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Parties yet to Finalise MP Candidate Lists

Though the deadline to file MP candidate lists to the State Election Commission (SEC) expires on 2 April, SDSM is still not ruling out the possibility of a pre-election coalition with DUI. SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said on Wednesday talks with coalition partners were continuing. However, he didn’t clarify whether there were negotiations with DUI, too. SDSM will have list ...

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Personal Documents Issue: Latest Reactions

On Wednesday, caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski said citizens couldn’t enter Montenegro with passports containing the old constitutional name of the country. However, he added that foreign countries had more understanding for North Macedonia’s citizens than the SDSM-DUI government. According to information he’s received from ambassadors and citizens, though citizens cannot enter Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro with personal ...

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Parties Finalising MP Candidate Lists

Parties are making the final preparations for the MP candidate lists. SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said on Tuesday that through the municipal organisations, there were over 1,000 nominated candidates, while around 600 had officially filed MP candidacies. Talks are underway with coalition partners on allocation of places on the lists, he added. When it comes to VMRO-DPMNE, it’s certain that ...

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SDSM Supports Proposal for People with Old-Name Documents to Be Able to Vote

SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said on Tuesday that his party supported the proposal for citizens with personal documents containing the previous constitutional name of the country that hadn’t expired to be able to vote. As he pointed out, the proposal has been discussed since as early as the end of 2023. “We will support it and there have already been ...

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President Pendarovski in Interview with Sitel TV

In an interview with Sitel, President Stevo Pendarovski says that he expects support from all ethnic communities for a second term. As he points out, one cannot become the President if they don’t get broad citizen support. Regarding VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski’s comments that VMRO-DPMNE’s candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, will have a lead of over 100,000 votes in the first ...

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Presidential Race: SDSM Coalition Partners Express Support for Pendarovski

SDSM’s coalition parties have endorsed Stevo Pendarovski for a second presidential term. “At today’s working meeting of the most senior representatives of the parties from the SDSM-led coalition, support for Pendarovski was clearly expressed, with the joint assent being that he is a winning candidate with a clear European vision for the future of this country. The joint consent to ...

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Pendarovski and Davkova Officially Confirmed as Presidential Candidates

At the session of SDSM’s Congress on Sunday, Stevo Pendarovski was confirmed as the ruling party’s candidate for a second presidential term. 706 delegates voted in favour. SDSM leader Dimitar Kovacevski said Pendarovski had a clear vision about the country’s prosperity and its EU future. Pendarovski said the country needed a President with a clear European vision. He described VMRO-DPMNE’s ...

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Citizens without Valid ID or New Passport not to Be Able to Vote

Citizens that will not have a valid ID or a new passport will not be able to vote in the elections. Caretaker Interior Minister Pance Toskovski has informed about the issue. He was told by the Interior Ministry’s services that it was about 100,000 adults without an ID who have a passport containing the previous constitutional name. On Friday, Ombudsperson ...

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Presidential Race: Latest Developments

VMRO-DPMNE believes Stevo Pendarovski doesn’t have the credibility to be the President. On Thursday, Mile Lefkov, MP from the opposition party, asked whether Pendarovski had been forced to enter the race because nobody else from SDSM, not even ex-Interior Minister Spasovski, wanted to lose. “On 6 December, Pendarovski personally said he wasn’t planning to run for a second term. Media ...

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Laws to Limit Salaries of Officials Passed by Parliament

Parliament voted through on Thursday the changes to six laws filed by SDSM parliamentarians aiming to limit the salaries of officials. The previous day, the need to adopt the changes had been adopted in the shortened procedure. According to the changes, salaries of officials will not rise as a result of the average salary increase. The laws in question are: ...

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