Tag: elections
Macedonia 23.03.20 | 10:23

Election preparations stop after Spasovski says he will use emergency powers to set a new election date

The State Electral Commission stopped work on preparing the early general elections that are planned for April 12 after interim Prime Minister Oliver Spasovski said that the Government will use its emergency powers to postpone the elections. Parliament dissolved in mid February and Speaker Talat Xhaferi...
Macedonia 17.03.20 | 17:05

Legal experts tasked with finding a way to recall the dissolved Parliament

Several legal experts, from various political sides, have been tasked to work on coming up with a way to reconvene the Parliament and postpone the elections scheduled for April 12. This was decided at the meeting of party leaders at the office of President Stevo Pendarovski, where an agreement was reached...
Macedonia 17.03.20 | 15:46

Mickoski: We agreed to postpone the elections, we call for 30-day crisis situation

We agreed that the health of our citizens is above all, we unanimously agreed that the elections should be postponed and that a legal basis should be found for how it should be implemented, while respecting the Constitution and respecting the laws, said Hristijan Mickoski, VMRO-DPMNE leader,  after...
Macedonia 17.03.20 | 14:54

Elections to be postponed

Party leaders agreed over the postponement of the April 12 parliamentary elections at a meeting hosted by President Stevo Pendarovski on Tuesday. People’s health is a priority in the current situation with the coronavirus, they say. The meeting was attended by SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, VMRO-DPMNE’s...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 21:53

Pendarovski and Xhaferi had different opinions over whether the Parliament can reconvene again

President Stevo Pendarovski and Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi were again divided over the issue of whether Macedonia can call off the early elections once the Parliament has dissolved. The Security Council met today to discuss the coronavirus epidemic and Pendarovski insisted that it’s possible...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 16:52

Party leaders meet tomorrow at noon to discuss postponing the elections

The leaders of the main Macedonian parties will meet tomorrow at noon at President Pendarovski’s residence to discuss the request to postpone the elections. The call came from opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski, who cited the threat of spreading the coronavirus during the voting process as a...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 12:27

Mickoski: Leaders’ meeting to discuss postponing the elections in the interest of the citizens and the state

With such analyzes and forecasts, the elections would mean opening new hot spots with coronavirus, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski said Monday, adding that he would call today for a leaders’ meeting with President Stevo Pendarovski to discuss postponing the early parliamentary elections...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 10:01

SEC to confirm the candidate lists by tomorrow

The State Election Commission is due to confirm today, and no later than tomorrow, the candidate lists of the coalitions and political parties for the April 12 elections. Candidate lists were submitted ro the SEC by 15 coalitions and political parties, and so far only the “Vote for Macedonia”...
Macedonia 15.03.20 | 16:06

Xhaferi: It’s difficult to call off the elections

Parliament Speaker Talat Xhaferi said that legally it will be very difficult to call off the elections scheduled on April 12. Xhaferi said that he will discuss the issue at the coming meeting of the Security Council, after members of the State Electoral Commission expressed concern about voting during...
Macedonia 15.03.20 | 15:44

SDSM representatives walk back their call to postpone the elections because of the coronavirus

After calling for the elections to be postponed, the SDSM party representatives in the State Electoral Commission walked back their proposal later today. The announcement was made this morning, when the SEC held a briefing during which the two SDSM representatives Boris Kondarko and Janaki Vitanovski...
Macedonia 15.03.20 | 12:20

SEC proposes that the elections are postponed

The State Electoral Commission members suggested that the early general elections, scheduled on April 12, are postponed due to the coronavirus. The proposals came from the SDSM party nominated members of the SEC, while SEC President Oliver Derkovski, nominated by VMRO-DPMNE, said that a decision needs...
Macedonia 13.03.20 | 23:12

Durlovski: Macedonia endured a national humiliation over the past three years

Over the past three years Macedonia endured a national humiliation, said opera singer and political dissident Igor Durlovski, who leads the VMRO-DPMNE list in the 5th electoral district. We protested in 2017 to warn about what is going to happen to Macedonia. What happened were three years of national...
Macedonia 13.03.20 | 16:34

Pendarovski raises the prospect of canceling the elections

President Stevo Pendarovski, who announced that he will convene the Security Council to discuss the coronavirus next week, raised the issue of canceling the elections scheduled on April 12. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if the elections were postponed a month or two, Pendarovski said, citing...
Macedonia 13.03.20 | 12:07

Durlovski: The fight for better life and happier present should be conducted in dignified manner

In an interview with Faktor.mk, Igor Durlovski spoke about considering being on the list of the upcoming parliamentary elections. He will head the list in the fifth election district, and he did not decide immediately after Hristijan Mickoski’s offer, but is now convinced that VMRO-DPMNE will win...
Macedonia 12.03.20 | 17:03

Zaev: The elections are not canceled, SDSM will campaign over Facebook

SDSM party leader Zoran Zaev said that party leaders have agred not to cancel the early elections scheduled for April 12. SDSM will campaign through Facebook, to reduce exposure of its supporters to the coronavirus, he added. The health of the citizens is the top priority for the institutions and the...
Macedonia 12.03.20 | 14:33

Thimonier: Upcoming campaign and parliamentary elections will be closely monitored, citizens to go to the polls en masse

Christian Thimonier, the French Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, believes that citizens should be more active in the reform process and go to the polls en masse. After his visit to Gostivar municipality, he announced that the forthcoming campaign and parliamentary elections would be closely monitored. Thimonier...
Macedonia 11.03.20 | 19:20

Zoran Zaev, I will defeat you on April 12!

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski commented on Facebook on the fake news that today’s media close to SDSM spread among the public, sending a message to Zoran Zaev that he was aware that his “machinery” producing fake news will try to harm his reputation during the campaign...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 23:22

Culev: MoI is mapping places where to increase police presence on election day

The Interior Ministry will dispatch more police forces in regions or polling stations where there have been major disruptions to the electoral process in the past, Interior Minister Nake Culev said on Alsat’s “200” show on Tuesday. As he said, the MoI is mapping such places and will...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 22:11

Party leaders meet on Thursday to discuss the effects of the coronavirus

Opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski informed that public that a meeting of party leaders is called up for Thursday, to discuss the effect of the coronavirus on the elections. So far healthcare officials are proposing bans on gatherings of more than a 1.000 people, which may prevent holding the usual...
Macedonia 07.03.20 | 19:46

DPA to run alone at elections

The Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) will run alone at the coming parliamentary elections, decided the party’s presidency in Tetovo on Saturday. At the session, the party president referred to the situation, a debate began and a decision was made. DPA will run alone at the coming parliamentary...
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