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Two pairs of elections today in North Macedonia - the new President in the "hands" of the Albanians
2024-05-08 07:27:29 / BOTA
In North Macedonia this Wednesday, May 8, two pairs of elections are held: the second round of the presidential elections, as well as the parliamentary elections. They will pave the way for the formation of the new Government by the winning party, which will manage to secure the 61 votes necessary for the formation of the new executive.
The dilemma remains whether today it will be possible to elect the president of the state, since there is an electoral threshold of 40 percent of voting. Based on the first round of elections, on April 24, when there were seven candidates in the race, about 49 percent of the 1.8 million citizens with the right to vote turned out.
There are two candidates in the race, the winner of the first round, Gordana Silanovska-Davkova, who won 363,000 votes, and the current president, Stevo Pendarovski, with 180,000 votes.
In order to elect the new president, about 750,000 voters must turn out, or the voters of the candidates who were eliminated in the first round must turn out.
But, until now, none of them has come out publicly to call on their voters to go to the polls, raising the dilemma of whether the polls will reach the constitutional threshold.
Of the Albanian candidates, Bujar Osmani from the European Front headed by the Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) received the most votes in the first round, a total of 120,000 votes. Meanwhile, Arben Taravari from the opposition coalition VLEN, received 83 thousand votes.
DUI has not publicly taken a stand on whether it will support any candidate or invite a boycott, but its exponents, on social networks, have continuously called for a boycott of the presidential elections on May 8.
Even the VLEN coalition did not call for voting for the election of the president, but based on the positions of its leaders, and the May 6 meeting of Arben Taravar with the head of VMRO DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, as well as the positions of exponents of her on social networks, then her voters can go to the polls for the election of the president.
But, for the elections not to fail, it is necessary that the members of the other four candidates also appear in the elections, in particular Maksim Dimitrievski, who managed to win about 84,000 votes.
If the elections fail, then the mandate will be given to the party winning the parliamentary elections by the Acting Speaker of the Assembly, Jovan Mitrevski, and then the procedures for new presidential elections will begin.
However, the repetition of the elections for the head of state would be organized by the new Government, which according to the leader of the Macedonian opposition, Hristijan Mickoski, will consist of the VMRO DPMNE and the Albanian opposition coalition VLEN.
Mickoski, on May 6, visited the headquarters of the Albanian opposition in Skopje to promote the new government coalition, while a few hours later Taravari said that the new Government has already been agreed upon.
"I promise with faith that I and all the representatives of VLEN when we form the government, two or three days after the elections, we will run even more strongly than in the campaign. We will not be comfortable in the armchairs fixing and adding doors to our houses, but we will work for your doors that we opened even without knocking", said Arben Taravari in Tetovo at the last meeting of the VLEN coalition.
DUI has called Taravari's statements "fairytales with a king" since the head of DUI, Ali Ahmeti, says that the Government is formed by the parties that won the elections in the Albanian and Macedonian camps.
"Today is the time to define ourselves correctly with well-compiled, well-designed platforms, because on May 9, we all have to think, despite others who say that he enters, he leaves the government. These are 'tales with a king', because the Government and the institutions are made by those who have the support of the people, because the people bring you down, the people bring you up", Ahmeti declared.
In North Macedonia, until 2017, the governments were formed by the winning Albanian and Macedonian parties, regardless of their program orientations.
The Democratic Union for Integration has been part of the Government, both with the SDSM and with the VMRO DPMNE that won the elections in the Macedonian electorate.
This rule continued until 2017 when the Government was formed by SDSM, even though it had lost the elections to the Macedonian electorate.
She managed to form the parliamentary majority with the votes of the Albanian parties and form the Government by removing from power the VMRO DPMNE-led by Nikola Gruevski./ REL
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