Turnout Is Key in Macedonian Vote on Ethnic Rights
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Three years after a narrow escape from full-scale civil war, Macedonia holds a referendum on Sunday that its Western friends warn could mark a step backwards on the road to stable, multi-ethnic democracy.
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Macedonia's failed referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the ethnic Albanian minority met European standards despite opposition claims of fraud, European observers said.
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LONDON/SKOPJE, 8 November 2004 - An anti-Muslim referendum forced by Macedoniaâs nationalist opposition VMRO-DPMNE party against added rights for the ethnic Albania minority is likely to fail due to low voter turnout yesterday.
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Macedonia's peace process was at a crossroads Sunday as voters cast ballots in a referendum on whether to grant local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians or risk undermining a peace pact with the restive ...
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World Macedonian Congress (SMK) Chairman Todor Petrov on 1 September presented a petition to the Macedonian parliament calling for a referendum on the government's plans to cut the number of administrative ...
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Serbians are voting on Sunday in presidential elections, the first since Serbia became independent last year.
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Macedonia faced a period of coalition  building on Thursday following a national election that sank  the ruling coalition and assuaged European Union concerns over  the country&#039;s democratic maturity.
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Albanians have cast ballots in municipal elections seen as a gauge of democratic headway made in the former communist bastion as it bids for eventual European Union and NATO membership.
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Ethnic tensions resurface in Macedonia as it prepares to vote on crucial boundary reforms.
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Macedonian opposition parties looked  headed for a flop on Sunday in their referendum bid to block a  Western-inspired law that gives the ethnic Albanian minority  more local autonomy.
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Macedonian opposition parties looked headed for a flop on Sunday in their referendum bid to block a Western-inspired law that gives the ethnic Albanian minority more local autonomy.
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Voting is due to being in Hungary on a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system. Voters are being asked whether to offer citizenship to about 5 million ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary.
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The ethnic divisions evident in the presidential vote raise a warning sign for parliamentary elections scheduled for next spring. Hamid Karzaiâs inauguration as Afghanistanâs first democratically elected president seems a foregone conclusion.
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SKOPJE : Macedonia&#39;s failed referendum to overturn EU-backed legislation giving more autonomy to the ethnic Albanian minority met European standards despite opposition claims of fraud, European observers said.
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An official of Macedonia&#39;s ruling coalition says Sunday&#39;s referendum challenging ethnic Albanian autonomy will go down to defeat for lack of sufficient turnout.
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Montenegro residents went to the polls Sunday in an election critical to the new country's goal of joining the European Union and NATO.
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Bosnians were reluctant voters in their third post-war local elections this weekend, with the ruling Croat, Muslim and Serb nationalists benefiting from the lower turnout, early results indicated.