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News 21.10.21 | 12:30

Levica candidate Petar Georgievski calls on his supporters not to vote for Mayor Silegov

In an interview with Republika, Petar Georgievski – Kamikaze, the Levica candidate for Mayor of Skopje, called on urged his voters not to support incumbent Mayor Petre Silegov in the second round. The bass player for the Memorija rock band which was popular in the 1980ies and 1990ies, won 21,000...
Macedonia 19.10.21 | 14:53

After adding new floors to his house without a permit, Skopje Mayor Silegov also installed an elevator

A new feature in the large mansion that Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov is building is an elevator linking his garage to the four stories of the building, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski. Stoilkovski asked Silegov, who faces a very difficult re-election fight on October 31st, to explain how he...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 10:07

Skopje Council results and the removal of smaller candidates from the race favor Danela Arsovska as she goes into the second round against Mayor Silegov

After a night of major defeats across the country, SDSM touted the mayoral race in Skopje as one glimmer of hope for the party, where they could turn things around in the second round. SDSM candidate and incumbent Mayor Petre Silegov has 35 percent of the votes and trails with 3.5 percent behind the...
Macedonia 18.10.21 | 00:53

Skopje mayoral race: Arsovska leads Silegov with 15 percent of the votes counted

With 15 percent of the votes in Skopje counted, Danela Arsovska has a lead of about 1,000 votes ahead of SDSM’s Petre Silegov in the important mayoral race that will likely of the vote against 35 for Silegov. Of the protest candidates, Petar Georgievski – Kamikaza ranked third, with about...
Macedonia 17.10.21 | 22:33

Silegov and Danela Arsovska tied in the race for Skopje, will go to a run-off

The biggest race of the evening – the one for Mayor of Skopje – will likely be resolved in the second round two weeks later between the SDSM incumbent Petre Silegov and the independent candidate Danela Arsovska, who is supported by VMRO-DPMNE. Initial results show that the two are evenly...
Macedonia 17.10.21 | 20:01

Silegov expects to win in the first round

The SDSM mayoral candidate in Skopje Petre Silegov said that he expects to win in the first round of the elections. The turnout is what we expected and my expectations are that we will win in the first round. The citizens of Skopje had an opportunity to recognize who are the people who are driving this...
Macedonia 15.10.21 | 23:32

Skopje Mayor Silegov walked out of the last debate

SDSM mayoral candidate in Skopje Petre Silegov again left the debate with his challengers early – after storming out from the previous debate as soon as it finished, this time Silegov didn’t even wait until the cameras stopped rolling. The candidates were debating on the Macedonian Television,...
Macedonia 13.10.21 | 23:41

Tortevski: Mayor Silegov cut a ribbon for a traffic light button

Skopje mayoral candidate Aleksandar Tortevski used the Telma TV mayoral debate this evening to mock the incumbent Petre Silegov for one of his best known “projects” – when Silegov inaugurated an electronic button at a pedestrian crossing. Mayor Silegov did an opening ceremony for a...
Macedonia 13.10.21 | 22:34

Skopje Mayor Silegov raked over the coals by Arsovska and other challenges over his unkept promises

The Telma TV debate with the mayoral candidates in Skopje that aired this evening did not end well for the incumbent Petre Silegov, with all the other candidates pointing to the numerous promises he made in 2017 but never got around to implementing. At one point, Silegov got into an argument with his...
Macedonia 13.10.21 | 17:01

Silegov again promises to appoint an ethnic Albanian as Deputy Mayor of Skopje

SDSM mayoral candidate Petre Silegov announced that he will again nominate an ethnic Albanian as Deputy Mayor of Skopje, if he wins re-election on Sunday. In his first term, Silegov appointed businessman Enver Maliqi as his deputy. Maliqi died in late 2020 from coronavirus infection. Silegov re-election...
Macedonia 03.10.21 | 22:37

“Silegov opens Skopje to Zaev’s business interests”

VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski accused the Mayor of Skopje Petre Silegov of awarding public contracts to companies owned by the ruling Zaev family. Mickoski said that it is well known that trucks from Zaev’s home base of Strumica are being used on reconstruction contracts in Skopje. This...
Macedonia 03.10.21 | 22:20

Mickoski: Silegov uses Skopje 2014 for North Korean style billboards

Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov began to appreciate the “baroque” style of the Skopje 2014 project, now that he is using its building to place his North Korean style billboards, observer VMRO leader Hristijan Mickoski during the rally in Karpos this evening. Silegov placed a huge billboard with...
Macedonia 03.10.21 | 17:00

Mayor Silegov uses a building from the Skopje 2014 project for a North Korean style election billboard

Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov placed a huge billboard with his likeness on a multilevel parking garage in the capital. This is not only abuse of public resources for crass pre-election campaigning, but also a shameless move on his part, given that the garage was built as part of the Skopje 2014 urban renewal...
Macedonia 02.10.21 | 22:56

Arsovska calls out Mayor Silegov for the scout camp sexual abuse scandal

Mayoral candidate Danela Arsovska called out her opponent Petre Silegov from SDSM for funding a scout group whose instructors perpetrated forced underage children to participate in sexually explicit “games”. Her comments come as Silegov defended the concept of having the city fund sexual...
Macedonia 02.10.21 | 16:05

After the abuse suffered by underage scouts, Mayor Silegov still insists that the city has the right to conduct sexual education programs

Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov was grilled today for approving funding for a scout group that organized a sexual education camp for underage participants. During the “camp”, the children were instructed to strip naked, comment on each other genitals, paint their body parts and simulate various...
Macedonia 02.10.21 | 10:55

VMRO-DPMNE calls on state prosecutors to investigate Mayor Silegov’s rigged contract

Public prosecutors have remained silent in face of clear evidence that the Mayor of Skopje Petre Silegov was rigging procurement contracts. The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party showed that a contract worth 300,000 EUR for the reconstruction of water pipes was awarded retroactively – after the chosen...
Macedonia 24.09.21 | 15:30

VMRO-DPMNE condemns the use of children in Mayor Silegov’s pre-election campaign

VMRO-DPMNE condemned the use of underage children in the latest campaign materials by Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov. Silegov got his SDSM party to place ads promoting several reconstructed paths in the main Skopje park, and had children to pose in the pictures. Also concerning is the use of an emblem with...
Macedonia 21.09.21 | 13:46

Poll shows Danela Arsovska ahead of Petre Silegov in the key mayoral race in Skopje

The latest poll by the Organization for civic activism shows the independent candidate Danela Arsovska in the lead ahead of the incumbent Mayor of Skopje Petre Silegov. According to the poll, Arsovska would win 19.3 percent of the vote, against Silegov’s 17.4 percent. Arsovska’s nomination...
Macedonia 21.09.21 | 10:10

VMRO-DPMNE will propose criminal charges against Skopje Mayor Silegov for rigging of procurement contracts

VMRO-DPMNE announced it will propose that criminal charges are filed against Skopje Mayor Petre Silegov and the head of the Vodovod water utility company Dusan Veskovski, for rigging of procurement contracts. For several days, the opposition party has been revealing details of a contract worth 300,000...
Macedonia 20.09.21 | 13:38

VMRO-DPMNE presents additional evidence that Mayor Silegov rigged a public contract

VMRO-DPMNE revealed additional evidence today indicating that a contract worth hundreds of thousands of euros was rigged. The contract for reconstruction of water lines in Skopje was awarded by Mayor Petre Silegov and the water utility company manager Dusko Veskovski, to the KBK and Koding 2 companies...
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