Monday, 18 October 2021
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 13:23

Mucunski expresses gratitude to Aerodrom for his victory

Thank you for the great victory we won together and for your strong faith in a better and more prosperous future, said VMRO-DPMNE mayoral candidate in Aerodrom Timco Mucunski. Mucunski is on the verge of a first round win in the urban district that supported SDSM in 2016, but since turned sharply against...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 12:48

Nikoloski: After four years of thorough reforms, VMRO is ready for a major victory

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski expressed his gratitude to the voters who gave the conservative party a major victory at the local elections yesterday. Over the past four years we thoroughly reformed the party. We proceed to another victory in the second round on October 31st. Together...
Macedonia Economy 18.10.21 | 12:42

Fuel prices go up again

Fuel prices are set to go up again this evening, the RKE energy regulatory commission informed. The new prices will mean a hike of 1 denar per liter for gasoline and diesel fuels. Eurosuper BS-95 will now cost 76.5 denars per liter, Eurosuper BS-98 will be priced at 78.5 denars and the diesel fuel will...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 12:37

SEC confirms 19 outright victories for VMRO, including some urban areas, and just 9 for SDSM, mainly in smaller cities

The State Electoral Commission published full results for 32 municipalities, confirming the major VMRO-DPMNE victory at the local elections. The results show that VMRO outright won the mayoral races in 19 municipalities – including some major gains such as Bitola, Veles and Stip, as well as two...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 11:47

Dimitriev: The people are never wrong

The people are never wrong, said former Prime Minister Emil Dimitriev from VMRO-DPMNE, congratulating the party on its big success in the local elections yesterday. Macedonia is eternal, Dimitriev added in a social media post. The comment is a spin on the famous remark former SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 11:42

Zaev refers to the opposition parties as “evil” after his major election defeat

A comment Zoran Zaev made during his non-concessions speech on Sunday evening caught the public’s attention. As he was trying to put a positive spin on the string of defeats his SDSM party suffered across Macedonia, and blamed his smaller coalition partners, Zaev said that his coalition must re-unite...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 11:34

Mickoski: Hope is reborn

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski declared that hope has returned to Macedonia, after the string of opposition victories in the local elections yesterday. VMRO secured three major cities outright – Prilep, Veles and Stip, and won two major municipalities in Skopje – Kisela Voda and Gazi...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 11:20

Zaev demands that his unreliable coalition partners return to the fold

When he eventually emerged to address the public after a night of major defeats, Zoran Zaev addressed one person in particular – his Municipal Minister Goran Mileski. The little noticed leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party is still formally part of Zaev’s ruling coalition but broke ranks...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:52

Levica is open to support opposition candidates in the second round of the elections, and also for a push to bring down Zaev’s Government

Following a good result in a number of urban areas, the left wing Levica party announced that it is prepared to discuss terms with other opposition parties for the second round of the local elections. Levica did not win a single mayoral seat, but greatly increased its share of votes in many municipal...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:21

Will Milevski forget the request for “changes” now that SDSM is seeking his support in Bitola?

The Minister of Local Self-Government Goran Milevski, who this year as a candidate of DOM and LDP  sought the vote of the people of Bitola for mayoral term, finished third in Sunday’s elections. Milevski’s party, a coalition partner of SDSM, decided to act together with DOM, and not with...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:14

SEC published first full results from rural municipalities, is processing over 200 complaints

The State Electoral Commission published full mayoral results from five smaller, rural municipalities, as it continues to count the votes in the larger municipalities after the local elections on Sunday. According o the results, VMRO-DPMNE candidate Kiro Nackov won the race in Gradsko wit 55.6 percent...
Culture 18.10.21 | 10:11

Macedonian Language Institute holds Open Days

“Krste Misirkov” Macedonian Language Institute opens its doors to visitors this week during its traditional Open Days at the Institute event, which will run through October 22. Elena Jovanova-Grujovska, director of the “Krste Misirkov” Macedonian Language Institute and Nikola Stojanovski, first...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:08

The best for Gjorce Petrov is not Naumoski – Stojkoski is the favorite

Of the 58.49% of votes counted so far in the Skopje municipality of Gjorce Petrov, VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate Aleksandar Stojkoski has a lead of 1,672 votes over the current mayor and candidate for another term Aleksandar Naumoski. According to the official data of the SEC, Stojkoski won 5,383 votes,...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:07

Skopje Council results and the removal of smaller candidates from the race favor Danela Arsovska as she goes into the second round against Mayor Silegov

After a night of major defeats across the country, SDSM touted the mayoral race in Skopje as one glimmer of hope for the party, where they could turn things around in the second round. SDSM candidate and incumbent Mayor Petre Silegov has 35 percent of the votes and trails with 3.5 percent behind the...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:05

Timco Mucunski wins most of the votes in Aerodrom

The first round of local elections is over. As the State Election Commission successively releases the results on its website, parties from both the government and the opposition have declared victory. Out of 51.48% of processed votes in the Municipality of Aerodrom, the candidate of VMRO-DPMNE, Timco...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 09:59

VMRO-DPMNE: Elections showed that Zaev is the worst for your municipality, the people have chosen a future

The elections showed that Zaev is the worst for your municipality, the people have chosen a future, said VMRO-DPMNE on Monday. The party points out that the people of Macedonia won, defeated the unemployment, lack of ideas and incompetence of SDSM. Men and women, young and old, won. Macedonia won. The...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 01:20

Zaev blames his minor partners for the defeat, insists that his coalition will survive

Zoran Zaev eventually addressed the public at 1 in the morning, after a brutal election day for his SDSM party. Flanked by his Government Ministers, instead of the mayoral candidats, Zaev declared that his party won or has a lead in 30 municipalities in the second round, and insisted that he will fight...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 00:53

Skopje mayoral race: Arsovska leads Silegov with 15 percent of the votes counted

With 15 percent of the votes in Skopje counted, Danela Arsovska has a lead of about 1,000 votes ahead of SDSM’s Petre Silegov in the important mayoral race that will likely of the vote against 35 for Silegov. Of the protest candidates, Petar Georgievski – Kamikaza ranked third, with about...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 00:47

BESA’s Kasami says he is in the lead in the race in Tetovo, as he heads to a run-off against Teuta Arifi

The BESA party is celebrating the reported lead its leader Bilal Kasami has over the incumbent Tetovo Mayor Teuta Arifi. Kasami and Arifi will head to a run-off that will likely complicate relations in Zaev’s coalition, where they are both crucial members. Kasami’s claim that he is in the...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 00:25

Run-off in Struga between the DUI and Albanian opposition candidates

The mayoral race in Struga will go to a run-off between the incumbent Mayor Ramiz Merko from DUI and his main challenger, Idri Istrefi from the Alliance of Albanians and Alternative parties. Merko insists that he is in the lead by 2,000 votes. Istrefi replied that he will continue to seek the support...
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