Party employment for dysfunctional municipalities

Municipality Rankovce is a leader by the number of employees in Macedonia. For 10 years this community has increased its staff by five times. In 2005 the municipality had 6 employees, while in 2014 their number rose to 31 people. Municipality Dolneni has had the same recruitment process for the past 10 years as Rankovce. But unlike Rankovce, this Pelagonija municipality has three times more inhabitants than Rankovce. Third place, according to the growth of the municipal administration holds the municipality of Tetovo. From 2005 to 2014 it increased the number of its employees by 4.5 times. In Tetovo half of the budget goes for administration’s salaries. According to the mayor of Rankovce, Momcilo Aleksovski, overstaffing impedes functioning. “The biggest issue is the Fire Department. We have 9 firefighters who receive their salary from the municipal budget. First salaries...

Babies die due to bureaucratic obstacles

Petar is a young, 30-year-old man from a town in Macedonia. We met him to tell us the agony he went through trying to ensure prompt transport for operation of his newborn in Bulgaria. He excitedly tells what mazes he went through in those 7 days after the birth of his second child, who immediately after his birth had heart defect detected and a breathing problem. Hospital costs per country for the period 2011 – 2015 No. Country 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 1 Austria 6,022,104.00 10,887,583.00 7,195,880.00 2,350,080.00 2,478,900.00 2 Czech Republic 606,699.00 982,545.00 474,199.00 3 Belgium 614,725.00 8,433,335.00 1,051,494.00 697,318.00 281,498.00 4 Bulgaria 38,105,800.00 32,292,241.00 13,921,683.00 7,976,014.00 2,097,890.00 5 Germany 19,974,148.00 5,831,159.00 77,469,544.00 60,479,939.00 1,757,686.00 6 Greece 4,125,546.00 970,274.00 15,447,685.00 13,567,539.00 7 Croatia 1,591,974.00 5,273,693.00 2,728,141.00 2,014,219.00 532,733.00 8 Israel 5,066,894.00 946,596.00 1,855,362.00 9 Russia 4,900,224.00 141,721.00...

COUNTRY OF RICH LEADERS

A modest house with little furniture, 1987 Volkswagen Beetle and other assets worth only 2 thousand dollars. This is the declaration of assets of the President of Uruguay, José Mujica, who is famous for being the world’s poorest president. In Macedonia it is difficult to find such a modest declaration of assets. Although the data entered is not complete, officials in Macedonia still have a lot to “boast” with. Full bank accounts, term deposits, land, stocks, houses and apartments appear as assets of the leaders of the main political parties in Macedonia: VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM, DUI and DPA.   Gruevski has no assets in his name, but lots of cards and deposits   Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski got in through the back door in Macedonian politics as Minister of Economy, a portfolio that almost had no budget and assets to...

New witnesses to abuses in “Lepeza” disclosed, Norwegian Embassy is checking

author: Stojanka Mitreska Soldier Ilija Todev from Veles who neither has a driving license, nor has ever taken the driving test in any driving school in the country, claims to have been on the list of soldiers who received a driving license through “Lepeza”. Contrary to the case of Todev, some time ago Inbox 7 published a story about a soldier – Zoran Karadakovski from Veles, also a former Scorpion, who claimed that he had attended classes organized by “Lepeza” to obtain a security guarding license, but that he was later forced to pay for the license himself. “Lepeza” is a program of the Ministry of Defense (MoD) to retrain military personnel, financially and professionally supported by the Kingdom of Norway. For eight years, with Norwegian assistance and support, since the time the defense sector was run by Laze...

Number of municipal employees has doubled for a decade

Overstaffing in municipalities. This is the initial conclusion of the research of the Center for Investigative Journalism SCOOP Macedonia. From a sample of 10% of the total number of municipalities in the country, for 10 years the number of employees has increased at least twice. Number of employees in a representative sample of municipalities in 2005 and 2014 Municipality Number of employees in the municipality in 2005 Number of employees in the municipality in 2014 Increase Berovo 23 34 11 Bogdanci 13 22 9 Chashka 12 19 7 Demir Hisar 28 33 5 Karposh 123 299 176 Brvenica 12 24 12 Krivogashtani 5 21 16 Butel 35 60 25 Jegunovce 11 22 11 Gostivar 82 124 42 Shuto Orizari 21 23 2 Mogila 8 14 6 Ilinden 11 40 29 Dojran 8 16 8 Lozovo 4 13 9 Total...

Flirting with NGO-s: Same organisations receive public money every year

Author: Aleksandar Dimitrievski   The Government of RM, in accordance with legislation in the late 90’s, regularly supports associations and foundations. The allocation of a certain amount of money by government decision is made by the current as it was by the previous governments. Various support funds have been opened throughout the years. So today money is given to foundations and associations through separate ministries, municipalities and at least two programs directly through the government. In this research, we focus only on the largest such program called “Transfer to NGOs for financing program activities of citizens’ associations and foundations”. It has the longest history, most money is shared through it, but it itself is sufficiently complex for a journalistic text.   The allocation of these funds is done according to predetermined rules. In a certain part of the year...

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