Overstaffed and ineffective administration while the reforms are being announced

Only 15% of the municipalities are securing the documents from other institutions The minister Damjan Manchevski announced reducing of administration workers. Some of them will be transferred to the private sector Professor Borche Davitkovski: We want to reduce the administration, and on the other hand for the people not to be fired   Goran Lefkov   Citizens are often forced to wander from institution to institution for an ordinary...

The municipalities do not reveal how they spend public money

Most transparent municipalities are: Shtip, Bitola, Kavadarci, Veles and Ohrid   Goran Lefkov     Most of the municipalities in Macedonia are not so interested to inform their citizens how they spend public money. The research of the Center for Change Management, within the framework of the project “Monitoring the principles of public administration in preserving the values ​​of good governance”, showed that the transparency index in all municipalities...

NINE OFFICIALS RICHER, ONLY TWO “POORER”

MP Meri Lazarova with double increased property, Sashko Atanasov with a new truck, Zaklina Peshevska with a new car Daniela Rangelova with a new debt of 228 Euros per month, Mila Carovska with two new agricultural lands, and Emil Dimitriev with a new apartment Asaf Ademi with a share of 2,250 Euros and a denar deposit in the amount of 4,552 Euros, while Muhamed Zekiri with no updates  ...

AROUND 300.000 CITIZEN ARE IGNORED BY INSTITUTIONS AND THE PEOPLE WITHOUT DISABILITIES

–More than 300.000 people in Macedonia are with disabilities or related to disabilities -Only 19 percent of the municipalities have full accessibility for people with disabilities, while 34 percent have no accessibility at all -People with disabilities have a strong message to institutions and the citizens: “Unequal accessibility equals offense!”     Author: Goran Lefkov   Elena Kochoska is a program manager at the NGO “Polio Plus”. A great...

MUNICIPALITIES SINK IN DEBTS, MAYORS REQUIRE FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION

The municipalities’ indebtedness results from their irrational performance and unrealistic planning of the budgets.   By Gjurgjica Bojchovska and Ljubica Ivanova   In the Republic of Macedonia many of the municipalities are sinking in debt and have blocked accounts. It is a huge problem for the municipalities because they are unable to successfully perform the legally entrusted competences and provide quality services to the citizens. About 20 municipalities have...

THE SIX RICHEST MINSTERS ARE WORTH 35 MILLION EUROS

Angjushev, Bekteshi, Lika, Dimitrov, Zaev and Asaf Ademi are the richest ministers and together are worth around 35 million euros Deskoska, Duraku, Edmond Ademi, Manchevski, Tevdovski and Nikolovski are the poorest ministers, owning all together only 500 thousand euros The Minister Ahmedovski has not declared his property at all, and some ministers have “forgotten” to declare their parents’ property SCOOP’s survey within the project “Politically Exposed Persons” shows that...