Tag: local elections 2021
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 10:53

Voting runs fast, with no problems and without delays

Voting in the second round of the seventh local elections since the country’s independence began at 7am. Voting runs fast, with no problems and without delays. Unlike the first round, when there were 4 ballots in Skopje, now it is 1, except in Karpos and Centar, where there are 2 ballots each,...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 10:13

Voter turnout until 9 am almost double than that in the first round of elections

According to SEC, voter turnout in Sunday’s second round of local elections is 5.25% until 9 am, i.e. 56,700 voters exercised their voting rights. In the first round of local elections, voter turnout was 3.30% of registered voters. This means that now almost twice as many voters cast their vote. Voter...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:57

Voter turnout 5.25% until 9 am

Voter turnout in Sunday’s second round of local elections is 5.25% until 9 am, the President of the State Election Commission, Aleksandar Dastevski informed. He pointed out that so far, according to their information, 56,700 voters exercised their voting rights. There is a high turnout until 9 am in...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:48

Albanian emigrants come to Kicevo to vote in the second round of mayoral election

By bus, plane or own car, a large number of ethnic Albanian emigrants from Kicevo and the Kicevo region working in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany and other European countries, poured in Kicevo in the last 24 hours to vote in the second round of local elections, in which they will support DUI candidate...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:21

SEC to release preliminary results from local elections within 12 hours

The State Election Commission (SEC) should release preliminary results from the local elections as they are being sent by the municipal election committees. Results based on data from records of the municipal election commissions are released within 12 hours after the polling stations are closed. The...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:19

Ombudsman launches free phone line for citizens to report voting rights violations

Citizens will be able to report voting rights violations for the second round of 2021 local elections on the free phone line 0800-54321 which will be operating from 7am to 9pm launched by the Ombudsman Office. The Ombudsman Office also informed that all seven offices of the Ombudsman in Skopje, Bitola,...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:14

SEC launches free phone line for citizens to report election irregularities

The State Election Commission launched Sunday the free phone line 0800-55544, on which citizens will be able to report election irregularities and voting rights violations for the second round of 2021 local elections. All interested citizens can call or leave a comment to the SEC together with their...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 09:04

1,598 observers, journalists and translators accredited for the second round of local elections

A total of 1,598 local and foreign observers, journalists and translators have been accredited for Sunday’s second round of local elections. According to data from the State Election Commission (SEC), most of the local observers monitoring the elections are from AKSIOS 2017 Civil Association in Skopje,...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 08:50

Voters elect mayors in 44 municipalities

Voting the second round of local elections is held Sunday in 44 municipalities. There will be a re-vote at two polling stations in Debar and in Suto Orizari. These are the seventh local elections since Macedonia’s independence and the second, after last year’s parliamentary elections, held...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 08:38

Ruling party members threaten opposition leader, opposition lawmaker and journalists

Tensions between journalists and persons participating in vote buying in Kocani. Infomax crew reported that they were verbally assaulted in the Roma neighborhood where they were trying to film a party headquarters that was open during the election silence and where, as one of the people present there...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 08:33

Will there be sanctions for Saturday’s vote buying? The reaction of the international community and domestic institutions is expected

Vote buying, threats, attacked journalists… chaos during the election silence. It seems that what happened in the first round was copied on Saturday, but twice as much. Across Macedonia, members and activists of the ruling political party are trying in every possible way to get votes, violating the...
Macedonia 31.10.21 | 08:26

Police official in Ohrid filmed distributing bribe to voters?

A senior police official from Ohrid was filmed distributing bribe to votersSaturday night, “Infomax” reported. It is allegedly the chief of the Ohrid police department, S.S.
Macedonia 30.10.21 | 15:57

Public Prosecutor’s Office monitors election process

Macedonia’s Public Prosecutor’s Office continues to monitor activities related to the electoral process through an interim commission, which can proceed upon crimes against elections and voting of the Criminal Code, it said in a press release on Saturday. The public prosecutors are committed in the...
Macedonia 30.10.21 | 15:46

Voter bribery reported in Lozovo

A ruling party was noticed in Lozovo distributing packages during pre-election silence.
Macedonia 30.10.21 | 13:34

Free phone line for citizens to report voting rights violations

Citizens will be able to report voting rights violations for the second round of 2021 local elections on the free phone line 0800-54321 which will be operating from 7am to 9pm launched by the Ombudsman Office. The Ombudsman Office also informed that all seven offices of the Ombudsman in Skopje, Bitola,...
Macedonia 30.10.21 | 09:27

Voting in second round of elections to take place in 44 municipalities

In the second round of the local elections, which will be held on Sunday, October 31, 2021, voting will take place in a total of 44 municipalities. 1,353,990 voters are eligible to vote at 2,481 polling stations. There will be a re-vote for mayor and council at a polling station in Debar, and a re-vote...
Macedonia 29.10.21 | 16:01

Kovacki: People from SDSM confirmed to us that the government has a plan for ballot stuffing in Bitola and Saraj and bribery in several municipalities

The government is in a panic, just like in the first round when it lost catastrophically, so for the second round it has hired people to bribe the voters, Dragan Kovacki from VMRO-DPMNE EC warned at Friday’s press conference, adding that SDSM wants to mitigate defeat and therefore hires people...
Macedonia 29.10.21 | 12:57

Mickoski: Macedonia’s future is in the EU and there is no alternative to that path

People are rightly disappointed and feel that they have sacrificed too much for something they did not get. At the same time, I would like to emphasize that the unserious attitude of the Macedonian government, which traded with the most sacred things for the Macedonian people, the identity issues that...
Macedonia 29.10.21 | 12:39

Mickoski: We have a choice to continue with the old way or finally change things and move towards changes, projects and victories that will bring a new future

For Macedonia, these are very important elections in many respects, they define the determination of the citizens whether they want to change something or the country will continue with the old way of working. For five years, the country has been regressing, and in terms of EU integration, we have not...
Macedonia 29.10.21 | 12:10

Mickoski: Zaev’s government loses political legitimacy and credibility, they are declassified in Skopje and other big cities

Zaev’s government is losing its political legitimacy and credibility, because it did not justify the expectations for which it gained the trust of the people, said VMRO-DPMNE leader, Hristijan Mickoski in an interview with the “Politika” daily newspaper. Mickoski added that the government...
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