Tag: president
Macedonia 12.02.19 | 10:06

Vladimir Gjorcev meets VMRO supporters in Skopje, asks for their help in his presidential campaign

Vladimir Gjorcev, one of the leading contenders for the VMRO-DPMNE presidential nomination, met with party members in Skopje’s central areas and Butel, where he presented his program for the coming elections. Gjorcev resumed his campaign after a visit to D.C., where he attended the National Prayer...

Macedonia 07.02.19 | 11:38

Amdi Bajram expects that SDSM voters who he gave the finger in 2012 will still vote for him

Amdi Bajram, leader of one of the main Roma parties in Macedonia, who is running for President at the elections in April, said that he expects even his political opponents, who he famously gave the finger to, to vote for him. My goal is to unite the people for a better future. You see what is happening...

Macedonia 07.02.19 | 11:28

Dimitrov still considering whether to run for President

Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Dimitrov said that he is still considering whether to run for President at the coming elections. I have a daily discussion with myself over that issue, but at the moment I think we need to consider what type of a person we need, given the experience of the past 10 years,...

Macedonia 05.02.19 | 19:32

Professor Siljanovska promises to be voice of reason and justice if elected President of the Republic of Macedonia

Law professor Gordana Siljanovska Davkova published her first video address after deciding to run for President and to seek the VMRO-DPMNE nomination. Siljanovska is an outspoken critic of the Prespa Agreement to rename Macedonia into North Macedonia, and the author of a book length analysis pointing...

Macedonia 01.02.19 | 14:31

Samka Ibraimovski plans a presidential run

Samka Ibraimovski from the Party for full emancipation of the Roma, said that he is considering a presidential bid. Ibraimovski told Republika that his party is preparing four potential presidential candidates, and that he is one of them. The party will decide on its nominee by February 10th. Ibraimovski...

Macedonia 01.02.19 | 13:38

BESA and Alliance of Albanians will field a joint presidential candidate

The two oppostion ethnic Albanian parties BESA and the Alliance of Albanians, said that they have an agreement in principle to run a joint candidate in the coming presidential elections. The Bilal Kasami and Ziadin Sela led parties recently jointly pressured Prime Minister Zoran Zaev to accept a number...

Macedonia 29.01.19 | 10:56

Sela calls on ethnic Albanians to vote for an ethnic Albanian presidential candidate

Ziadin Sela, leader of the opposition Alliance of Albanians, said that ethnic Albanian voters should support an ethnic Albanian presidential candidate in the coming elections. This flies in the face of the calls from the ruling ethnic Albanian party DUI which wants a joint candidate with its coalition...

Macedonia 04.01.19 | 12:28

VMRO-DPMNE begins process to choose its presidential candidate

VMRO-DPMNE began the process to choose its candidate at the upcoming presidential elections. The party will hold a convention at which the 550 delegates of the Central Committee will elect from a list of prospective candidates. – The citizens are motivated and anxious to defeat the members of the...

Macedonia 26.12.18 | 12:47

Zaev again denies planning to run for President

Prime Minister Zoran Zaev again denied that he plans to run for President in the coming elections in April, even after a TV station close to him pushed a poll showing him in the lead ahead of other potential SDSM party candidates. – I will not run and I end this debate, said Zaev during a TV appearance....