Macedonian Presidential Elections 2014

[Risto the Great]

An Albanian NGO wants to use the Badinter Principle for the selection of Presidents now...

Why not?
They are almost within their power to do it if they argue this issue fits into the FA:

"For laws that directly affect culture, use of language, education, personal documentation, and use of symbols, the Assembly makes decisions by a majority vote of the Representatives attending, within which there must be a majority of the votes of the Representatives attending who claim to belong to the communities not in the majority in the population of Macedonia."

I would say the President affects culture directly.

[Vangelovski]

Why not?
They are almost within their power to do it if they argue this issue fits into the FA:

"For laws that directly affect culture, use of language, education, personal documentation, and use of symbols, the Assembly makes decisions by a majority vote of the Representatives attending, within which there must be a majority of the votes of the Representatives attending who claim to belong to the communities not in the majority in the population of Macedonia."

I would say the President affects culture directly.

There's a lot of ball manipulation going on there.

[Risto the Great]

There's a lot of ball manipulation going on there.

The nature of the FA in my opinion.

[George S.]

question how can one minority Albanian get constitutional gurantees as to rights,priveleges all they want is secession who is the idiot who allow that to exist .In effect eroding sovereignity. I heard that the rom govt can't send police even to police parts of tetetovo.SWE have no go zones.GThis erodes sovereignity.What would happen if the other minorities besides Albanian wantheir similar rights.Also where is the majority rule & respect off by the minorities all they want is to take Macedonia's land.Where is the enshinement in the constitution Macedonia for the Macedonians.(Macedonian citizens)What happens when Albanians don't want to be Macedonian citizens?

[Gocka]

This time around we will see a real push to get an albanian elected as president both from inside and outside Macedonia.

Lets see if Macedonians will cave. We have been talking about this moment for 10 years, finally the day has come when there is a real possibility for there to be an albanian president. They used to say we were paranoid for saying such things, I wonder what they think now?

What do you guys think the chances are of the albanians unilaterally trying to elect their own president and setting up their own parallel government?

[Risto the Great]

What do you guys think the chances are of the albanians unilaterally trying to elect their own president and setting up their own parallel government?

I would say about as much chance as Macedonians doing the same thing. Naturally it needs to be stated that Macedonians do not presently have their own president or government.

[Vangelovski]

What do you guys think the chances are of the albanians unilaterally trying to elect their own president and setting up their own parallel government?

Anyone could do it, I just don't think the Albanians in Macedonia are politically united enough to pull it off. They are too fractured in terms of DPA supporters on one side and DUI supporters on the other, with a few smaller parties on the periphery. That does not mean that DPA and DUI essentially have the same cause in mind in a global sense, its more of a struggle for power between two sets of elites. In addition to that, they do have very different economic ideas that further divides them.

The Albanians in Macedonia, while virtually united on their idea of Albanianism, are still divided in terms of party politics. They don't exactly have the equivalent of Rugova's Democratic League of Kosovo, which was virtually unchallenged in Kosovo during the 90's and led the Albanian state within a state. Without that kind of organisational unity, they would not be able to pull it off as only part of the Albanian community would participate in a shadow government, rendering it effectively useless.

Besides, why control only part of the Macedonian state when you can indirectly control the whole state and access much larger resources through the FA?

[DedoAleko]

Stevo Pendarovski candidate for president from sdsm

izvor: http://makfax.com.mk/#330280

[Niko777]

propaganda targeting the diaspora

[Risto the Great]

Ivanov was of no consequence whatsoever.
He couldn't possibly be a candidate worth considering.

[Vangelovski]

propaganda targeting the diaspora

Using the sonce and hoping we won't notice the ventilator above it. That basically sums DPMNE up - plastic patriotism. Smoke and mirrors to confuse the sheep.

[DedoAleko]

Vankovska and Angelov hardly to reach 10,000 signatures required to run for president

izvor: http://utrinski.mk/?ItemID=577613304...C820F2EC9ED657

[Niko777]

Vankovska and Angelov have failed to gather 10,000 signatures, they're out of the race for president