Tag: bitola
Macedonia 13.11.21 | 21:44

Protest in Bitola in support of a police officer sacked and sentenced to prison over an incident with a group of Roma citizens

Large scale protests took place in Bitola today, where the court sentenced a police officer to a year in prison and cost him his job, over an attack on several drunken Roma citizens. Goce Petkovski was filmed kicking three Roma citizens last September in a case that caused outrage and protests from local...

Macedonia 31.10.21 | 22:05

SDSM candidate Hristo Kondovski admits defeat in Bitola

SDSM mayoral candidate in Bitola Hristo Kondovski acknowledged defeat and congratulated to the VMRO-DPMNE candidate Toni Konjanovski. The elections were fair and democratic. We go on with life in Bitola as before. The people of Bitola decided where the city will go in the next four years. As a businessman,...

Macedonia 31.10.21 | 20:23

VMRO-DPMNE projected to win in Skopje, Ohrid, Bitola and other key races

Initial projections from the second round of the local elections show that opposition candidates are replicating their victories from the first round and will secure the key contested seats. These include Skopje, Bitola and Ohrid. VMRO-DPMNE, which runs its analytical center to compute the election results,...

Macedonia 31.10.21 | 18:35

Turnout remains high in Bitola and Ohrid

Turnout remains higher than expected in the two main cities that vote for mayors in the second round – other than Skopje. Ohrid and Bitola had the VMRO-DPMNE candidates win the first round, but not by enough to avoid a run-off. Turnout in Ohrid today reached 50.8 percent by 17h, while it was 46...

Macedonia 29.10.21 | 21:18

Police in Bitola harassed a young couple, political intimidation is the likely motive

Infomax reports that special police officers deployed to Bitola, ahead of the crucial run-off election there, harassed a young couple, apparently for political reasons. The couple were stopped yesterday evening, by an unmarked vehicle using police lights. The plainclothes officers inside claimed that...

Macedonia 27.10.21 | 17:27

Bitola: Duped depositors from the TAT pyramidal bank reach agreement with VMRO-DPMNE to have their savings reimbursed

An association of citizens who lost their deposits in the TAT pyramidal banking scheme in Bitola announced that they have reached agreement with the VMRO-DPMNE party be reimbursed once the party is in power. The bank collapsed almost a quarter of a century ago, as the then SDSM led Government allowed...

Economy 26.10.21 | 21:19

Nikoloski: Macedonia faces rolling blackouts just as winter is about to start

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski campaigned in Bitola today together with the party’s mayoral candidate Toni Konjanovski, ahead of one of the key races in the second round of the elections. With reserves of coal at the strategically important REK Bitola power plant apparently all...

Macedonia 26.10.21 | 20:52

Messages show how SDSM officials bribed and intimidated voters; VMRO warns about plans to use special police forces in the campaign of intimidation

VMRO-DPMNE held a press conference to present additional Viber messages exchanged between SDSM officials that point to blatant abuse of police and other resources to go after the opposition candidates and activists. Stoilkovski focused on the small border city of Kriva Palanka, where the SDSM candidate...

Macedonia 20.10.21 | 09:10

SDSM activists filmed bribing voters in Bitola ahead of the key run-off race

After the disastrous first round of the elections, SDSM is reduced to fighting for dear life in the run-off races in Skopje, Bitola, Kumanovo and Ohrid, as well as Centar and Karpos – after all other major cities and Skopje municipalities were lost in the first round. And just as the ruling party...

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 17.10.21 | 23:00

VMRO-DPMNE maintains its lead in Bitola

The crown of an amazing night for VMRO-DPMNE in the local elections is the projected lead in Bitola, a city that was expected to go to SDSM. Current results from the opposition party show that the VMRO-DPMNE candidate Toni Konjanovski has a lead of 1,600 against Hristo Kondovski, a businessman close...

Macedonia 14.10.21 | 17:28

Nikoloski: A vote for the smaller political parties or staying at home is a vote for Zoran Zaev

Obviously, my being late shows what infrastructure projects Bitola is facing with, but it also shows how much the government remembers working only before the elections. We see that the whole of Bitola has been excavated before the elections, that now it is practically impossible to enter the city, that...

Macedonia Economy 13.10.21 | 20:47

Mickoski: Zaev left Macedonia without coal production as an energy crisis looms

During an interview with Sitel TV, opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski, who is a formed head of the state owned ELEM electricity generating company, warned about the extent of the coming energy crisis. Energy inputs influence prices of all products, from 5 to 90 percent. This will add to the already...

Macedonia 07.10.21 | 16:07

Elementary school pupils in Bitola were polled about their sexual experience with older partners

A new controversy over the type of sexual education programs Zaev’s far left Education Minister Mila Carovska is trying to impose on children erupted in Bitola. Elementary school pupils in the “St. Clement” school were given a questionnaire that contained questions such as “have...

Macedonia 06.10.21 | 21:39

Konjanovski: During my term Bitola will get reconstructed streets, bike paths and modular multi-storey car parks

VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate for mayor of Bitola, Toni Konjanovski, said Wednesday on TV Telma’s “Top tema” show that his program envisages resolving the urban and infrastructure chaos in the city. Konjanovski added that at the very beginning of his term he will start with the reconstruction...

Macedonia 02.10.21 | 11:57

VMRO-DPMNE calls on the citizens of Bitola to liberate their city from the clutches of Zoran Zaev’s brother

We can’t allow our cities to be led by the Zaev clan, with Zoran Zaev ruling Strumica and Bitola ruled by his brother Vice Zaev, VMRO-DPMNE said in a press release after its rally in Bitola. Vice Zaev, who leads the main business interests of the Zaev family, has reportedly been taking over the...

Macedonia 01.10.21 | 23:18

Mickoski to Zaev: It’s not bravery to accept every demand that is put before you

It’s not bravery to abandon all red lines and to sign everything, every demand that is put before you, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski in a direct message to Zoran Zaev after his numerous concessions to neighboring countries. Zaev says that he is proud to make brave decisions, but the...

Macedonia 27.09.21 | 21:22

Zaev began the election campaign in Bitola

The ruling SDSM party began its local election campaign in Bitola. Zoran Zaev is trying to maintain his current near total domination over the majority ethnic Macedonian municipalities, and insisted that voting for SDSM will guarantee that the town or city will have “good cooperation” with...

Macedonia 10.09.21 | 14:57

VMRO-DPMNE announced its mayoral candidates in Bitola, Aerodrom, Karpos, Strumica…

VMRO-DPMNE today announced the nominations of eight additional mayoral candidates, including for some key races, such as Aerodrom and Karpos in Skopje, Bitola and Strumica. The party is nominating it’s international secretary Timco Mucunski in Aerodrom. Mucunski is currently member of Parliament...

Macedonia 07.09.21 | 16:53

VMRO-DPMNE to mark the country’s 30th independence anniversary in Bitola

VMRO-DPMNE will mark the country’s 30th independence anniversary in Bitola under the slogan “We have been taking care of Macedonia for 30 years”, the party informed on Tuesday. “We have been taking care of Macedonia for 30 years” includes several activities of a civic nature...

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