Skopje, 27 October 2025 – Director of the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services Zoran Trajchevski held a working meeting today, at the Agency’s premises, with H.E. Mr. Christophe Le Rigoleur, Ambassador of the French Republic to the country.[…]
Skopje, 27 October 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services reminds broadcasters that today is the final deadline for publishing results from public opinion surveys related to the second round of the 2025 Local Elections.[…]
Skopje, 20 October 2025 – Due to violations of the election silence during the first round of the 2025 Local Elections, based on reports from the monitoring of media election coverage, the Council of the Agency decided, at its 15th Session held today, to initiate misdemeanour proceedings against TV 24 Vesti and TV Vistel.[…]
Skopje, 17 October 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services informs broadcasters that the election campaign for the first round of the Local Elections lasts until 24:00 hrs on 17 October 2025. From 18th of October until 19:00 hrs on 19th of October, the rules for election silence apply[…]
Skopje, 13 October 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services wishes to remind broadcasters that, in accordance with the Electoral Code, the results of public opinion polls related to the 2025 Local Elections may be published no later than five days before the date set for holding the first round of elections, i.e. no later than 24:00 hrs on 13 October 2025.[…]
Skopje, 9 October 2025 – At a session held on 6 October 2025, The Administrative Court issued a ruling dismissing the lawsuit filed by the Levica political party, which sought to annul the Guidelines for Broadcasters for the 2025 Local Elections, adopted by the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMU)[…]
Skopje, 8 October 2025 – On 3 October 2025, the First-Instance Civil Court in Skopje issued a Ruling rejecting as unfounded the motion in the lawsuit filed by the political party of Levica against the Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMU). The motion requested a temporary measure that would prohibit the Agency from distributing the Guidelines for Broadcasters for the 2025 Local Elections to commercial media outlets, and submitting the report on broadcast paid political advertising (PPA) to the State Election Commission (SEC), which uses that report as the basis for allocating and disbursing funds for PPA[…]
Skopje, 7 October 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services (AVMU) has issued a strong condemnation of the language used by Zoran Bozhinovski, editor-in-chief of burevesnik.info, in his posts on the social media platform Facebook, directed at male and female journalists[…]
Skopje, 7 October 2025 – The Agency for Audio and Audiovisual Media Services has prepared a monitoring report on broadcasters for the period from the announcement of the elections to the official start of the campaign for the 2025 Local Elections – specifically, from 10 August to 28 September 2025[…]
Skopje, 7 October 2025 – During the monitoring of election-related media coverage on Gurra TV’s programming on 30 September, and 2, 3, and 4 October 2025 – during the first round of the 2025 Local Elections – the Agency found that during several clock hours of broadcasting, this media outlet had exceeded the legally permitted limits for paid political advertising, thus violating the Electoral Code[…]