VLEN’s Orhan Murtezani said on Wednesday that the driver of DUI’s Sadulla Duraki, Aleksan Rahmani, had been caught ballot-box stuffing in Polling Station 1112/1 Lipkovo. Caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski, however, said such an incident hadn’t been formally reported as of the end of the vote. VLEN also alleged that the head of the Tetovo Internal Affairs Sector, Shefik Bajrami, ...

After the end of the vote on Wednesday, the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office’s Commission tasked with monitoring potential election-related crimes said it hadn’t received any report about an election-related crime at the address izbori@jorm.mk. “According to the information received from public prosecutor’s offices throughout the whole country, the first round of the presidential election was peaceful and without major violations ...

Around two hours after the interview its President, Aleksandar Dastevski, had with Sitel, the State Election Commission presented more information about the vote that day. At 31 polling stations abroad, 2,569 diaspora members voted. “Six polling stations where the vote will last until 7 pm according to the time zone where the vote is being organised are still open. As ...

The State Election Commission (SEC) is fully ready for the first round of the presidential election on 24 April, the body’s head, Aleksandar Dastevski, said on Tuesday. At the session, new observers for the double elections were accredited. The total number of observers rose to 1,601, that is, 915 domestic and 544 foreign ones, as well as 84 translators and ...

On Monday, the Administrative Court ruled in favour of the State Commission for Prevention Commission (SCPC) in the case concerning the Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors. As the Court explained, the SCPC’s decision ordering the Academy to stop the process for candidate selection and training is legally founded. The SCPC, it was also explained, applied the guidelines presented in ...

On Tuesday, caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski attended a meeting on the elections, where the additional Deputy Minister, Mitko Bojmacaliev, the heads of the Agency for National Security and Public Security Bureau, Chief Public Prosecutor Kocevski, and representatives of prosecutor’s offices throughout the country participated as well. At the meeting, Toskovski expressed gratitude for the successful cooperation so far from ...

On Stefan Lazarov’s podcast on Monday, the former owner of the now defunct 1 TV station, Bojan Jovanovski (also known as Boki 13), whose appeal in the International Alliance case was accepted at the start of the month, said that the ex-head of the Basic Public Prosecutor’s Office for Prosecution of Organised Crime and Corruption, former Prosecutor Vilma Ruskovska, who ...

In Monday’s interview with TV21, DUI leader Ali Ahmeti confirmed that there was a deal signed between his party with the wing of Alliance for Albanians headed by Arben Taravari, BESA, DPA, and Alternative. According to the document, there will be “no partnership with political parties that are against the constitutional changes and against North Macedonia’s Euro-Atlantic path”.

The campaign for the parliamentary elections has continued. In Sveti Nikole, SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski described the elections as key to the future. “These elections are a vote in favour or against our European future,” he said. Regarding DUI’s rally the previous day, in Skopje, Kovacevski stated that North Macedonia was a country also of the ethnic Albanian community. “Nobody ...

On the last day of the campaign for the first round of the presidential election, SDSM-endorsed Stevo Pendarovski visited Demir Hisar, Resen, and Bitola. He once again urged citizens to show, as he said, that they know what the right option is. “Together with the SDSM-led coalition’s MP candidates, we’re fighting for a better life for all, for youth to ...