Tag: census
Macedonia 29.01.21 | 15:11

Taravari: I doubt the census will actually take place

Gostivar Mayor and top official of the Alliance of Albanians Arben Taravari says that he doesn’t believe a census will actually take place this year, despite all the pressure coming from the ruling SDSM – DUI coalition. According to Taravari, there are serious issues with the plans put in...
Macedonia 29.01.21 | 09:21

State leadership meets to discuss ways how to go ahead with the controversial census

The Government is preparing a high level conference today with the head of the Statistics Bureau to discuss the controversial census planned for April. President Pendarovski, Prime Minister Zaev, Speaker Xhaferi and key Government ministers will meet with Bureau chief Apostol Simovski and mayors. The...
Macedonia 27.01.21 | 20:18

Clear political agreement over the census between SDSM and DUI, Macedonia has become a state of percentages, not a state of citizens

The Vice President of VMRO-DPMNE, Aleksandar Nikoloski said in an interview on Alpha TV, regarding the census, that Macedonia has long been a state of percentages, not a state of citizens, and that there is a political agreement on percentages between SDSM and DUI, which it is harmful because it will...
Macedonia 27.01.21 | 12:20

Citizens do not trust the census, see it as forced

A poll by the SIA VISTA institute shows that over half of the citizens do not trust the Zaev Government to hold a fair and competent census. Zaev is pushing for a census in April, and has accepted demands from ethnic Albanian parties that emigrants are counted as actual residents – a demand that...
Macedonia 26.01.21 | 15:37

VMRO-DPMNE begins collecting signatures for a new census law

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski announced that the party will begin gathering signatures from its supporters in order to propose a new census law. The Constitution allows 10,000 citizens to propose a new law, and while VMRO-DPMNE can make the proposal through a member of Parliament, this option...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 22:40

Grubi: Census to show percentage of Albanians, there is no political agreement

The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Political System, Artan Grubi, said on the “Top tema” show that regarding the census there is absolutely no political agreement on any numbers between SDSM and DUI or between Ahmeti and Zaev. According to Grubi, the dual signature is not a politicization...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 21:19

Medziti: There is no need for dilemmas, Albanians will be over 25 percent in the census

DUI Vice President and coordinator of the party’s group in Parliament, Izet Medziti says that there are no dilemmas about the number of Albanians, they will be over 25 percent in the census. According to the number of students, according to birth rate and many factors, Albanians will be over 25...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 17:25

Vasilevska: Census law was adopted without political consensus, it shouldn’t be a political but a statistical operation

VMRO-DPMNE MP, Ivanka Vasilevska, stressed Monday that the census was passes in Parliament without the necessary political consensus and contrary to all false declarations made by the ruling majority. Vasilevska says that the law has been forced, above all, leaving a strong suspicion in the society that...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 14:19

President Pendarovski approved the controversial census law

As predicted, Stevo Pendarovski announced that he has signed the highly controversial census law. His move comes after Prime Minister Zaev said that there is no chance the President will not sign the law, and after US Ambassador Byrnes endorsed it. President Pendarovski’s support for the census...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 14:04

Siljanovska: Census chief is threatening citizens with made up prison sentences

Law professor and VMRO member of Parliament Gordana Siljanovska called out the head of the State Statistics Buraeu Apostol Simovski for his shocking threat aimed at citizens who will refuse to participate in the census, due to fears of the coronavirus. Simovski threatened citizens with up to five years...
Macedonia 25.01.21 | 12:59

DUI leader Ahmeti confirms that he wants emigrants counted in the census, as if they were residents

In a TV interview, DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti openly supported the notion that the census should include every citizen who owns some property in Macedonia – even those who have long moved out and maintain only nominal presence in the country. Macedonia already has a largely accurate database of...
Macedonia 24.01.21 | 17:51

No chance that Albanians will be less than 25 percent in the census, says Ahmeti

Everyone who lives in the country and has property will be counted in the census, Ali Ahmeti told a Gostivar local TV. The DUI leader assures that the institutions will do their job, so everyone living in the country and abroad will be included. There have been debates over the census, including public...
Macedonia 24.01.21 | 10:52

Will he agree with VMRO-DPMNE: Pendarovski consults with legal experts on the Census Law

President Stevo Pendarovski is consulting legal experts before signing the census law, the president’s office told MIA, adding that the president’s position will be announced these days. On the same day after its adoption, the Parliament Speaker submitted the law to the President to sign...
Macedonia 23.01.21 | 11:09

SDSM: Census to be conducted in the spring, VMRO-DPMNE will not prevent this statistical operation

After almost two decades, all normative conditions for conducting a census have been created in the country, according to all international standards and Eurostat regulations, after the majority in the SDSM-led Parliament passed the census law, the party said. With the census that will be held in the...
Macedonia 23.01.21 | 10:43

SDSM to conduct census with pre-agreed numbers

SDSM completely refused to use fingerprint terminals in the census, which will allow only those who are actually present, ie resident population to be counted, said VMRO-DPMNE, adding that if the government wants statistics, then there would be no problem to use fingerprint terminals. Zaev wants a census...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 22:19

Zaev: The census is a statistical operation

The census is such a serious statistical operation that I identify with the statehood responsibility of the citizens, said Prime Minister Zoran Zaev in an interview with TV 24’s “Trilling” show, adding that such an attitude is one of the possible answers to the historical question of...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 19:40

Major shortcomings in the census law: If you are not at home, you will be registered by a family member who knows you best

The census law that was passed yesterday has many shortcomings that were not removed even though the opposition demanded it. The most problematic are the two articles which stipulate the manner of counting, as well as who will be included. Specifically, persons who are not physically present will also...
Macedonia 22.01.21 | 19:22

Mickoski: Census results already agreed between government coalition, VMRO-DPMNE to start collecting signatures from citizens to nullify the falsified census

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski spoke in an interview with TV Alfa about the census law which was voted in the Parliament with a European flag and without consensus. He stressed that this law, with which the census results have already been agreed between the coalition partners SDSM and DUI, will...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 22:54

Statistics Bureau chief threatens prison for those who don’t cooperate with the controversial census

Apostol Simovski, head of the Statistics Bureau, threatened those who try to boycott the census planned for April with up to five years in prison. The threat comes as the highly controversial law, that will count emigrants as residents, was rushed through the Parliament today. Ethnic Albanian politicians...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 20:55

Healthcare Minister Filipce insists that the census will be held safely

Healthcare Minister Venko Filipce insisted that holding the controversial census in April will be safe and won’t contribute to spread of the coronavirus. Many European countries, including Germany, postponed their census planned for 2021 as the pandemic continues to rage, but the Zaev regime insisted...
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