A video recorded this evening shows a police patrol accompanying a vehicle in Gevgelija as it apparently distributes bribes to voters ahead of the second round of the local elections tomorrow.

Gevgelija is one of the cities that did not elect a mayor in the first round, and is contested between the SDSM and VMRO-DPMNE candidates. Reports of bribes in the form of sacks of food and cooking oil being distributed to poor families in exchange for their votes are rampant across the country, but in this case the party violating the law is being directly protected by the police.

While reporting on similar violations in Kocani, a crew from the Infomax news site was attacked by local thugs. Due to the law banning political reporting a day before the elections, Republika is unable to directlyreport which party is engaging in bribery and intimidation.