(ANSA) - SKOPJE - The presidential election is scheduled for Sunday in North Macedonia, to replace the outgoing president Gjorgje Ivanov (Conservative party) who after two five-year terms could no longer run for president. The candidates are Stevo Pendarovski (ruling coalition), Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova member of the conservative opposition and Blerim Reka, member of the ethnic Albanian party in the coalition, DUI. A recent poll gave Pendarovski 27.2% of the national vote, 23.5% to Siljanovska-Davkova and 11% to Reka. If no one gets 50% plus one vote, a run-off will take place on May 5. According to local rules, however, the run-off run will be valid only if it records a turnout of at least 40%. Stevo Pendarovski (56yo), a professor and analyst was a candidate in the 2014 presidential election, supported by the ruling coalition between the Social Democrats and the Albanian DUI party. Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova (64yo), the candidate for the conservative Vmro-Dpmne opposition party, is also a university professor and jurist. Blerim Reka (59yo), supported by two parties of the Albanian minority in the opposition, is a lecturer at the Faculty of South Eastern Europe at the University of Skopje. The election scheduled for Sunday is the first election to be held in North Macedonia after the entry into force of the agreement with Greece on the name agreement of the former Yugoslavian country, a deal that settled an almost thirty-year dispute between Skopje and Athens, and which paved the way for the integration of North Macedonia into Nato and the EU. The citizens who have the right to vote are 1,808,131. (ANSA).