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With 62 votes in favor, Parliament of North Macedonia elects new Government led by Zoran Zaev

With 62 votes for, the Parliament of North Macedonia last night elected the new government led by Zoran Zaev. The session was attended by 115 MPs out of whom 113 MPs cast their vote. 51 MPs voted against the new government's cabinet. In his address before the voting for the new executive power center, mandatary Zoran Zaev said that the...

New parliament of North Macedonia convenes on August 4th

Talat Xhaferi, North Macedonia Parliament's incumbent Speaker signed the Decree for first session of the new parliament in the Grand Hall (popularly known as the Great Dome Hall. The first session of the new composition of the parliament will be according to the protocols of the Commission for Infectious Diseases of North Macedonia, to avoid contagions with the new coronavirus. Journalists...

Prosecution raids the State Election Commission to investigate the acquisition of the software

The offices of the State Election Commission (SEC) of North Macedonia were raided by the Basic Public Prosecution for Organized Crime, which investigates whether there was a felony during the tendering procedure for the acquisition of this institution's software. During the raid, the tender documentation was seized which will help to determine whether the legal procedures were observed during...

Sela and Gashi call against recognizing DUI’s legitimacy as representatives of the Albanians

During yesterday’s “March for Democracy” in Skopje, the coalition of the Alliance of the Albanians (AA) and the Alternative stated that DUI is not the winner at these elections and it has no legitimacy to represent the Albanian nation in North Macedonia. Both parties’ leaders, Zijadin Sela and Afrim Gasha in their addressing during the march to the EU’s delegation...

Skopje with biggest drop in voter turnout, VMRO-DPMNE’s coalition has 1.660 votes more than “Mozheme” coalition (Infographic)

There was a low voter turnout in Skopje in the parliamentary elections in North Macedonia that took place on the 15th of July, but also a narrow election race between the two main competitors - the SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE-led coalitions. Is it because of the dissatisfaction with the political parties' work or the fear of catching COVID-19? These are...

Final unofficial results by North Macedonia’s SEC – SDSM with 2 MP seats more than VMRO-DPMNE

The president of the State Election Commission (SEC) of North Macedonia, Oliver Derkoski, at the public meeting of the SEC, held about 22 hours after the end of the voting process in the early parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, tonight announced the final unofficial results. The numbers of MP seats won by the political parties who participated in the...

Inkluziva Association: Numerous irregularities during voting process for persons with disabilities

Association Inkluziva's observers reported irregularities concerning the access to polling stations and the voting process for persons with disabilities. Non-observance of the protocols for protection against COVID-19 was also noticed at today's snap parliamentary elections in North Macedonia. "At 15 polling stations, members of election boards were noticed either not wearing face masks and gloves or improperly wearing them, at...

Elections in North Macedonia: Police intervened for a fight and photographing of ballots

During today's snap parliamentary elections in North Macedonia, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has registered several voting irregularities and offenses throughout the country. The police have registered voters taking photographs of the ballots at polling stations No. 0537 in Debar, 0755 in the village of Osoj, municipality of Kichevo, and 2909 in Skopje. These people will be fined accordingly,...

IRI: A majority of citizens are more orientated to the West

Residents of the country, as well as residents of Serbia and BiH, do not feel like they belong to neither the East or the West, but largely prefer western alliances, a new survey by the International Republican Institute (IRI) showed. However, people are happier for further greater engagement with the West, which connects the population in the Western Balkans to...

Are Albanians to blame for Serbia’s bad performance at Eurovision?

Serbian fact-checking project "Raskrivanje" has carried out a thorough check into the nebulous claims made by the Serbian daily newspaper "Alo", which accused Fjolla Ismaili, a Macedonian jury member in the selection of the Eurovision song, of somehow to blame because the Macedonia jury did not award any points to Serbian representative Nevena Bozovic. "This jury left Serbia without any...

Siljanovska: The political winter in Macedonia will come to an end with a new sun

The presidential candidate that enjoys the support of VMRO-DPMNE< Gordana Siljanovska - Davkova is expecting to become the 5th president of Republic of Macedonia. After the voting, she stated that "finally the political winter in Macedonia will come to an end with a new sun." -I think that the target I was aiming at was reached i.e. the citizens for whom...

Pendarovski is expecting a more decisive win

I'm expecting an even more decisive win in the second round, because the people that stayed at home during the first round or those that voted for the other candidate Reka, who ended his run in the first round of the elections, I'm expecting a part of those voters to come out at the polling stations and to cast...

MOST: First round of voting passes in a fair and democratic atmosphere

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The first round of voting passed in a fair and democratic atmosphere. Citizens again took part in an electoral process where they could express their will freely. On election day, there were only a few isolated cases of irregularities recorded, which did not affect the quality of the election process and were addressed adequately by the authorities, announced Citizen's...

SEC has determined the order of the presidential candidates on the ballot

Today, a draw was held at the State Election Commission for the order to be determined of the presidential candidates on the ballot. The candidate of the Albanian opposition Blerim Reka will be first on the ballot, VMRO-DPMNE's candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, will be second, while third on the list will be SDSM and its coalition partners' candidate...

New amendments to Constitution published in the “Official Gazette”

Amendments from 33 to 36, together with Constitutional Law on their proclamation, which were voted in with 81 votes, were adopted at the 75th session of Parliament, on Friday, and were published in the 6th issue of the "Official Gazette" this year, i.e. on January 12, 2019. With these amendments to the Constitution, after the Prespa Agreement comes into force,...

Bulgarian and Serbian media prematurely change the name of Macedonia

While reporting on Saturday and yesterday about the vote in Macedonian Parliament, where four constitutional amendments were adopted, which, among other things, Macedonian MPs accepted the change of the name of the Republic of Macedonia, most of the media and some news agencies in neighboring Bulgaria and Serbia, wrote headlines and in part of the texts that Macedonia was...

Spasovski: What happened on the 27th of April will not happen again

Moments before the final adoption of the constitutional changes is expected, and during tense protests in front of Parliament, Minister of Internal Affairs Oliver Spasovski today from Radovish would not directly answer the question whether an escalation of events is possible, as on April 27, 2017, when the protesters stormed Parliament and several MPs and journalists were brutally beaten. "The...

Constitutional amendments were passed with 81 votes

With 81 votes in favor and no votes against or withheld, this evening, MPs have cast their votes at Parliament i.e. the amendments from 33 to 35, which are Macedonia's obligation according to the Prespa Agreement that was signed on the 17th of June last year. Previously, the Alliance of the Albanians and BESA's MPs withdrew their amendments. According to Constitutional...

Afrim Gashi’s BESA: We shall vote in favor of the constitutional amendments

BESA's three MPs that are part of the wing that recognizes Afrim Gashi as a president, but not Biljal Kasami, will vote in favor of the constitutional amendments. Gashi announced that they are determined in favor of the Euro-integrations and will support the constitutional amendments in order to meet the conditions determined by the Prespa Agreement. This is of high...

Agreement reached with Kasami’s Besa on constitutional changes

An agreement has been reached with Bilal Kasami’s wing of BESA, to vote on the constitutional changes, a spokesman for SDSM Kostadin Kostadinov said at a press conference this afternoon. He did not specify what exactly had been agreed, but stressed that it would be explained through party statements. He said that the continuation of the session to vote on constitutional changes...