Tag: census
Macedonia 10.02.21 | 19:22

Zaev: Census must be conducted, the state can’t work in the dark

Answering a reporter’s question about the importance of the census and the possibility of postponing it, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, pointed out that all issues can always be resolved through an inclusive process and when there is room to reach a consensus. He stressed...
Macedonia 10.02.21 | 18:11

VMRO-DPMNE to start collecting signatures – every citizen against the political census will be able to sign the initiative

VMRO-DPMNE maintains the position that the government wants to conduct a political census. Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi returned the initiative to collect signatures because the name the Republic of Macedonia. The party announced that they will conduct the procedure themselves. Despite such institutional...
Macedonia 10.02.21 | 10:19

Statistics Bureau chief Simovski says he wanted a census without ethnic and religious designations, but was forced to back down

Apostol Simovski, head of the State Statistics Bureau, confirmed that his original intent was to have the census planned for this April take place without having the residents state their ethnic and religious affiliation. Simovski says that the ethnic bickering politicizes the census, but that he was...
Macedonia 09.02.21 | 18:48

Mickoski: The government majority refused to accept the citizens’ initiative to postpone the census

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, informed on Facebook that the government majority did not accept the citizens’ initiative to postpone the census. The government majority did not accept the citizens’ initiative to postpone the census, which is an obvious falsification. The excuse...
Macedonia 09.02.21 | 16:54

Simovski confirms that for people not present in Macedonia, data will be provided by a person who knows them best

The State Statistical Office maintains the position that the census is a statistical operation and will conduct it in that way. We are aware that there will be political pressure, but it is up to us whether we will be able to resist. We are firmly determined to persevere in this and this operation to...
Macedonia 09.02.21 | 13:59

Zaev’s planned census reaches first internal obstacles

The first public confrontation between the heads of the State Statistics Bureau (DZS), tasked with holding a census in April, was predictably along ethnic lines. The ethnic Macedonian, SDSM party appointed director of the DZS Apostol Simovski stated that emigrants can’t empower a representative...
Macedonia 08.02.21 | 20:24

Ivan Jordanov: Digital census is much more practical at the moment

Ivan Jordanov from VMRO-DPMNE said on the “24 Analysis” show that it is unfortunate that Macedonia missed the chance to be a leader in the region in vaccination. According to Jordanov, the government does not have a strategy for resolving the economic crisis, ie as he said, in order to deal...
Macedonia 08.02.21 | 10:18

Albanian emigrants can appoint a friend to state their national and religious affiliation, deputy census chief Selami insists

Ilmi Selami, the DUI party official who is co-chairman of the Statistics Bureau and has veto power over the coming census, said that Bureau chairman Apostol Simovski (appointed by the SDSM party) is wrong when he said that emigrants can’t report their ethnic and religious background. The ethnic...
Macedonia 08.02.21 | 10:08

Panovski: Hold the census in the open, start with those who already had the coronavirus

Doctor Nikola Panovski urged the Zaev regime, which insists on holding a census this spring, to have it performed in the open – in the yards of houses, or in balconies of apartment buildings. Panovski warned that the process will be dangerous and should begin with the citizens who already had the...
Macedonia 06.02.21 | 19:11

Fingerprint devices will detect census lies

The census methodology will unnecessarily lead to a double operation, VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski said on Saturday. Five percent are the citizens that need to be visited in person. That is tens of thousands of citizens, which means there is no need for 30,000-35-000 census enumerators, but 300-400...
Macedonia 05.02.21 | 15:18

Mickoski: Census should be held in March or April 2022

Census should be held in March or April 2022, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said Friday. Our position is clear. Census should be held in March or April 2022. By then we will have fingerprint devices, which will be used first in the local elections. If they want to conduct it now, they have the...
Macedonia 05.02.21 | 09:47

SDSM: All citizens and political parties to contribute to the census

The Law on Census adopted by the parliamentary majority led by SDSM guarantees the implementation of this statistical operation in line with all international practices and standards by the State Statistical Office, which has the capacity and readiness to conduct a successful census after 19 years, said...
Macedonia 04.02.21 | 19:54

Nikoloski: SDSM and DUI are prepared to postpone the census because they realized the conditions for it have not been met

Announcements from Zaev and Pendarovski that they are willing to postpone the 2021 census proves that the process is not well prepared and falls short of the European standards, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski. The opposition party demanded that the census is postponed, because of...
Macedonia 03.02.21 | 14:59

Digital census or postponement for spring 2022, says Mickoski, calling on the Government to show reason

Today we formally start the initiative with which we will submit the law to the Parliament Speaker, asking to nullify the census law which was adopted without consensus and without any respect for the health of citizens in the midst of the pandemic. Unfortunately the authorities have also failed to deal...
Macedonia 02.02.21 | 22:46

Pendarovski proposes that the census is postponed by a few months

President Stevo Pendarovski raised the prospect of postponing the census, which was one of the key demands of the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. The census is now set for April, even though Macedonia still has a very high coronavirus death and infection rate, and, also controversially, is going to count...
Macedonia 02.02.21 | 12:24

Tens of thousands of Macedonians from the diaspora may remain uncounted in the census because passport issuance procedure is too slow

Tens of thousands of Macedonians living abroad may remain uncounted in the census because the issuance of Macedonian travel documents is late. They have been appealing for half a year to be issued travel documents because they cannot properly extend their stay in the country, and also because they will...
Macedonia 01.02.21 | 19:20

Osmani says he will use the Foreign Ministry to help count emigrants during the census

Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani announced today that he will place the resources of his department toward counting the number of non-resident Macedonian citizens. It is the most controversial element in the census law, which will count not only actual residents in Macedonia but also people who have left...
Macedonia 31.01.21 | 10:33

Two paths forward: in-person or digital census

While the SDSM – DUI coalition is preparing for an in-person census in April, the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party is about to begin gathering signatures from citizens to strike down the controversial move and to hold a digital census. Macedonia hasn’t had a census since 2002, in the aftermath...
Macedonia 29.01.21 | 19:57

Mickoski: If the census is conducted electronically, we will accept any results

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski told TV Kanal 5 there will not be a boycott, but again urged the government to postpone the census for six to 12 months. The latest proposal coming from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE, which was presented tonight by the party leader Hristijan Mickoski is to conduct...
Macedonia 29.01.21 | 17:25

Maricic: We need to unite over the census, it is a top state priority

The Minister of Justice, Bojan Maricic, in his address in Parliament at the meeting of the state leadership with the mayors, stressed the need for politicians and the whole society to unite and support the census, because, as he said, this statistical operation is essential for the state. It is necessary...
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