of the new cabinet”, commented the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in connection with the early parliamentary elections in Macedonia. “We believe that Macedonian politicians […]
11 December 2016
Polling stations opened on time, voting has been running smoothly and for now there is no information on any major irregularities, reported the President of the State Election Commission, Aleksandar Chichakovski at a press conference in the SEC. Throughout constituencies until 10:00 am, voter turnout is around 11%. On a national level the turnout so […]
10 December 2016
Civil organization “Civil” has reported that since the start of the pre-election silence until 14:00 pm today, they have had about thirty reports from election observers, as well as dozens of applications from citizens of violations of the pre-election silence and pressure on voters. “Employees from a Skopje municipality are currently organizing calls to voters […]
9 December 2016
During the period between the 5th and the 8th of December, the organization “Civil” received more than 600 calls from citizens that were worried whether they will have the opportunity to cast their vote at the early parliamentary elections set for Sunday the 11th of December, as was announced by the organization. Today at 13.00 […]
7 December 2016
Today, at the premises of the State Election Commission (SEC), for the early parliamentary elections on Sunday, December 11, members will vote on electoral board members who will conduct the voting at diplomatic and consular missions and consular offices of the Republic of Macedonia. Voting will begin at 7:00 am and will last until 19:00 […]
5 December 2016
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 […]
10 November 2016
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 […]
24 July 2016
The website of the State Election Commission (SEC) by Tuesday, will be published the names of the 39,502 questionable voters on the electoral roll. During the last field check, they were either not found at home or there were no records found in the institutions. The SEC will prepare guidelines and an application form, and […]
23 July 2016
Last night, MPs voted, and the results were; with 92 votes “for”, three “against” and one “abstention”, with a fast track procedure, they voted for the amendments to the Electoral Code, which was submitted by MPs Ilija Dimovski from the VMRO-DPMNE party, Goran Sugareski of the SDSM, Artan Grubi from the DUI, and Imer Aliu […]
14 May 2016
Members of the State Election Commission (SEC) will request to changes the electoral code from Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanoski. The changes are required because there were discrepancies in the number of voters in three constituencies – the third, fourth and sixth. The SEC concluded that there are inconsistencies from at least five percent in the […]
