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North Macedonia: presidential election campaign has begun

The vote takes place on April 21. 3 candidates. Runoff on May 5

01 April, 14:51
(ANSA) - SKOPJE, APR 1 - The election campaign for the April 21 presidential elections officially started today in North Macedonia. Three candidates are running to replace the outgoing president Gjorgje Ivanov (Conservative), whose second five-year term will expire on May 12. The three candidates are Stevo Pendarovski, representing the ruling coalition composed of Social Democrats and the Albanian party Dui, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkovam, representing the opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, and Blerim Reka, representing the Albanian opposition parties. If in the first round none of the three candidates will get 50% plus one vote of those who actually voted, a runoff will be held on May 5. The election will be valid if in the second round the turnout is at least 40%. Those entitled to vote are 1,808,131, out of a population of just over 2m inhabitants. These elections are the first to be held in North Macedonia after the agreement with Greece on the name of the former Yugoslavian country came into force. A deal which ended an almost thirty-year dispute between Skopje and Athens. (ANSA).

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