Macedonian Presidential Elections - 2019

[Carlin]

Turkish, Bosniak, Vlach (Партијата на Власите во Македонија) parties come out in support of Siljanovska

URL:

https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/turkish-bosniak-vlach-parties-come-out-in-support-of-siljanovska/

Several ethnic minority parties today called on their supporters to vote for Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova for President on Sunday.

A vote for Stevo Pendarovski is a vote for Zoran Zaev and all the crimes and corruption associated with him, along with his erosion of the state and violation of the dignity of all its citizens. By voting for professor Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, we support the rule of law and the Constitution, said Mite Kostov Papuli, head of the Vlach Party of Macedonia.

A similar voice of support for Siljanovska was given by Erdogan Sarac, leader of the Party of Turkish National Dignity in Macedonia. “If we want a state based on the rule of law, we must all vote for Gordana Siljanovska Davkova”, Sarac said.

The Democratic Bosniak Party condemns the SDSM led Government for lying over the date to begin EU accession talks, its corruption and nepotism and failures to initiate reforms in the education and healthcare systems.

The SDSM led Government failed to initiate a single reform, didn’t build a meter of new roads, didn’t bring a single new foreign investment and spurred emigration out of our country. It created a lawless state that can’t reform itself and weak economy, the Democratic Bosniak Party says in its press release.


The other Vlach party (Демократскиот сојуз на Власите од Македонија) came out in support of Pendarovski:

https://24info.mk/%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5-%D1%81%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B0-%D0%B7%D0%B0-%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2/

[Soldier of Macedon]

Turkish, Bosniak, Vlach (Партијата на Власите во Македонија) parties come out in support of Siljanovska

URL:

https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/turkish-bosniak-vlach-parties-come-out-in-support-of-siljanovska/

Several ethnic minority parties today called on their supporters to vote for Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova for President on Sunday.

Given that most of the politicians representing these minorities voted in favour of changing the national identity of the Macedonian state, I find their support for the “law and constitution” as genuine as that of the traitors amongst our own ranks.

[Carlin]

30,15 ОТСТО ИЗЛЕЗНОСТ ДО 15 ЧАСОТ, НАЈМНОГУ ВО КРИВА ПАЛАНКА – 52,61 ОТСТО, НАЈМАЛКУ ВО ЖЕЛИНО – 9,03 ОТСТО

URL:

https://sdk.mk/index.php/naslovna/30-34-otsto-izleznost-do-15-chasot-najmnogu-vo-makedonski-brod-49-45-otsto-najmalku-vo-zhelino-9-03-otsto/

До 15 часот на гласање во вториот круг од претседателските избори излегле 30,15 отсто од избирачите, соопшти Државната изборна комисија. Од обработени 99,39 отсто од 3.512 избирачки места, тоа се 541.885 гласачи од вкупно 1.808.131 граѓани со право на глас.

За да биде избран претседател во вториот круг, потребно е да гласаат 40 отсто од избирачите, односно 723252 гласачи. Во првиот круг, излезноста до 15 часот беше 28,2 отсто, или 507.129 гласачи. Избирачките места се отворени до 19 часот.

„Гласањето тече мирно, непрекинато и без неправилности“, велат од ДИК.

Најголема излезност по општини има во Македонски Брод – 49,45%, Крива Паланка – 52,61%, Демир Капија – 49,17% и Демир Хисар – 48,09%., а најмала во во Желино – 9,03%, Боговиње – 10,49% и Центар Жупа 11,96%.

Во Ново Село и Охрид денеска се одржува и вториот круг од изборите за градоначалник.

[Gocka]

The turn out in Macedonian majority districts vs Albanian majority districts is almost 2:1 on a percentage basis. Just look at ohrid and struga, the are right next to each other only difference is one has a lot more Albanians than the other. Interesting.

[Rogi]

Pendarovski has won with the most votes overall, with a margin of about 60k votes.

While Siljanovska got more votes in most/all dominantly Macedonian electorates, it wasn't by a sufficient enough margin to counter the very one-sided Albanian vote for Pendarovski.

Interestingly, Pendarovski got 20k more votes than he did in 2014 when he lost, however Siljanovska has 200k votes less than Ivanov had in 2014 - of course, the coalition structure among the parties supporting the candidates is radically different.

Severna is now cemented, as is the language law. What a hopeless, purposeless place.

[Niko777]

Live results here: https://rezultati.sec.mk/mk-MK/1/r

[Carlin]

Pendarovski declares victory, says it guarantees EU will allow Macedonia to open accession talks

URL:

https://english.republika.mk/news/macedonia/pendarovski-declares-victory-says-it-guarantees-eu-will-allow-macedonia-to-open-accession-talks/

Stevo Pendarovski declared victory in the presidential elections, as the official count went over 90 percent and he maintained a lead of about 60.000 votes against Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova.

My people, I thank you. I thank you Macedonians, Albanians, Roma, Turks, Bosniaks, Vlachs and the others, who decided that we should continue forward in crystal clear elections. This is a dignified win for our wise people, regardless of its ethnic or political background, we united go forward, said Pendarovski.

The SDSM – DUI candidate made a point to say a few words in Albanian, a bow to the fact that, while he clearly lost the ethnic Macedonian vote, near unanimous voting by those ethnic Albanians that turned out in his favor delivered him the winning margin. Pendarovski echoed comments from Zoran Zaev and Ali Ahmeti, and said that his win means that the European Union will now reciprocate and give Macedonia a date to open accession talks.

The outcome guarantees our path forward to the EU and NATO alliance. We emerged from the dark and the depths. We go forward together, Pendarovski said.











NATO Envoy Wins North Macedonia's Election After Name Change

By Slav Okov
May 5, 2019

URL:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-05/nato-envoy-wins-north-macedonia-president-vote-after-name-change

The man coordinating North Macedonia’s upcoming NATO membership won the country’s presidential election, defeating a candidate who opposed a name-change that opened the way to western integration.

Stevo Pendarovski got 52 percent in Sunday’s ballot, according to the Electoral Commission, with 99 percent of polling stations counted. Nationalist opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova had 45 percent.

The vote was a test for efforts to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union for the country, which is caught in a tug-of-war for influence between Russia and the West. Pendarovski, a former presidential policy adviser supported by Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, has pledged to push the nation of 2 million further toward EU entry after it received green light to join the military alliance in February.

"The result of this presidential election means a guaranteed path forward for all of us as people, as families, as a country in the communities of NATO and the European Union, where we belong," Pendarovski said after declaring victory.

Siljanovska Davkova also said she wanted to further integration, but she campaigned on opposing a name-change deal with neighboring Greece that was a key condition for the accession talks.

Zaev came to power in 2017 after ousting Nikola Gruevski, a former premier and head of the VMRO-DPMNE party who has since fled to Hungary to avoid a jail sentence for abuse of power. The premier leads a coalition with the Democratic Union for Integration, a party representing ethnic Albanians -- about a quarter of the population whose support was seen as crucial for Pendarovski’s win.

While the post is mostly ceremonial, the president grants government-forming mandates and can veto laws, powers that can either ease or obstruct the country’s efforts to build deeper ties with richer EU states.

Lawmakers in all NATO members are now in the process of ratifying the accession protocol for North Macedonia to follow its regional peers Montenegro, Albania and Croatia into the military club. Slovenia and Croatia are already in the EU, while Serbia, Albania and Montenegro have applied, with the first one expected to join sometime next decade.

[Soldier of Macedon]

Democracy at work, where if enough traitors and idiots band together they get the win. This is what happens when things that are cherished and valued aren’t set in stone. Not that it would’ve made much difference had the other person won. Macedonia was sold out long ago (and many times over) by its politicians and unworthy inhabitants.

[Rogi]

The final nail in the coffin for a dream of a Macedonia for the Macedonians.

Now the beginning of a soulless, quasi-cosmopolitan, corrupt state without a purpose or vision.

[Big Bad Sven]

A beh, "boijot" pitchka ti materna, beh! Its good for you beh!

"Mashallah" behs! We will get in the EU now, OPA beh!

[Rogi]

I wonder what plan the boycott movement has now.
A real boycott? Anarchy? Revolution? A grand plan?

Or let Zaev and Pendarovski rule as they please and wait 2 years for the parliamentary elections to boycott them while posting Facebook comments?

[Big Bad Sven]

The boycot movement was the dumbest "strategy" in history, strangely a lot of brain dead macedonians saw it as a victory.

So instead of learning that boycotting does not work and forming a plan, they did the same 'strategy'

The result is we have some brain washed fools thinking this result is the golden ticket to getting into the EU, or people leaving in mass numbers to switzerland, or people simply not caring and riding it out

Basically - the country is fucked

Its over 'beh'

[Tomche Makedonche]

Macedonia isn’t a place, it’s a people, and the people are global. Time for the Macedonian people to focus on representing themselves wherever they are in the world and stop wasting time supporting or trying to influence apathetic internationalists and foreign or failed states who have claimed or lay claim to represent the Macedonians.

Македонците се Македонија

Македонија е Македонците

[VMRO]

With regards to the boycott movement, i hardly believe there were 60,000 people who were part of this movement.

We cannot include people who don't give two hoots as being part of this movement.


A group of people on facebook sharing "Bojkotiram" memes does not seem to me to be a "movement".

[Phoenix]

With regards to the boycott movement, i hardly believe there were 60,000 people who were part of this movement.

We cannot include people who don't give two hoots as being part of this movement.


A group of people on facebook sharing "Bojkotiram" memes does not seem to me to be a "movement".

The prevailing movement in Macedonia has always been the apathy movement...roughly at the same time as the bowel movement