Tag: iri
Economy 11.07.23 | 13:07

Only 4% of the Macedonian citizens have no financial problems

Only 4% of Macedonian citizens declared having enough money to pay for the monthly expenses without a problem, 64% can barely do that, while 29% said that their salaries are far from enough for a family’s basic needs, the latest IRI poll revealed. What is different from other years is that 3.5...
News Macedonia 11.07.23 | 12:12

IRI poll: VMRO-DPMNE with almost a double lead over SDSM

The latest public opinion poll conducted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) reveals that if elections were next week, 19% of the voters would vote for VMRO-dpmne. The poll was conducted from April 8 until May 2023, on a sample of 1208 respondents. Asked the same question, 11% of voters...
Macedonia 10.07.23 | 18:46

Large majority of citizens believe that Macedonia is going in a wrong direction

The IRI poll published today shows that a large majority of citizens feel that the country is going on the wrong direction. 56 percent of those polled said that Macedonia is going in the wrong direction, while 29 percent said that they are neutral on the issue. Only 14 percent said that the country is...
Macedonia 06.07.23 | 21:19

VMRO-DPMNE will not accept the Bulgarian constitutional demands, Mickoski tells IRI official McCarthy

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with Paul McCarthy, Europe director for the International Republican Institute. During the meeting, the opposition leader emphasized that VMRO-DPMNE will not support the Bulgarian request that Macedonia amends the Constitution. Mickoski used the meeting to...
Macedonia 12.04.22 | 17:30

Mickoski meets Olin Wethington, member of IRI Board of Directors

VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski together with the Vice President Timco Mucunski and the Secretary for International Cooperation of the party Stefan Andonovski met Tuesday with Olin Wethington, member of the Board of Directors of the International Republican Institute (IRI). Mickoski expressed great...
Macedonia 07.03.22 | 13:41

IRI poll shows VMRO-DPMNE well ahead of SDSM

The latest poll by the International Republican Institute shows VMRO-DPMNE likely to win against SDSM at the next general elections. The conservative opposition party ranks at 20 percent among the public, while SDSM support is ranked at 17 percent. Third ranked is the DUI party with support of about...
Macedonia 21.06.21 | 13:07

Public distrust in the Government could cost Zaev in October

The recently published IRI poll showed that trust in the Zaev Government is going down in key metrics, ahead of the municipal elections scheduled in October. Only 3 percent said that the Government dedicates itself to solving the most important problems in Macedonia. Against them, 31 percent said that...
Macedonia 16.06.21 | 13:04

Poll shows that 53 percent of citizens want a replace their mayor at the coming municipal elections

A new poll conducted by Brima and published by IRI today, in the run up to the October municipal elections, shows that a majority of citizens want to replace their incumbent mayors. The SDSM party holds a vast majority of mayoral positions across Macedonia, due to its sweep in the 2017 elections. Now,...
Macedonia 07.06.20 | 16:54

Shocking IRI poll raises serious concerns for the state of Macedonian democracy

The IRI poll of five Balkan countries, that was published yesterday, revealed shocking data about the state of democracy in Macedonia. Macedonia ranks tied with famously dysfunctional Bosnia in how badly the citizens perceive the state of their democracy. All other countries whose citizens were polled...
Macedonia 05.06.20 | 18:14

Zaev and Mickoski with same ratings among Macedonians, ratings of Ahmeti and Sela same among Albanians

A poll conducted by the US International Republican Institute (IRI) shows that the support that Zoran Zaev enjoyed was almost halved between January and February this year, even before the coronavirus outbreak began. In the IRI poll published in February, Zaev enjoyed 13 percent popularity, while in...
Macedonia 16.03.20 | 15:42

IRI poll: SDSM support drops by 20% in two years

The number of people who supported SDSM two years ago dropped by 20% today, according to an IRI poll ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections, according to which 21% of voters would vote for SDSM in 2018, today the number has dropped to 17 %. Which in the absolute amount of figures is a drop of...
Macedonia 10.03.20 | 20:27

The main problem is the SDSM generated crime and corruption, Mickoski says during a meeting with IRI board member Wethington

VMRO-DPMNE party leader Hristijan Mickoski met with Olin Wethington, board member of the International Republican Institute, who is visiting Macedonia. During the meeting, Mickoski warned that Macedonia is facing serious problems given the high levels of crime and corruption generated by the SDSM party...
Macedonia 06.02.20 | 12:22

VMRO officials Nikoloski and Milososki met with IRI director McCarthy

VMRO-DPMNE officials Aleksandar Nikoloski and Antonio Milososki met with the head of the International Republican Institute for Europe Paul McCarthy to discuss enhancing cooperation between the two conservative institutions. Nikoloski and Milososki are in D.C. for the National prayer breakfast hosted...
Macedonia 07.10.19 | 10:24

Mickoski meets IRI board member Wethington

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with Olin Wethington, member of the board of director of the International Republican Institute. Wethington is a former high level Treasury and trade official and is now also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Mickoski said that tthe meeting, which included...
Macedonia 21.05.19 | 19:26

VMRO leader Mickoski meets with IRI European director McCarthy

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski met with Paul McCarthy, head of the International Republican Institute’s European desk, and discussed future cooperation between the large American conservative institution and Macedonia’s main opposition party. We discussed the current political situation,...
Macedonia 09.02.19 | 11:56

VMRO deputy leader Nikoloski meets with State Departement, IRI and Heritage representatives

VMRO-DPMNE Deputy President Aleksandar Nikoloski continues with his meetings in Washington D.C., where he attended the National Prayer Breakfast. Nikoloski met with Heritage Foundation official Luke Coffey, Matthew Palmer from the State Depatment and International Republic Institute representatives Paul...

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