SKOPJE, April 28 (Hina) - Macedonians went to the polls on Wednesday to elect a new president to succeed Boris Trajkovski, who died in a plane crash in February.
SKOPJE, April 28 (Hina) - Macedonians went to the polls on Wednesday to
elect a new president to succeed Boris Trajkovski, who died in a plane
crash in February.#L#
According to first reports, voting in the run-off got under way at 7AM
and no incidents were reported. Presidential candidates who entered
the second election round are pro-Western Prime Minister Branko
Crvenkovski and Sasko Kedev, a heart surgeon who runs for the
nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party.
There are close to 1.7 million eligible Macedonia voters and according
to the Justice Ministry more than 200,000 do not reside in the
country.
The turnout in the first round on April 14 was 55 percent, when none
of four candidates won an absolute majority, forcing a second round
between the two frontrunners. If the election were to fail, it should
be repeated from scratch in 40 days.
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