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Parallel with the 2019 presidential election in Macedonia, early local election was organised in three Macedonian municipalities: Debar, Novo Selo and Ohrid. In Debar, the candidate of DUI Hekuran Duka won the majority of votes (4,106, 50.09 %) ahead of the AA candidate Arben Agolli (3,834, 46.77 %). In Ohrid, the candidate of SDSM Konstantin Georgieski who won 11,819 votes ...

3,150 local and 419 foreign observers have been deployed throughout the country to monitor the voting at polling stations, the counting of ballots and the summing up of results in the 2019 presidential election. Most of the local observers come from MOST, a local civic association founded in 2002, monitoring the elections with 1,940 observers. Foreign observers include the OSCE/ODIHR ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

Three days before the first round of the presidential elections, the candidates continued their activities. The candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, in Skopje, described the elections as a can’t-miss opportunity. “On 21 April and 5 May, citizens have a chance they mustn’t miss. That is a chance for us to stop a return towards the dark past. ...

On Thursday, Goran Momiroski, who heads the Election HQ of the candidate supported by the coalition led by VMRO-DPMNE, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, met with a group from the Public Prosecutor’s Office (PPO) in charge of monitoring the election process. He urged both the PPO and the Interior Ministry to investigate the case concerning the Izbori 2019 (Elections 2019) smartphone app, ...

New so-called bombs have appeared on the internet. On an anonymous profile under the pseudonym “Ilija Gromovnik” on the VK social network, four wire-tapped conversations have been posted. 24 TV contacted both the Interior Ministry and the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO), but the institutions were surprised by the situation. It’s interesting that these materials are shared by anonymous Facebook profiles ...

If the necessary threshold isn’t met in the elections, the possibility of constitutional changes isn’t excluded in the field of threshold to elect a President. “We have a recommendation from the Venice Commission that the threshold that exists in the Constitution is something that is not proper and must be removed,” she stated on Thursday. According to Deskoska, a constitutional ...

The key government-opposition differences over the Public Prosecutor’s Office Draft Law that needs to solve the future status of the Special Prosecutor’s Office (SPO) remain, according to Justice Minister Renata Deskoska. “Those are the differences primarily concerning the continuation of procedures initiated by the SPO, the use of evidence gathered in those court procedures and, ultimately, the end of the ...

Good driving conditions are reported throughout the country on predominantly dry roads. Certain roadways passing through valleys and canyons can be susceptible to light rockslides, such as Kocani – Makedonska Kamenica – Delcevo, Vinica – Berovo, Gostivar – Straza, Mavrovo – Debar – Struga, Demir Kapija – Udovo, Katlanovo – Veles, Krusevo – Demir Hisar, and Resen – Bukovo. Motorists ...

Four days before the first round of the presidential elections, the candidates continued their activities. The candidate supported by the SDSM-led coalition, Stevo Pendarovski, paid a visit to Kratovo, Probistip and Karbinci. As he said in Probistip, if somebody wants to vote for the candidate supported by the VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition, Gordana SIljanovska Davkova, that will mean a third mandate for ...