Tag: elections
World 03.04.22 | 11:10

Important elections in Hungary

Hungary today holds its general elections, with 8.3 million citizens eligible to vote. The conservative Fidesz party of Viktor Orban faces a coalition of opposition parties, ranging from the far left to the far right, which are supported by powerful international political and business circles. Fidesz...
World 02.04.22 | 16:58

V4: OSCE involved in Left’s electoral fraud in Hungary

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is not concerned about the coordinated hacker attack on Hungarian conservative news portals, and it has also turned a blind eye to the dubious database of the DatAdat phishing group, which is linked to a former leftist prime minister. The...
Macedonia 03.03.22 | 23:04

Nikoloski announces protests meant to secure early general elections

VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski echoed the announcement from party leader Hristijan Mickoski, that a call will be made for street protests. Macedonia keeps wasting time with the DUI – SDSM Government. If we had elections on time, after the local elections, in the second half of December,...
Macedonia 21.02.22 | 15:12

Sooner or later, we will have early elections, Mickoski responds to Kovacevski

Sooner or later, we will have early elections, VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski told Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski, after Kovacevski said that he refuses to have a meeting of the two leaders if Mickoski insists that the only issue on the agenda are early elections. I don’t expect that...
Macedonia 07.02.22 | 17:01

Kovacevski rejects call for early elections

Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski dismissed the opposition calls for early elections. Even though he was appointed without standing in elections, Kovacevski insists that his slim majority in Parliament is sufficient to carry the SDSM – DUI led coalition to the end of the term, in 2024. Elections...
Macedonia 06.02.22 | 10:47

Trajanov predicts that VMRO and SDSM would lose a dozen seats each in a single district electoral model

DS party leader Pavle Trajanov predicts that the large parties like VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM will lose about a dozen MPs if the proposal to form a single electoral district is accepted. The current division of the electorate in six districts harms smaller parties like DS, who are forced to join VMRO or SDSM...
Macedonia 02.02.22 | 17:31

Albanian parties oppose VMRO proposal for a single electoral district

Albanian political parties are opposed to the proposal from VMRO-DPMNE and a group of smaller parties, to abolish the six electoral districts and conduct general elections in one single district. The only majority ethnic Albanian district in Macedonia, the 6th, north-western district, is greatly reduced...
Macedonia 23.01.22 | 12:16

VMRO-DPMNE will submit a proposal for changes to the electoral code and for early elections to Parliament

The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party will submit a proposal for early elections to the Parliament tomorrow.  The party is proposing changes to the electoral code, and abolishing the rule that the opposition needs to have its own officials assigned to several key Government departments 100 days ahead of elections....
Macedonia 21.01.22 | 21:40

VMRO-DPMNE will propose a law to end the technical Government rule and allow early elections in 45 to 60 days

On Monday, VMRO-DPMNE will propose a law to Parliament that will end the requirement to have a broad, technical Government in place before general elections, said party leader Hristijan Mickoski. During his Sitel TV interview, Mickoski said that this is part of a proposal to hold early general elections...
Macedonia 17.12.21 | 14:22

After the new EU veto, Mickoski demands early elections in May

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called for the creation of a technical Government in February and early general elections in May, in light of the failure of the Zaev Government to secure the opening of EU accession talks despite all its concessions on national identity issues. Bulgaria vetoed...
Macedonia 14.12.21 | 13:23

Nikoloski: We need early elections before our problems become unsolvable

Only early elections can put in place a stable Government that will be able to handle the deep problems Macedonia is facing, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Aleksandar Nikoloski. If we allow this coalition to remain in place for two and a half years more, the problems will multiply and become so difficult...
Macedonia 12.12.21 | 17:16

Turnout in SDSM leadership election improves, reaches almost 50 percent by 14h

Turnout in the SDSM leadership elections rose to 47 percent by 14h. This is an improvement to the very slow start to the vote, where only 12 percent voted by 11h. Over 60,000 SDSM party members are eligible to vote for a new party leader, as Zoran Zaev is leaving the helm after his major defeat in the...
Macedonia 11.12.21 | 21:46

Zaev’s term as SDSM party leader ends tomorrow

On Sunday, SDSM is scheduled to hold a party wide vote to elect a new leader. With this, the 12 years term of Zoran Zaev as leader of the party comes to an end. In his term, Zaev funded the party using his various businesses, and then organized the 2015 Colored Revolution, during which with significant...
Macedonia 01.12.21 | 13:25

DUI could use the divisions in the Albanian opposition to call for early elections

The splintering in the ethnic Albanian opposition could prompt the DUI party to call for early elections and solidify its position as king-maker in Parliament. DUI faced a collapse of its coalition with SDSM as the opposition VMRO-DPMNE party was joined by three ethnic Albanian opposition parties –...
Macedonia 17.11.21 | 14:05

Mickoski calls on Zaev and Ahmeti to allow early elections without delay

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski called on Zoran Zaev to drop his attempts to shore up his crumbling coalition, and to agree to early elections. Zaev narrowly survived an attempted vote of no confidence last week, when an opposition member of Parliament went missing – and was apparently...
Macedonia 15.11.21 | 12:24

Only 650 votes cast in polling stations in Macedonia for the Bulgarian elections

Of the more than 100,000 Macedonian citizens who hold a dual Bulgarian citizenship, only about 650 votes yesterday in the general and presidential elections. Most of the votes in the Bulgarian Embassy in Skopje and consulates across the country were cast for the GERB party (207), followed by the nationalist...
Balkans 14.11.21 | 22:13

New protest party expected to win the elections in Bulgaria, but again no easy path to majority

Exit polls show that Bulgaria will have another fragmented Parliament, with the conservative GERB party on course to lose to a newly formed protest party called We Keep the Change by a few points – both parties are estimated at between 23 and 26 percent of the vote. Third ranked is the Turkish...
Macedonia 14.11.21 | 10:34

Citizens of Debar vote in mayoral elections

Citizens of Debar vote today in the second round of their mayoral elections. They are the last municipality in Macedonia not to elect a mayor, because of issues at one polling station in the city. The race is fought between candidates of the Alliance of Albanians and DUI – which held the city for...
Macedonia 04.11.21 | 16:08

The local elections painted the political map of Macedonia red

Kurir reported on the accumulated results from the two rounds of the local elections, and on the scope of the VMRO-DPMNE victory over SDSM. Their report comes after the SDSM party tried to portray the election as actually a win for the ruling coalition – if you put all their separate vote totals...
Macedonia 04.11.21 | 15:00

Misajlovski: We need snap elections

We won in 42 municipalities and the city of Skopje, and the difference in votes is over 55,000 votes. The difference from both rounds of the local elections is 110,000 votes. That is why we need snap elections, said VMRO-DPMNE Vice President Vladimir Misajlovski. Zoran Zaev announced that he will resign...
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