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▪ ▪ MOST successful story in the Macedonian civil society

MOST Citizens Association in the past five years of its working is assessed as successful story of the Macedonian civil society.

This assessment was made by the editorial team of the edition "Successful stories of the Macedonian civil society II" which in the frames of the Macedonian civic platform was implemented by The first children's embassy in the world- Megasi. Besides MOST these two editions posses data on civil organizations which contributed towards the benefit of the citizens, environment, R Macedonia etc.

The Proposal of amendments and alterations of the Election Code is and outcome of the Project for Improving the Election process and Overcoming of the Irregularities. The project was implemented within the period May – December 2007 and it was implemented by the Citizen’s association MOST, Ministry of Justice and OSCE Spillover monitoring mission to Skopje.

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Citizen's Association MOST wishes all the best to all volunteers

Citizen's Association MOST published the report "5 years MOST"

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HOW MUCH WORK WAS DONE AND WHAT WAS DONE BY THE REPRESENTATIVES

Monitoring of the work of the Parliament of R Macedonia

Citizens Association MOST in the frames of the project MP's Performance published the second report of the Monitoring of the work of the representatives  and Parliament of R Macedonia within the period February - August 2007.

In the period 17 – 21 September 2007 on the statistical sample of 1118 respondents the Institute for
democracy “Societas Civilis” and Citizen’s association MOST has conducted public opinion poll for the
benefit of this report.

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THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CITIZENS, PARLIAMENTARIANS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT IS USEFUL

The communication between the citizens, parliamentarians and representatives of the local self government is useful, reckon 89,93% of the citizens who had participated in the meetings of the fourth phase of the project Mobile Parliament.

All or at least some of the information stressed on these meetings would be used in the further activities of more than 90% of the participants, who complete evaluation forms at the end of every meeting.

Great percent of the citizens 41,03% hope that the Parliamentarians and the representatives of the local self government will rich joint solution of the problem that was a topic of the discussion, 31,7% expect a debate in the Parliament on certain subject to be initiated. 24,57% of the respondents think that the Parliamentarians should submit alterations and amendments to laws on the bases of the recommendations passed at the meetings.

It is planned in the fourth phase of the Mobile Parliament to be organized 46 public meetings. 26 of it have been already organized in the period March 2006 – June 2007, and the rest of the meetings will take place no later than February 2008.  

▪ ▪ Traveling to Europe 03.09.2007
 

THEY HAVE JOINED EUROPE, BUT GOT BACK TO MACEDONIA

Representatives of the best students from Macedonia, after staying for one month in Europe, got back in Macedonia. Now, they are challenged to contribute towards awareness raising about the importance of the democratic values to be respected and nursed by every citizen of R Macedonia.  

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▪ ▪ Traveling to Europe 09.07.2007

THE STUDENTS SHALL TRAVEL TO EUROPE

The students who will be a part of the team that will travel around Europe for one month were granted visas today. In less then a week they will begin their journey, and shall meet countries and their democratic values, peoples and cultures. The students were chosen upon public competition, selected by their averages.

The realizer of the project, the Citizen’s association MOST, with the assistance of the donors and sponsors has provided Inter Rail tickets for unlimited train transportation, free of charge Schengen visas, insurance, students cards and payment cards with part of the required funds.

▪ ▪ Project on improving the election process and overcoming the election irregularities 07.07.2007

AMENEDMENTS OF THE ELECTION CODE
ARE REQUIRED
The improvement of the election rules leads towards improved elections

The Citizens association MOST in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and the OSCE Spillover Monitoring Mission to Skopje shall work on improvement of the election process and overcoming of the election irregularities in accordance with the Venice commission and the ODIHR report on the Parliamentary elections 2006.

▪ ▪ Project on improving the election process and overcoming the election irregularities 29.06.2007

The Citizen’s association MOST, OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the Ministry of Justice of R Macedonia have signed an agreement on implementation of the project on improving the election process and overcoming the election irregularities.

The working groups would engage interpreters selected on the bases of open competition which will finish on Tuesday 03.07.2007. All interested persons can learn about the conditions of the engagement on the following links:
 

Interested candidates can send their CVs to most@most.org.mk.
 

▪ ▪ Travelling to Europe 27.06.2007

40 STUDENTS WILL TAKE THE ROAD

AROUND EUROPE
The submission of the applications is finished

The students who want to be part of the team that will travel around Europe next month, have submitted their applications. The competition was closed on 26 June, and the journey will start on 16 July. All information and the final list of the students who would travel around Europe will be available on the web page of the project www.patvoevropa.org.mk.
 

▪ ▪ Project on improving the election process and overcoming the election irregularities 18.06.2007

The Citizen’s association MOST, OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje and the Ministry of Justice of R Macedonia have signed an agreement on implementation of the project on improving the election process and overcoming the election irregularities.

The working groups would engage experts selected on the bases of open competition which will finish on Monday 25.06.2007. All interested persons can learn about the conditions of the engagement on the following links:
 

▪ ▪ Travel to Europe 06.06.2007

Travel to Europe -
Open competition for student

On today’s press conference, the Citizen’s association MOST promoted the project “Travel to Europe”, by which 40 students from Macedonia, through traveling and visits would be provided with chance directly to meet the democratic values, habits and cultures of other countries, and to promote and bring it near in Macedonia.  

Detailed information on the project and the application form are available on www.patvoevropa.org.mk

▪ ▪ MP's performance 27.02.2007

HOW MUCH WORK WAS DONE BY THE MPs AND WHAT WAS DONE BY THIS
COMPOSITION OF THE PARLIAMENT

Monitoring of the work of the
Parliament of R Macedonia

The monitoring of the performance of the Representatives and Parliament of R Macedonia which was conducted by the Citizen’s association MOST in the period between August 2006 and January 2007 displays the following:

- 12 Representatives or 10% of the total number of the representatives attended all 90 sessions of the Parliament of R Macedonia (Violeta Taseva, Goce Markoski, Svetlana Jakimovska, Jagotka Ivanovska, Nada Stancevska, Nadica Tanceva – Tuleva, Vasko Sutarov, Katerina Dimeska, Oliver Derkoski, Sonja Gelova – Stojanova, Cvetko Grozdanov and Ruza Gjorgjeska) ....

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Citizens Association MOST has moved  into new offices. The new address of the central office is

Strezovo No.7
1000 Skopje
R Macedonia

(near the German Embassy)

The telephone numbers are:
+389 2 30 99 384
+389 2 30 99 385

fax. +389 2 30 86 430

▪ ▪ General assessment Local By Elections Saraj 2007
 

On the bases of the processed reports from the observers, the Citizen’s association MOST assesses that the Local By elections for mayor and members of Council of the municipality of Saraj were conducted in peaceful environment, without registered incidents.

Unlike the previous election processes a significant participation of women’s voters on the Election Day was noticed and the presence of the police before the polling stations and on the entire territory of the municipality was visible. It was evident that the work of the members of the election boards was improved.

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▪ ▪ Press conference 19 o'clock Local By Elections Saraj 2007
 

According to the reports gained before closing of the polling stations, the voting was conducted in peaceful environment, without any serious incidents.

Unlike previous election processes, it was noticed a significant participation of women in this election process.

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▪ ▪ Press conference 12 o'clock Local By Elections Saraj 2007
 

The Local By elections in Saraj municipality are being monitored by 82 accredited observers of the Citizen’s association MOST. They are deployed at all polling stations and will be monitoring the elections all day long. The logistic support is provided by mobile teams. The work of the SEC and MEC will be monitored as well.

The reports from the observers indicate that all polling stations were opened on time and the MOST observers were registered without any problems.

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▪ ▪ Local By Elections Saraj 2007
 

The Local By elections in the municipality of Saraj, scheduled for 14.01.2007 will be monitored by 82 accredited observers of the Citizen’s association MOST. They will be deployed as static teams at all polling stations on the Election Day, and the logistic support will be provided by the mobile teams. The work of the SEC and MEC will be monitored all day long as well as the collecting and tabulation of the results.

In these elections, like the previous ones, MOST will be recognized by the yellow T shirts worn by the observers, the SEC accreditations and the authorization issued by MOST which are compulsory for every observer to have it.

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▪ ▪ The work of the parliamentarians and the Parliament shall be monitored

The citizens will have the opportunity to be informed on the work of the elected parliamentarians. The brochure named “MP’s performance” twice a year, free of charge will be distributed to the citizens in order to be acquainted with the quantitative parameters of the work of the elected representatives and Parliament of R Macedonia. These are the expected results of the activities of this project, which will be conducted by the Citizen’s association MOST in cooperation with the Parliament of R Macedonia.

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▪ ▪ Study trip in R. Poland
 

Representatives of the C.A. MOST in the period between the 7^th and 14^th November 2006, participated a study trip to Krakow on invitation of the Tischner European University (TEU).
TEU, together with Center for Research and Policy Making (Macedonia) and Foundation Global- Kontakt (Bosnia and Herzegovina) has started the Common Voice Project.
The Common Voice Project focuses on evolution of electoral systems and its practical implications and implementation, management of the electoral process, and underline challenges ahead of the electoral practitioners and decision makers.
The Common Voice Project cover visits, exchange of experiences and debates of the electoral experts, managers and commissioners from Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia. The exchange of ideas and information among the participants in similar projects has been proved as an invaluable key to success and improvement of the quality of electoral process in other countries.
Participants in the project, also monitored Municipal Elections 2006 in Poland.

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▪ ▪ Mobile parliament 02.11.2006
 

Citizens want to have dialogue with their members of parliament.

88,46% of the citizens that participated in the third phase of the project Mobile Parliament reckon that the discussions of the members of parliament and local authorities with the citizens are useful.  

More than 80% think that the topics regarding local problems and their resolving through amending laws is an excellent choice and opportunity for citizens’ involving in the decision making processes.

These are the data from the evaluation of the third phase of the project Mobile Parliament - public meetings of the parliamentarians and representatives of the local self government with citizens, which was conducted by the Citizen’s Association MOST. The goal of the activities is to provide a constant dialogue between the citizens and their representatives and to initiate resolving of certain problems.

In 2005/2006, in the frames of this project, 20 public meetings were organized in all election units, and 38 members of parliament attended the meetings, as well as 690 citizens and representatives of the local self government and competent ministries.

It is planned to organize 46 public meetings in the fourth phase of the Mobile Parliament.

This project is being implemented by the Office for contact between the NGOs and Parliament of R Macedonia, and it is supported by the Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands and ITZ through USAID funds.
         

▪ ▪ OSCE Human dimension implementation meeting 2006

From 2 October to 13 October, in Warsaw, a conference on human rights is being conducted at the highest level. This is a unique regular annual conference, where representatives of NGOs debate with the representatives of 56 countries members of OSCE on the same table.
This year, for the third time, MOST participated in the conference, as well as in the election experts meeting, which on the margins of the conference took place on 8 October.
The goal of this event is the representatives of the civil sector to remind their governments about their duties and to lobby for achieving higher standards regarding human rights.
The conclusions and the recommendations from this conference shall be presented on OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in December 2006.                        
 

▪ ▪ Final report Parliamentary elections 2006

Citizen's association MOST has published the final report on the Parliamentary elections 2006. 

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▪ ▪ Re-run of the parliamentary elections 19.07.2006

The re-run of the Parliamentary elections was monitored by 29 static observers and mobile teams of the Citizen's Association MOST.

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▪ ▪ MOST will monitor the re-run of the parliamentary elections 18.07.2006

The re-run of the Parliamentary elections 2006 that will take place on the 19 July at 29 polling stations in the Election Units 1, 5 and 6 will be monitored by 29 static observers of the Citizen’s association MOST. Additionally, mobile teams will be deployed as logistic support of the static observers.

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▪ ▪ Preliminary press release 07.07.2006

On the basis of the reports received by the monitors, deployed on 70% of the polling units across the Republic of Macedonia, as well as by the regional coordinators, the Citizen’s Association MOST, evaluated the day of the Parliamentary elections 2006 as stable but with similar incidents that were typical for the previous elections cycles, such as filling the boxes which this time is with lower intensity in comparison, at the expense of proxy and group voting whose number increased. Problems regarding the conducting of the counting of votes were also registered.

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▪ ▪ Press conference 14.30 h

According to some confirmed information, sent by the monitors,till 14 o'clock, the following irregularities have been reported...

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▪ ▪ Press conference 11 h

The Citizen’s Association MOST, monitors the Parliamentary elections 2006 with 3500 accredited monitors, deployed on 70% of the polling units. All of the deployed monitors have been accepted on the election polling units and monitor the voting process. According to some confirmed information, sent by the monitors some irregularities on polling stations have been noticed.

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}}} links

▪ ▪ Official Election's page

 ▪ ▪ Parliament of Republic of Macedonia

▪ ▪ Government of Republic of Macedonia

▪ ▪ State Election Commission

▪ ▪ State Statistical Office

▪ ▪ President of Republic of Macedonia

▪ ▪ State Audit Office