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Macedonia 04.10.21 | 10:48

Electronic census data will be used to register citizens who refused to participate in the in-person census

Ilmi Selami, deputy head of the State Statistics Bureau (DZS) estimates that only about a 1,000 people refused to participate in the census, and says that they will be added to the registry anyway – exempting some personal data such as their religion and ethnicity. The Levica party called for a...

Macedonia 09.02.21 | 13:59

Zaev’s planned census reaches first internal obstacles

The first public confrontation between the heads of the State Statistics Bureau (DZS), tasked with holding a census in April, was predictably along ethnic lines. The ethnic Macedonian, SDSM party appointed director of the DZS Apostol Simovski stated that emigrants can’t empower a representative...

Macedonia 08.02.21 | 10:18

Albanian emigrants can appoint a friend to state their national and religious affiliation, deputy census chief Selami insists

Ilmi Selami, the DUI party official who is co-chairman of the Statistics Bureau and has veto power over the coming census, said that Bureau chairman Apostol Simovski (appointed by the SDSM party) is wrong when he said that emigrants can’t report their ethnic and religious background. The ethnic...