FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: TURNOUT HEAVY IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SINCE MACEDONIA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

Record ID: 646353

  • Title: FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA: TURNOUT HEAVY IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SINCE MACEDONIA GAINED INDEPENDENCE FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
  • Date: 16th October 1994
  • Summary: SKOPJE AND TETOVO, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (OCTOBER 16, 1994) SKOPJE 1. TOP VIEW OF SKOPJE 0.04 2. GVS/CU INTERIOR OF POLLING STATION, PEOPLE REGISTERING AND VOTING (4 SHOTS) 0.27 3. GV LJUBISA GEORGIJEVSKI, IMRO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE VOTING 0.35 4. GV REGISTAR CHECKING REGISTER 0.40 5. GV PETAR GOSEV, DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER VOTING 0.46 6. GVS PRESIDENT OF FORMER YUSGOLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, KIRO GLIGOROV, VOTING (2 SHOTS) 0.54 TETOVO 7. GV STREET SCENE IN TOWN WHICH HAS MAJORITY OF ALBANIAN RESIDENTS 0.57 8. GV EXTERIOR POLLING STATION, ZOOM IN CU SIGN 1.04 9. GVS INTERIOR POLLING STATION, PEOPLE QUEUING AND VOTING (2 SHOTS) 1.14 10. GVS ALBANIAN VOTERS PROTESTING THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED ON VOTING LIST AT POLLING STATION (2 SHOTS) 1.32 11. GV GROUP OF ELDERLY MEN SITTING ON BENCHES UNDER TREES 1.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
  • Embargoed: 31st October 1994 12:00
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  • Location: SKOPJE AND TETOVO, FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVADYP9NNY9Q5UHKNAJIYH7TDWGJ
  • Story Text: Macedonians voted on Sunday (October 16) in the first presidential and parliamentary election polls since the republic gained independence from former Yugoslavia in 1991.

    Election commission officials said morning turnout was heavy throughout the republic, which has managed to avoid the wars that have plagued the other republics seceding from former Yugoslavia.

    The opposition Democratic Party complained of major voting irregularities.

    In Tetovo, voters complained they had been left off the voting list. The state election commission was forced to intervene when the voting list for the village of Stajkovci near Skopje was missing.

    In a one-month election campaign candidates claimed that, if their opponents were elected, the state would slide into ethnic violence or confrontation with its neighbours.

    Land-locked Macedonia, the poorest of all ex-Yugoslavia's republics, is hard hit by United Nations (U.N.)-sanctions against rump Yugoslavia and a trade embargo imposed by Greece which disputes the republic's name.

    While President Kiro Gligorov's victory in the presidential race is fairly certain, the result of the parliamentary poll is far from clear.


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