(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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