Incidents between census officers occurred in Struga and Tetovo on Tuesday because ethnic Albanian census officers as well as party members insisted that emigrants that have lived out of the country for more than a year be taken record of and also because photocopies were accepted as relevant documents, the State Census Commission said.

The conflicting interpretation of the two provisions by VMRO-DPMNE and BDI, as well as by the Macedonian and Albanian members of the State Census Commission reflected on the ground with incidents among the combined census teams.