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The president of the NGO “Civil”, Xhabir Deralla said at a press conference this morning that the beginning of election day started peacefully, with a number of minor irregularities, that is, technical problems faced by the electoral boards. He pointed out that yesterday, there had been more than 20 violations of the pre-election silence in Veles, Resen, Skopje, Stip, Tetovo...

Civil association "Most", at the start of the voting at the local elections have noticed delays in the opening of polling stations, cutting off ballots along with the books, non-functional UV lamps and photographing of ballots. Four polling stations located in the primary school "Cyril and Methodius" in the village of Zletovo, municipality Probishtip were open with a 15-minute delay...

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 Law for the use of languages has passed its first reading at the Parliamentary Commission for European Affairs. With 9 votes "for" and none "against" or "abstinent" out of 18 members, the MPs have accepted the conclusion that the law is acceptable from the aspect of its adjustment with the EU's legislative and that it has to be...

Ilija Dimovski, co-ordinator of one of VMRO-DPMNE’s parliamentary groups, said that Xhaferi's announcement that tomorrow Parliament will vote on the Government's proposal to dismiss Zvrlevski is "an insolent and arrogant violation of the law, and is unprecedented in Macedonia", and that "the responsibility is mostly Xhaferi’s, and the citizens see it and will punish him adequately". “It's against the law. The...

At today's plenary session, MPs voted 61 in “favour” and two votes “against”, and adopted the budget re-balance. MPs from VMRO-DPMNE, although they had participated in the five-day debate on the budget re-balance, during voting they abandoned the session. As MP Ilija Dimovski left the session, he said they were leaving the whole responsibility to the parliamentary majority. According to...

With 62 votes “for”, from a total of 111 MPs, just before midnight, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia voted for a new government led by the Prime Minister Zoran Zaev. The new government did not win the support from 44 MPs who voted “against”, and five “abstentions” from MPs from the Besa Movement. The new Prime Minister, straight...

In express proceedings, with a unanimous “for” vote, the two sessions in Parliament finished – the constitutive session and the third session, which only had one point on the agenda, for the selection of committees of Parliament. MPs from VMRO-DPMNE boycotted the constitutive session, where MPs were meant to elect a president, vice president, members and deputies for the Commission...

The NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, has greeted President Gjorge Ivanov’s decision to grant the mandate to SDSM party leader, Zoran Zaev in order to form a government. “This is a step in the right direction and the right thing to do. I encourage the swift formation of a new government, a timely confirmation vote in parliament and a constructive...

The State Election Commission held a press conference this evening where the president Aleksandar Chichakovski confirmed the results from the re-vote in the municipality of Tearce that were published at the Commission’s official page a few hours ago. 245 persons have voted for SDSM, for VMRO-DPMNE 149, VMRO for Macedonia has won two votes, DUI 1, DPA 2, the...

In Tearce, SDSM won 170 votes more than on the elections on the 11th of December, but the voting here was more symbolic, said SDSM’s spokesman and list carrier of the coalition in the 6th electoral district, Petre Shilegov this evening in Tearce. - I can say with great pride, that the citizens of Tearce voted for changes, for life...

Several minutes before 9 o’clock the voting was stopped because at the polling station 2011 in Tearce because the UV lamp was out of order. This lamp was used for checking whether the voters had previously voted somewhere else. The election board stated that the voting should be stopped for a period of one hour, but after 15 minutes...

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...

By 17:00 pm the voter turnout was 60.38% on a state level, reported the President of the State Election Commission, Aleksandar Chichakovski. “In Constituency 1 66.38% came out, in Constituency 2 59.89% came out, in Constituency 3 64.90%, in Constituency 4 67.15% came out to vote, in Constituency 5 58.46%, and in Constituency 6 46.82%”, said Chichakovski. According to these figures,...

By 13h, the turnout of voters was 34, 43 %, as was informed by the president of the State Election Commission, Aleksandar Chichanovski. -At the election district 1, the turnout was 38,35 %, in the ED 2 - 33,7, in the ED3 – 38,62 %, in the ED 4 – 39,9 %, in the ED 5 – 33,55...

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 far is 9.49%. “Turnout in Constituency...

Citizens Association "Most" reported that all polling stations were open on time where they have deployed observers, apart from two places in Veles and Kumanovo. “Polling station 1036 in the municipality of Kumanovo opened with a 15 minute delay. Polling station 2210 in the municipality of Veles opened 30 minutes late because there was no electricity”, added "Most". They have also...

Today in Macedonia early parliamentary elections are being held, where 1,784,416 citizens have the right to vote and are registered voters. Elections will be conducted at 3,480 polling stations in six constituencies. The total number of voters in the constituencies are as follows: - Constituency 1: 295,948 - Constituency 2: 306,471 - Constituency 3: 280,727 - Constituency 4: 282,537 - Constituency 5: 290,433 - Constituency 6: 307,817 Polling...

More than 600 inmates which is 30 % were unable to exercise their right to vote, because they did not have the valid biometric documents, reports "Telma" TV. The problem emerged during the organization of the extension of the validity of the identity cards, where institutions blame each other for the error. Representatives from the State Election Commission and the Ombudsman...

"All polling stations in correctional departments opened at 7:00 am and voting will last until 19:00 pm. 2,015 people have the right to vote at these polling stations. In the duration of today’s vote, 13 individuals who are in centres for internally displaced people will go to the polls, as well as a total of 5746 voters who will...