Apostol Simovski – the highly controversial head of the State Statistics Bureau – said that he can’t explain how was one of the religious categories in the census results changed. The number of atheists in Macedonia was initially put at 355, but overnight it grew 25 fold.

 

Trust in the census further eroded after data on religious groups was changed overnight

 

We will check what happened and I will notify the public on Monday. It’s probably a technical error, Simovski said.