Tag: elections
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 17:35

Zaev pushes for elections at any cost: 150 thousand euros for pens for each voter

Elections will be held, even if we would have to buy pens for every voter, this is the latest idea of SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, who is calling for snap elections in the midst of pandemic, when almost all countries are postponing elections. The former prime minister yesterday gave proposal to hold elections...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 15:18

Zaev asks Minister Culev to resign over a gathering of a thousand people, while demanding that a million voters go to the polls

During a TV interview yesterday SDSM leader Zoran Zaev demanded a resignation from Interior Minister Nake Culev, the only remaining top level government member appointed from the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party under the power-sharing pre-election agreement. Zaev accused Culev because the police did not...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 12:53

No rallies, masks and keeping distance: proposals for voting during the coronavirus epidemic

The Committee on infectious diseases prepared a protocol that should be used during the next elections, to reduce the number of voters who will get infected. According to the proposal, the campaign events should require keeping participants at a distance of 1,5 to 2 meters, which would prevent the usual...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 12:28

Geroski: Zaev asked for support from Brussels to hold “corona elections” and to remove Mickoski as VMRO leader

Journalist Branko Geroski reports that SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev sent a letter members of the European Parliament asking for their support in the coming elections, and promising that he will faithfully implement the treaties he signed with Greece and Bulgaria. In the letter, Zaev also allegedly asks...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 10:59

VMRO-DPMNE: SDSM push for elections in June will cost lives

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party accused SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev of pushing for early elections that will cost voters their lives. Zaev demands that the elections take place in June or early July, counting that the low turnout, as well as reasons linked to the economy and the treaty with Bulgaria,...
Macedonia 14.05.20 | 09:42

Osmani: It’s difficult to talk elections while people are still being put on mechanical ventilation

Deputy Prime Minister Bujar Osmani said that it is difficult to talk about holding elections at a time when new patients are placed on mechanical ventilation every day. Osmani, who is from the DUI party, was asked about the push by Zoran Zaev to hold “corona elections” in June or early July,...
Macedonia 13.05.20 | 20:18

Constitutional Court to discuss election-related issues on Thursday

Constitutional justices at a session on Thursday will discuss the State Election Commission’s obligation to issue a timeline with election activities a day after the state of emergency is declared over. The decree with the force of law involving issues in connection to the election is the fourth item...
Macedonia 13.05.20 | 17:19

Spasovski: Government drafting detailed protocol on election campaign, polling day activities

The government is drafting a detailed protocol on how election campaign and polling day activities will be conducted, Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski said Wednesday during an inspection of construction works on the Stip-Radovis expressway. Protocols stress the importance of social distancing and wearing...
Macedonia 13.05.20 | 11:36

VMRO: “Zaev misrepresented the positions of other party leaders, he is the only one pushing for elections before it’s safe to vote”

Following the meeting of party leaders yesterday, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev sought to leave an impression that all other leaders agreed to hold elections at one of his preferred dates – in mid June and no later than early July. Even as other leaders listed all the pre-conditions, such as having the...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 21:45

Bozinovski: Badly organized elections will just create a political crisis

We should and must hold elections to form a functional Parliament, but that mustn’t come at the expense of human lives, and poorly organized elections would just cause a political crisis, said pollster and political commentator Vladimir Bozinovski, as leaders of main parties were discussing a way...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 17:36

Other leaders accept Mickoski’s four point plan for elections

Party leaders agreed to the four principles laid out by opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski that need to be met for elections to take place. Mickoski said that there needs to be a full international monitoring team from OSCE/ODIHR, that healthcare experts make the proposal when conditions for voting...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 17:33

Sela demands that an OSCE monitoring mission is deployed for elections to take place

Ziadin Sela, leader of the Alliance of Albanians, said that elections can’t be held without an OSCE monitoring mission being deployed to protect against election rigging. The state will ask this international institution if it is prepared to send a monitoring mission. At the same time, we need...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 17:11

Zaev again demands elections as soon as possible, says we have to live with the virus

Following the meeting of party leaders convened by President Pendarovski, SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev came out again with a request that elections are held in June, mid July at the latest. Zaev has been pushing for early elections for weeks, even trying to re-convene the Parliament unilaterally, to...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 16:48

Party leaders fail to agree on a new election date

The meeting of top party leaders convened by President Stevo Pendarovski, concluded after several hours, with no agreement on when can early elections be held. During the meeting SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev insisted that the elections take place as soon as possible – the option mockingly called...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 15:07

Taravari: Small number of coronavirus tests performed is intentional because they want to hold elections as soon as possible!?

The Secretary General of the Alliance of Albanians and Mayor of the Municipality of Gostivar, Arben Taravari believes that it is not a problem to go to the polls in 10 days, but due to the coronavirus, he believes that elections and campaigns should be in the period when the temperatures are highest....
World 12.05.20 | 14:50

Postponed elections due to Covid-19

Africa All municipal by-elections and voter registration activities in South Africa (originally planned for March-May 2020) Municipal in elections in Hassi El Ferid, and Jbeniana, Tunisia (originally scheduled for 28-29 March 2020) By-elections for senatorial district in Bayelsa, Imo and Plateau, Nigeria...
Macedonia 12.05.20 | 14:29

Leaders’ meeting begins – will elections be held in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic?!

The leaders’ meeting hosted by President Stevo Pendarovski, which will focus on the date of the early parliamentary elections that were to be held on April 12, but were postponed by a government decree due to the declaration of a state of emergency and the spread of Covid-19, has begun. Leaders...
Macedonia 11.05.20 | 22:08

Mancevski: If for some reason it is not possible to hold the elections, we will respect that

SDSM’s position is that in mid-June there is an opportunity to organize elections, the Minister of Information Society and Administration and Vice President of SDSM Damjan Mancevski said Monday on TV 24. According to Mancevski, the first opportunity to organize elections must be seized. What will...
Macedonia 11.05.20 | 20:39

DUI is ready for elections, but they will not rush to hold them

In reality, as a ruling party, elections suit us to be held as soon as possible, but we do not precipitate when to hold them. All aspects of the possible second coronavirus peak in September should be taken into account, so that a real decision can be made on the date of the elections, although some...
Macedonia 11.05.20 | 19:22

28 days without a single registered case, then elections, epidemiologists warn

28 days without a single registered case, then elections. Epidemiologists warn that mass gatherings such as elections at a time when the coronavirus outbreak is still ongoing are out of the question. Sitel also asked for an opinion on this issue from the members of the Commission for Infectious Diseases,...
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