Today, VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski said a compromise regarding the Law on the Public Prosecutor’s Office required concessions from SDSM. “I don’t believe there is sincere will by SDSM for this, especially not now, a few months before the parliamentary elections,” Mickoski told the media. Asked about the party’s position on the changes to the […]
North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev says the Government and the ruling SDSM party are prepared for changes in the Electoral Code, be it the option of a single election district or open lists. Both models cannot be combined, whereas the decision is to be adopted by consensus. “The influence of small political parties is […]
Eight non-parliamentary parties – Glas za Makedonija, Edinstvena Makedonija, Levica, MAAK, Podem, the Labor-‐Agricultural Party, TMRO and FRODEM each make six demands regarding the Electoral Code and the conditions for “fair and democratic” elections. They demand a single-constituency model with no lower threshold and open lists. The D’Hondt model can be replaced by the Sainte-Laguë […]
It is quite certain that 2020 will be a year of elections, but these days the uncertainty again increases whether the elections for the “jubilee” tenth parliamentary composition will be the first regular elections in more than a decade, or they will be early and held several months earlier. Unlike before, when holding early elections […]
The victory of New Democracy party in yesterday’s parliamentary elections held in Greece was the focus of political debate in North Macedonia. What will the country’s new PM, Mitsotakis, do about the Prespa Agreement signed between Tsipras and Zaev, a deal which put an end to a long lasting dispute between Athens and Skopje? Former […]
After serving three terms as mayor, Edmond Temelko was defeated in local elections in Pustec, Albania. The new mayor of Albanian municipality of Pustec, which is mainly populated by ethnic Macedonians is Pali Kolefski. In the controversial elections, Kolefski was the candidate of the Socialist Party of Prime Minister Edi Rama. Kolefski’s victory, a longtime […]
Polling stations have opened in Albania as voters elect their municipal representatives. These elections are held at a time when the opposition has boycotted them, while the president of the country has issued a decree revoking the elections and setting a new date for them. However, the government has insisted that these elections be held […]
With a clear victory, the 49-year-old Ekrem Imamoglu is the winner of the repeat municipal elections in Istanbul. The opposition candidate won with a difference of about 773,000 votes against Binali Yildirim, who had the support of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Nationalist Action Party (MHP). “These elections were not won […]
The stakes are high today, with elections being held for the mayor of Istanbul, but all political analysts agree that the outcome of the elections will also have a major influence on political developments in the country. The city of 18 million inhabitants with the 10 million eligible voters always determines the developments and it […]
By the end of this week, Prime Minister of North Macedonia, Zoran Zaev will decide whether to reshuffle the governing cabinet or announce early elections. This will all depend on the meeting that PM Zoran Zaev will hold with German chancellor Angela Merkel where he will be informed on the position of the German government […]
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed his intention to call an early general election, after the end of the second round of Greek local elections next Sunday. Ruling SYRIZA suffered humiliating defeats in all three election battles on Sunday, European, regional and municipal. With over 30 percent of votes counted in the early hours of […]
The election results on Sunday may open the door for national elections, as the Greek prime minister said in his last interview before the crucial battle, this morning on public television. “On Sunday we do not vote for a government, but it is not an unimportant vote,” said Alexis Tsipras, pointing out that in these […]
Partial local elections were held in North of Kosovo on Sunday, namely in North Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zvecan and Zubin Potok. Turnout in these elections was 42%, while Democracy in Action, which is a coalition of non-government organizations, has observed the voting process. According to this coalition, with 85% of ballots counted at midnight, it looks […]
The political crisis in Austria is neither accidental nor unique. Nor was it surprising. It was the revelation and possibly the confirmation of how the far-right in Europe is being bolstered by known/unknown “centers” that want to destabilize the European Union and make it backtrack. Of course, merely deciding to boost the far-right is not […]
In an interview with Alpha TV on Monday evening, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras predicted that the upcoming European elections will be closer to call than recent opinion polls suggest. The Greek premier added that SYRIZA will win the general elections that will follow in October. Tsipras launched yet another attack against main opposition party leader […]
About 380,000 votes, as Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova won in the presidential elections, were rated as an excellent result in the VMRO-DPMNE, but they are insufficient to win the presidential race for the Vodno villa, much less for the government building on Ilinden Street. Riding the wave of dissatisfaction with the name agreement and the […]
Chairman of Self Determination Party in Kosovo, Albin Kurti, says that the country needs to hold fresh elections. In a meeting with party supporters, Kurti said that Kosovo is being governed by a coalition “which is plundering Kosovo”. “We need fresh elections, because the country is in need of a new government that can put […]
Serbia’s President has announced that he will make a decision on whether or not to conduct snap elections after his meetings with “world leaders”. At the meeting with high ranking members of his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) on Tuesday, Vucic said that at the conference in Berlin “it would be demanded that Serbia recognizes the […]
The first possible date for early general elections could be in June, said Nebojsa Stefanovic, high official of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). However, Stefanovic, who is also interior minister, did not exclude early voting in 2020, as another possibility. “It is hard to say when the elections would take place… because that depends […]
The Parliament is likely to re-send the laws by the end of this week to President Gjorge Ivanov, which he returned to Parliament when he decided not to sign them due to the use of the country’s new name. If Ivanov leaves the laws in the drawer even after they are re-voted at the assembly […]
