18 July 2020
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 […]
16 July 2020
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 […]
15 July 2020
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 […]
15 July 2020
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 […]
29 May 2019
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 […]
23 May 2019
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 […]
5 May 2019
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 […]
5 May 2019
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 […]
23 April 2019
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 […]
22 March 2019
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 […]
14 January 2019
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 […]
14 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
11 January 2019
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 […]
9 January 2019
SDSM’s General Secretary and an MP, Aleksandar Kiracovski at the press conference that took place today at the Parliament informed that the government has secured the support of minimum 80 MPs necessary for the passing of the constitutional amendments. -By initiating the constitutional changes, Macedonia is becoming a part of the EU and NATO. People […]
8 January 2019
After today’s meeting at the Holiday Inn hotel in Skopje between with Prime Minister and SDSM President Zoran Zaev, leader of the Alliance of the Albanians (AA), Zijadin Sela, stated that they have reached an agreement and that MPs from his party will vote for the changes to the Constitution. He said that due to the […]
4 January 2019
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev is optimistic that the required majority will be secured in Parliament for the vote on constitutional changes, but says the number of MPs will be known on the day of the vote. “We will know the final number on the day of the vote. The session is scheduled for January 9, […]
3 December 2018
With 64 votes “For”, 14 “Against” and 2 “Abstentions”, Parliament voted in the text of the third draft-amendment for changes to the Constitution envisaged in the Prespa Agreement, which stipulates that the Republic must respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of its neighbouring countries. MPs from VMRO-DPMNE pointed out that Macedonia has no […]
