Tag: census
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 19:30

“SDSM forced the census law through Parliament without having broad support or holding a proper debate”

The ruling SDSM party forced the census law through Parliament without achieving a broad support or holding a proper discussion, said Nikola Micevski, head of the VMRO-DPMNE group in Parliament, after the ruling majority adopted the law with the narrow margin of 62 votes in the 120 seat Parliament. All...
Macedonia 21.01.21 | 09:22

New attempt today: Will the government have a majority to pass the census bill?

The Parliament is set to hold a continuation of the 29th session, at which it is expected to vote on the census bill, in a shortened procedure. The debate on the bill in the Parliament, which should enable the census to be conducted in the country after 19 years, ended on January 15. It was then announced...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 20:35

EC expects Macedonia to hold a census in line with European standards and regulations

The EU Commission expects Macedonia to hold a census in line with European standards and regulations, spokeswoman Ana Pisonero told Republika. Candidate countries are encouraged to conduct a census in line with the EU Regulations as part of the pre-accession preparations. The applicable EU legislation...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 15:49

Zaev on census results: The percentages will not affect the acquired rights

Regardless of the number of percentage representation the census shows, it will not affect the acquired rights, the Constitution, the laws, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said on Wednesday. As he said, the numbers may be relative as a result of the free movement of people. It is a statistical and realistic...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 12:15

Ademi: I will not recognize the result of the census if the Albanians are less then 20%

If the census shows that Albanians make less than 20 percent, then I will not recognize the results, said DUI MP Arbr Ademi, said Tuesday on the “Click Plus” show on TV21. Ademi, as a former Minister of Education and Science, also presented data on the number of enrolled students in the 2017/18...
Macedonia 20.01.21 | 11:12

Silence in Brussels: Is the EU turning a blind eye to a disputable census in Macedonia?

The European Union is silent on the government’s insistence on passing the census bill at all costs, despite public criticism and without an agreement with the opposition. Apart from the protocol statements of official Brussels that a census is needed, there is no reaction whether they support...
Macedonia 19.01.21 | 10:04

Zaev wants to apply the methods of manipulation and election fraud to the census

Citizens living in a certain country are counted everywhere in the world, only the census according to Zaev’s standards and methodology is not like that. The census lbill that the government is forcibly pushing Zaev is not a statistical but a market-political operation. There are neither European...
Macedonia 15.01.21 | 19:03

Milososki: Census should and must be conducted, but not as SDSM wants to do it at the cost of people’s lives

At Friday’s Parliament session, VMRO-DPMNE MP, Antonio Milososki spoke about the census law, the methodology for its adoption, as well as the current Covid-19 situation that directly affects the holding of the census. Regarding the adoption of the census law, Milososki said that not only they are...
Macedonia 15.01.21 | 17:37

Lefkov: Census law has many inconsistencies, no clear definitions and methodology

At Friday’s Parliament session, VMRO-DPMNE MP, Mile Lefkov said that the census law is an ad hoc law without clear definitions, without a clear methodology and vague in many parts. We have before us the law on the census of population, households and dwellings and as we said it is a very important...
Macedonia 15.01.21 | 11:38

VMRO-DPMNE: SDSM and DUI are pushing Macedonia toward a forged census

The Parliament is set to resume debate on the highly controversial census law this afternoon. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party said that the law will count all citizens, even those who moved out long ago, and not actual residents, and that the results are pre-arranged between the ruling SDSM and DUI parties. SDSM...
Macedonia 14.01.21 | 21:14

Mickoski: The census is being pushed by force, we have sided with the people and the truth

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, stressed Thursday in an interview with TV Sitel that the census is being pushed by force, but that his party with its actions is on the side of the people and the truth. They are pushing the whole census thing by force because it s about a political, not...
Macedonia 14.01.21 | 19:59

Mickoski: The government is forcing the census as a political, not a statistical operation

The leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, said Thursday in an interview with TV Sitel that the government is committing violence against the citizens of Macedonia with the census bill. They are pushing the whole thing by force, the census is seen as a political, not a statistical operation. We tried...
Macedonia 14.01.21 | 14:18

Ethnic politics condemn the planned 2021 census to failure

The ethnic break-down of the coming census seems to be already agreed between the ruling parties. Under the proposed law, the census will take place in April, using very lax security criteria and will include non-residents – citizens who have moved out of the country long ago. Eurostat criteria...
Macedonia 14.01.21 | 10:29

Milososki: It seems like the result of the census is already agreed between SDSM and DUI

The ethnic break-down of the coming census is already agreed between the ruling parties, said VMRO-DPMNE official Antonio Milososki. He criticized the ruling SDSM – DUI coalition of preparing a census under rules that are far away from European standards, with no guarantees that the process will...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 22:43

All present and absent citizens will be counted in the census, announced the director of the State Statistical Office

The director of the State Statistical Office Apostol Simovski said in an interview with TV Sitel that the census provides an opportunity to count all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of whether they reside or not in the country. According to him, foreign citizens residing in Macedonia will also be counted,...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 17:06

Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Romania postponed their census, only Zaev pushes for fraudulent census

Germany, Scotland, Ireland, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria are just some of the countries that postponed their census due to the pandemic, only Zaev wants to carry out political falsification, the leader of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, accused on Wednesday. Far more developed countries than ours, but also...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 16:48

Micevski: The census should provide the number of resident population, not the number of citizens

The coordinator of VMRO-DPMNE’s group in Parliament Nikola Micevski during today’s debate in Parliament said that the census bill is unacceptable for them and that they will vote against. With the law, we did not reach the plenary session in the way we wanted and called for. From the very...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 14:39

VMRO-DPMNE will not recognize a fraudulent census

VMRO-DPMNE will not recognize the 2021 census if it is conducted under the currently proposed rules, which do not guarantee the accuracy of the data, said the opposition party leader Hristijan Mickoski. He named a long list of problems with the draft census law and called on Prime Minister Zoran Zaev...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 13:00

Mickoski calls on Zaev to withdraw his census law

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski denounced the draft census law and said that, if adopted as proposed by the Parliament, the opposition will begin a procedure to have it nullified. The Zaev regime is determined to hold a census in April, despite the high coronavirus infection and mortality rates,...
Macedonia 13.01.21 | 09:41

Disputed draft census law sent before the Parliament

The Parliament is set to discuss the controversial draft census law. The proposal is hotly disputed after the ruling majority rejected all amendments from the opposition, and is pushing ahead with a census in April, that would also include citizens who have moved out of Macedonia long ago. Ethnic Albanian...
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