Tag: elections
Macedonia 15.06.20 | 11:14

Misajlovski calls on President Pendarovski to look beyond his blind loyalty to the SDSM party

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski called on President Stevo Pendarovski to drop his blind loyalty to the ruling SDSM party and begin acting like a head of state for all its citizens. Pendarovski joined Zoran Zaev in his push for quick “corona elections” in July and put an end...
Macedonia 15.06.20 | 10:56

Zaev pushes Macedonia into a political crisis with his demand for “corona elections” in July

Macedonia enters into a political crisis, as the ruling SDSM party demands that elections take place on July 5, without reaching agreement on the date with the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party. The State Electoral Commission did not meet yesterday as its President Oliver Derkoski said that the elections have...
Macedonia 14.06.20 | 18:25

Zaev is not giving up holding elections on 5 July, he is determined to obtain a new term without the opposition

SDSM leader Zoran Zaev wrote on Facebook after the press conference by Hristijan Mickoski, at which he said that there were no conditions to hold elections on July 5 or 8 because there will bo no presence of observers from the OSCE/ODIHR. In his address, Zaev does not mention the observers at all, but...
Macedonia 14.06.20 | 18:01

Derkoski will not convene a session until Xhaferi officially schedules the elections

The President of the State Election Commission (SEC) Oliver Derkoski believes that there is no reason to schedule a SEC session due to the fact that, according to him, in order to continue the entire election process, Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi should first make a decision on a new election date....
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 21:56

Zaev and Mickoski fail to agree on an election date

The leaders of the two main parties in Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski and Zoran Zaev, failed to reach agreement on the date of the next elections. President Stevo Pendarovski, who came out heavily on the side of his party leader Zaev today and ended the state of emergency, which leaves Macedonai without...
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 20:06

US Ambassador urges Macedonia to hold elections

US Ambassador to Macedonia Kate Byrnes called on the country to hold elections. The statement came as the leaders of the two main parties, Hristijan Mickoski and Zoran Zaev were meeting to discuss a date for elections. Macedonia needs an elected, fully functioning Government and Parliament to manage...
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 19:57

SDSM activists filmed bribing voters in a village near Tetovo

A video shows SDSM party activists delivering packages with food stamped with the party logo in the village of Sarakino near Tetovo. The campaign is clearly part of widespread bribery of voters the ruling party is conducting across the country, in violation of both electoral rules and coronavirus restrictions. Село...
Macedonia 12.06.20 | 15:06

Zaev: We can’t expect that the number of cases will drop, the numbers will be similar or the same after one, two or five months

Zoran Zaev, the president of SDSM, said at Friday’s press conference that the announced parliamentary elections do not depend on the daily numbers of positive cases of Covid-19, regardless of whether they will be held on 5 July, 8 July or later. People are going in the parks, in the catering facilities,...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 23:21

Zaev: If parties fail to agree on the elections, then the Constitution and the law will decide

Elections should be held as soon as possible, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev urged once again Thursday evening. To establish the institutions, those institutions to have full responsibility, and not a political quarrel because it is important and healthy for the state to have a Parliament in a parliamentary...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 21:55

Government’s Decree cannot set election date, only the Speaker of Parliament can call the elections

An election date cannot be set by a Decree. The Constitution, more precisely Article 67, paragraph 4, it is clearly stated that only the Speaker of Parliament can call the elections. This is the position of the experts consulted by “Republika” after yesterday the Government tasked the Ministry...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 14:56

As doubts grow whether he can stand up to his party, Pendarovski says he will announce his decision tomorrow

President Stevo Pendarovski announced that he will hold a press conference tomorrow, when he will say whether he will extend the state of emergency beyond the middle of June. With his SDSM party demanding elections as early as July 5, Pendarovski can instill some reason in the party, and delay their...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 12:59

Derkoski: Decrees issued by the Government lose their power once the state of emergency ends

Oliver Derkoski, the head of the State Electoral Commission (SEC) who yesterday warned the Government that it is not possible to hold elections on July 5, the date which the SDSM led Government insists on. Hours after Derkoski’s comments the Government issued a decree which SDSM insists will mandate...
Macedonia 11.06.20 | 12:31

Zaev is pushing Macedonia toward a political crisis and illegitimate elections

After briefly dropping under a 100 on Tuesday (87), the number of newly diagnosed coronavirus patients again rose over 100 on Wednesday (125). This dispelled hopes that the Second Wave of the epidemic may be on the wane. There was only one day with more than 100 diagnosed patients in April and none in...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 22:31

EU Commissioner Varhelyi warned Zaev that he can’t set the election date on his own – the process must be inclusive

European Commissioner for Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi spoke with the leaders of the two main parties in Macedonia, Hristijan Mickoski and Zoran Zaev this evening, and warned that the elections must be held in a way that is fair and inclusive. The conversation comes as Zaev and his ruling SDSM party are...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 22:20

It may fall to Stevo Pendarovski to talk his SDSM party off the ledge

As SDSM intensifies its push for holding “corona elections” on July 5, despite the disastrously bad infection and mortality rates and the on-going Second Wave of the epidemic, it may fall to President Stevo Pendarovski to talk some sense into his party. SDSM insists that Pendarovski has the...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 19:55

Head of the State Electoral Commission says that it’s not possible to organize elections in 22 days, as SDSM insists

The head of the State Electoral Commission (SEC) Oliver Derkoski said that the SEC is not able to simply resume election preparations where they were left off when the elections were postponed. The ruling SDSM party demands that election preparations resume as soon as its loyalist, President Stevo Pendarovski,...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 17:02

Despite the record death toll, Sekerinska insists on holding elections in July

Despite the exceptionally bad coroanvirus daily toll, SDSM Vice President Radmila Sekerinska today insisted that the elections must take place on July 5. She excused the reason for holding such “corona elections” with the need to give political legitimacy to the Government. SDSM apparently...
Macedonia 10.06.20 | 15:48

7 people die, 125 Covid-19 cases is just a number for Zaev, he is calling for elections

While the Ministry of Health informs that 7 people have died from the coronavirus, the leader of SDSM and former Prime Minister of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, is calling for elections. For him, the seven deaths are just a number. 125 new Covid-19 cases, of which 89 are from Skopje, is a matter of concern...
Macedonia 09.06.20 | 23:09

DUI fears the Albanian diaspora, that’s why it wants elections on July 5

It is not true that VMRO-DPMNE demanded elections on July 15, the party reacted to today’s statements of DUI Vice President Artan Grubi. We will not give meaning to such inaccurate statements, but what is true is that DUI wants elections on July 5, not in the middle or at the end of the month,...
Macedonia 09.06.20 | 14:41

SDSM renews its push for “corona elections” in July

Even as the Government meets to discuss reintroducing the curfew in light of the dramatic spike in Covid-19 cases, its representatives told Fokus that there is no need to extend the state of emergency. President Pendarovski last extended the state of emergency, that allows the Government to rule by decree,...
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