Tag: bribery
Macedonia 28.08.24 | 09:59

Mickoski informs about a bribery attempt over the Corridor 8 project

Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said that an attempt to bribe him has been made, in connection with the Corridor 8 project. Mickoski did not reveal additional details about the attempt. This comes weeks after the Government announced that it is forced to cancel the railway link to Bulgaria project,...
Macedonia 04.05.24 | 12:31

VMRO accuses DUI of bribery in cities in eastern Macedonia

VMRO-DPMNE accused the ruling DUI party of engaging in extensive bribery of voters, as they try to ward off a serious challenge from the opposition VLEN bloc. DUI officials have been seen even in places like Vinica, Kocani, Berovo and Delcevo, buying votes from citizens gathered in religious temples....
Macedonia 26.05.23 | 21:21

Mickovski: The advances for the construction of corridors will be used in electoral bribery

The specialists in highway supervision will receive 40 times higher salaries than an average university professor, which means that they should be at least 40 more efficient – or the money will end in someone else’s pockets, VMRO-DPME leader Mickovski accused on Friday. ” A university...
Macedonia 27.10.21 | 11:15

VMRO-DPMNE: Vasko Kovacevski is the head of the parapolice structures that carry out bribery and intimidation in Bitola

SDSM is in a panic and wants to minimize the more obvious defeat with bribery and violence, said VMRO-DPMNE. In a press release, the opposition party points out that parapolice structures like the one in Prilep have been formed in Bitola, Ohrid, Kocani, and bribery in the first round was carried out...
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 15.10.21 | 17:23

VMRO published a long list of SDSM officials who are bribing voters

VMRO-DPMNE official Dragan Kovacki released a lengthy list of names of SDSM party activists who, he said, are preparing to distribute pre-election bribes to voters. Kovacki warned these activists to abandon their plans, because they will be held liable after the elections. The ruling SDSM party has established...
Macedonia 14.10.21 | 10:57

VMRO-DPMNE accuses SDSM of vote buying

The Zaev regime is engaged in pre-election bribery, using public money and dark funds, the VMRO-DPMNE party said in a statement. One form of bribery, according to the opposition party, is the package of “financial aid” approved to 160 companies just ahead of the elections. If the purpose...
Macedonia 09.08.21 | 18:35

Zaev starts with bribery before elections, to give employees in ministries bonuses of 9,000 denars

With the elections approaching, the government of Zoran Zaev started bribing its most loyal voters, the employees in the ministries. At the government session held on August 5, a decision was made for a one-time reward for the employees in the ministries. This bonus amounts to 30 percent of the basic...
Macedonia 19.09.20 | 11:57

Saliu: The government bought the votes of the Roma in the elections

In the past elections, there was a massive bribery of Roma voters by the government. Money was offered, as well as expired food. With the arrival of this government, the Roma are placed on the margins of society, Shaban Saliu, president of the Democratic Forces of Roma said in an interview with “Republika”. He...
Macedonia 13.08.20 | 15:25

Zaev is again trying to bribe VMRO members of Parliament

Agents of Zoran Zaev’s SDSM party keep approaching members of Parliament elected on the VMRO-DPMNE ticket, offering them money and other perks to switch allegiance, VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski said during his press conference today. Zaev, who was given the mandate to form a Government today,...
Economy 03.08.20 | 22:46

Massive spike in public debt is the price of SDSM’s pre-election vote buying

The one billion EUR increase in debt in just several months is proof of the massive pre-election bribery that was done by the SDSM party, said VMRO-DPMNE official Anastasija Ilievska. The shocking new report from the Finance Ministry released today showed that the public debt now stands at 6.5 billion...
Macedonia 30.07.20 | 23:20

Mickoski on the bribery before the elections: 10 million euros were distributed by hand, outside the institutions

The bribery before the elections was committed through the cards that were distributed in the amount of 28 million euros, then through the green oil project. Our information is that 10 million euros have been distributed by hand outside the institutions, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski aid...
Macedonia 21.07.20 | 17:22

VMRO: State prosecutors refuse to investigate dozens of cases of vote buying by SDSM party officials

Igor Georgievski from VMRO-DPMNE called on the office of state prosecutors to begin acting against the SDSM party officials who were caught bribing voters in the run up to the early general elections on Wednesday. VMRO considers the elections to have been held in an undemocratic atmosphere, and points...
Macedonia 10.07.20 | 18:07

SDSM activist arrested while bribing voters in Skopje

An activist of the ruling SDSM party was arrested today for bribing voters. The incident occurred in a mainly Roma neighborhood in Skopje’s Gjorce Petrov district. The person was not identified by the police, but some media outlets are identifying him, and publishing his pictures with top SDSM...
Macedonia 20.06.20 | 17:15

Police interrogates fellow officer and SDSM activist who filmed bribing Roma voters in Skopje

Skopje police officers interrogated one of their policemen who was filmed bribing voters in the majority Roma municipality of Shuto Orizari. The poor part of the city is targeted by the ruling SDSM party that is trying to buy votes there ahead of the elections on July 17. SDSM activists filmed bribing...
Macedonia 02.06.20 | 11:38

The association, in which the Zaev family appears as donor, now distributes packages in prisons

The civic association “We can all together”, in which the Zaev family also appears as donor, has now started with the distribution of, as they say, humanitarian aid for the people who are in prison. According to the association, the humanitarian aid includes packages with personal hygiene...
Economy 18.05.20 | 14:23

SDSM voucher plan is thinly disguised pre-election vote buying

The latest set of economic measures from the Government, which it plans to adopt by decree, is seen in the public as an open attempt to bribe voters ahead of the elections that should take place by the end of the year. The measures would provide 355 million EUR in funds that would be distributed directly...
Macedonia 02.04.20 | 23:36

SDSM is bribing poor voters in Kumanovo with food packages

VMRO-DPMNE called on state prosecutors, the police and the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate social media comments revealing how interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski sent his party activists to distribute food packages through poor neighborhoods in Kumanovo. Јавно ги повикувам...
Macedonia 05.05.19 | 17:28

Allegations of bribery of voters in Cair

The Infomax news site reports that the director of a public hospital from Skopje’s Cair district is openly bribing voters right in front of a voting station. Infomax published a photograph showing the man which the site identifies as an official of the DUI party, meeting with people and handing...
Macedonia 05.05.19 | 15:00

Massive bribery of Roma voters across the country

Photos of election irregularities in Stip circulate on Facebook. Bribing voters and organized transport of Roma voters to polling stations are only part of the photos that can be seen on social networks. Apart from the incident in Stip, bribing voters has been registered across the whole country, and...

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