Tag: elections
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 28.07.20 | 11:20

Prosecutors raid the State Electoral Commission to investigate the software that threw the election outcome into doubt

Prosecutors raided the State Electoral Commission (SEC) today and seized documents linked with the contract with the software company that prepared the program that presented voting results, the SDK.mk news site reported. The Electoral Commission suffered what it called a hacking attack on the evening...
Macedonia 24.07.20 | 16:34

Administrative Court rejects all charges and requests, including the one for a manual recount

The Administrative Court rejected the final four charges on the conduct of the July 15 elections, including two from VMRO-DPMNE. The conservative party called for a full manual recount of all ballots, given the chaotic vote counting process and the strange hacking attack on the State Electoral Commission...
Macedonia 22.07.20 | 20:36

VMRO takes its case before the Administrative Court

Political parties submitted six new charges, including two from VMRO-DPMNE. The conservative party is calling for a complete manual recount, to restore the trust in the election process after the strange hacking attack on election night. Previously, the request was rejected by the State Electoral Commission,...
Macedonia 22.07.20 | 20:20

Court rejects allegations of ballot stuffing, Ziadin Sela responds with a call for a mass protest against DUI on Monday

The Administrative Court rejected all 75 charges submitted by the Alliance of Albanians and Alternative. The two ethnic Albanian parties claim that its rivals for the Albanian vote, primarily DUI, used intimidation and ballot stuffing to win 15 seats as opposed to AA’s 12. Before the decision was...
Macedonia 21.07.20 | 21:57

Fokus: Police source say that the hacking attack didn’t reach to the election committee database

According to Fokus, the initial findings of the police team that is investigating the election day hacking attack showed that the attack did not tamper with the results as they were published. The website of the State Electoral Commission crashed just as it began uploading the results. A separate attack...
Macedonia 20.07.20 | 23:08

Derkoski says that the parties did not provide evidence for the allegations of ballot stuffing

Oliver Derkovski, the head of the State Election Commission, said that the SEC rejected all complaints submitted over the chaotic early general elections because there was no evidence to back up the claims of ballot stuffing and vote rigging. – That was our problem. The complaints required more...
Macedonia 19.07.20 | 22:32

All 2,000 complaints about the conduct of the elections hastily rejected

In a matter of hours, State Electoral Commission (SEC) voted to reject all objections and complaints it received from the parties that participated in the early general elections. This includes the key requests from VMRO-DPMNE for a manual recount of the ballots. The elections on Wednesday were marked...
Macedonia 18.07.20 | 22:14

Levica submitted nearly 2.000 complaints to the electoral commission

The leftist Levica party submitted nearly 2.000 objections to the State Electoral Commission on the conduct of the early general elections. The SEC also received over 150 complaints from the Alliance of Albanians, as well as the main request – for a complete manual recount of the ballots submitted...
Macedonia 18.07.20 | 10:28

VMRO demands manual recount of the votes

VMRO-DPMNE submitted two objections to the State Electoral Commission (SEC), covering the counting of the votes in the messy early general elections held on Wednesday. The key request from VMRO-DPMNE is a manual recount of the votes, given the chaos that ensued in the reporting of the results. The SEC...
Macedonia 17.07.20 | 15:48

EU expects to see a stable coalition

European Union officials called for the creation of a stable governing coalition in Macedonia after the difficult “corona elections” left the Parliament narrowly divided. In a joint statement from Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi and foreign policy chief Josep Borell, it is said that...
Macedonia 17.07.20 | 13:16

Misajlovski: I’ll never accept these results, they don’t reflect the reality

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski said that the results of the election do not reflect the reality on the ground, and that the opposition party will remain guided by the votes of its supporters. Misajlovski blamed the bribery of voters done by the ruling SDSM party and the abuse of the institutions...
Macedonia 17.07.20 | 09:23

Albanians will determine who won the elections in Macedonia, Albin Kurti’s party says

Albin Kurti’s VV party from Kosovo congratulated to the ethnic Albanians in Macedonia on the outcome of the early elections, pointing that Albanian parties won up to 34 seats – the best result yet, as VV said. While we are still waiting for the final results, there is good news, a record...
Macedonia 17.07.20 | 09:08

Parties prepare for legal action after chaotic election

After the total disarray during the vote counting process, political parties are announcing they will file complaints to the State Electoral Commission. Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski said that the legal team in his VMRO-DPMNE party is preparing their list of objections to the process. The ruling...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 15:07

Ahmeti rejoices in his coming role as kingmaker

DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti gleefully predicted that will again be the kingmaker after the early elections delivered a narrow result between the two main parties, VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM. There will be grand negotiations. Grand negotiations. Mala Recica (the village near Tetovo where DUI has its party HQ)...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 13:40

Highly unusual results coming from the Election Commission throw the vote counting process in doubt

The website of the State Electoral Commission continues to be down, after the alleged hacking attack last evening, but in the brief periods it goes up it creates even more confusion in the public. Several screen shots from the website show results that are completely out of the realm of any previous...
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 09:57

OSCE will announce the initial findings of its small election monitoring mission

The small OSCE/ODIHR monitoring mission that was present for the inconclusive early general elections yesterday will hold a press conference to announce its findings. OSCE had nine members and 26 election day observers. A final report will be published within two months.
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 09:18

More than 31.000 ballots were thrown out as invalid

The State Electoral Commission informed that out of the approximately 927.000 ballots, 31.107 were invalid, with a small portion of votes left to count. Before the elections, activists from the ruling SDSM party were pushing a social media campaign to get opposition activists to spoil their ballots....
Macedonia 16.07.20 | 08:47

Electoral Commission preliminary projection shows SDSM lead by two seats in a hung Parliament

After hours of confusion caused by an apparent hacking attack, the Macedonian State Electoral Commission issued its preliminary projection of seats after the early general elections. According to the SEC, the SDSM – BESA lead coalition will have 46 seats, while the VMRO-DPMNE led coalition will...
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