Thursday, 16 July 2020
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 22:19

US Embassy: Elections represent an important step for democracy

As the first general elections held in Macedonia since joining NATO and being invited to commence EU accession negotiations earlier this year, these elections represent an important step for democracy, says the United States Embassy to Skopje in a statement regarding yesterday’s parliamentary elections. We...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 21:40

Janusev: SEC is recounting the votes at VMRO-DPMNE’s request

At the request of VMRO-DPMNE, the SEC is recounting the results from the hardcopy forms, in order to remove all possibilities for any irregularities regarding the election results. We have information that the numbers of the results entered in the SEC system do not correspond with the exact numbers entered...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 20:35

SEC with final unofficial results: SDSM wins 46 MP seats, VMRO-DPMNE-44, DUI-15, AA/A-12, Levica-2, DPA-1

The State Election Commission announced Thursday the unofficial final results of yesterday’s early parliamentary elections. SDSM-led coalition “We Can” has won 46 MP seats, the VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition – 44 MP seats, Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) -15, Alliance for Albanians/Alternativa...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 20:12

Nikoloski: Zaev failed to win at home despite the massive bribery, pressure and blackmail

The head of VMRO-DPMNE’s list in the fourth electoral district, Aleksandar Nikoloski, in a video message thanked all the people who went to the early parliamentary elections yesterday and with their vote, as he says, contributed to the development of democracy in Macedonia. I would especially like...
Health 16.07.20 | 19:09

Macedonia received 80 million euros in EU assistance to fight Covid-19

The European Commission on behalf of the EU has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Macedonia to pave the way for the disbursement of €80 million in macro-financial assistance (MFA). This is the first MoU signed as part of €3 billion MFA package that the Commission proposed for ten enlargement...
Balkans 16.07.20 | 18:36

Albania’s President Ilir Meta congratulates Albanian parties on high representation in Macedonian Parliament

Albanian President Ilir Meta has extended a message of congratulations to Macedonia on administering free and democratic elections. Meta congratulated parties of ethnic Albanians on their result at the elections. Congratulations to North Macedonia on the free, democratic and competitive elections. Many...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 17:44

OSCE/ODIHR: Election day went smoothly despite some challenges with the reporting of results

The early parliamentary elections in Macedonia were generally well run and candidates could campaign freely, but legal stability was undermined by significant revisions to the legal framework and subsequent government decrees, international observers from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 17:08

Adjustment or error: Data published by the SEC doesn’t correspond with the hardcopy forms

There are major ambiguities after the release of the unofficial results. The parties are dissatisfied with the work of the State Election Commission and say that the data published by the SEC doesn’t correspond with the hardcopy forms. One of the examples is the polling station 2788 in the first...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 16:40

Spasovski: Elections confirm our European capacity, SEC to announce results

Interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski urged the State Election Commission to announce the voting results because the citizens expect this. Spasovski told a press conference that citizens and the state demonstrated European capacity at yesterday’s elections and that the voter turnout was high taking...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 16:31

Milososki from Infectious Disease Clinic thanked for the landslide victory in Kicevo

Antonio Milososki thanked his fellow citizens from Kicevo, friends and supporters for the support and trust, saying that he will do his best to justify it in the Macedonian Parliament. This campaign, unfortunately, I was hospitalized at the Infectious Disease Clinic, where I still am because of Covid-19,...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 16:21

Besa: We have managed to double the number of seats, we will have four MP seats

We have managed to double the number of MPs seats and we will have four lawmakers in the next Parliament. Coalition ‘We Can’ made the difference and secured the win, said BESA secretary-general Arijanit Hoxha on Thursday. SDSM and BESA will undoubtedly form the government for the next four years,...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 16:08

Eight patients die of Covid-19 in one day

Eight patients died of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, increasing the overall death toll to 401. The deceased patients are from Skopje (2), Gostivar (2) and one each from Kicevo, Prilep, Struga and Ohrid. Their ages ranged from 60 to 73. Half of the deaths were reported in the two main Covid-19 clinics...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 15:40

Police investigating the attack on the SEC website which undermined the elections

The Interior Ministry said that it is looking for the perpetrators of the hacking attack on the State Electoral Commission which threw the vote counting process in disarray and raised doubts in the veracity of the process. The SEC website, which is used to inform the public in detail about the turnout...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 15:07

Ahmeti rejoices in his coming role as kingmaker

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti gleefully predicted that will again be the kingmaker after the early elections delivered a narrow result between the two main parties, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM. There will be grand negotiations. Grand negotiations. Mala Recica (the village near Tetovo where DUI has its party HQ)...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 14:12

Mickoski: Most voters opted for change, VMRO is best placed to form the next coalition

In his first remarks after the elections, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said that his party has won more votes and seats than SDSM (putting SDSM coalition partner BESA aside) and that the mood of the public is undeniably pro-opposition. Mickoski said that he is beginning the coalition building...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:52

Fire in the vehicle carrying ballots from Gostivar to Skopje

As if the chaos surrounding the vote counting process after Macedonia’s elections was not bad enough, given the alleged hacking attack on the State Electoral Commission and the delayed publication of the results, a car transporting votes from Gostivar to Skopje caught fire overnight. Tetovo police...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:40

Highly unusual results coming from the Election Commission throw the vote counting process in doubt

The website of the State Electoral Commission continues to be down, after the alleged hacking attack last evening, but in the brief periods it goes up it creates even more confusion in the public. Several screen shots from the website show results that are completely out of the realm of any previous...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:04

So you have an evenly split Parliament. What next?

The unprecedented narrow results in the July 15 early general elections have brought Macedonia to uncharted waters. Never before were the two main parties so even and also so far from creating a stable coalition. Also unprecedented is the inability of the State Electoral Commission to compute the results,...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 12:05

Far left leader Apasiev predicts another early election and even more seats for his party

Following a rare success for an small, primarily ethnic Macedonian party to enter Parliament on its own, the head of the Levica group Dimitar Apasiev predicted that in the next elections they will have a double digit number of representatives. Levica, a far left protest group which opposes the imposed...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 11:54

Message from an alleged hack group sent to the Time.mk news aggregator

A message from an allegedly Macedonian nationalist hack group was sent to the Time.mk news aggregator which was hacked yesterday, just as the public was plugging in to view the results of the early general elections. It was the second of the two major website failures of the evening – the first,...
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