Gordana Siljanovska, nominated by VMRO-DPMNE, and Stevo Pendarovski, supported by SDSM, are the two candidates for president of North Macedonia who are going to the second round of the elections on May 8, the results of 98.18 percent processed protocols by the State Electoral Commission in North Macedonia.
The difference between the two is 176,446 thousand votes in favor of Gordana Siljanovskain a percentage ratio, 40.20 percent of the voters who participated in the first round of the presidential elections voted for her, and 20 percent for Pendarovski, with a voter turnout of 49.93 percent, BTA reports.
In the race between the candidates in the Albanian political bloc, raised by the “European Front” coalition, led by DSI Bujar Osmani and the candidate of the coalition of Albanian opposition parties “Deserve” Arben Taravari, the result is in favor of Bujar Osmani – with about 35 thousand votes .
Maxim Dimitrievski, nominated by the ZNAM movement, received 9.04 percent of the votes, and the candidate of the Left, Bilyana Vankovska, who received 4.57 percent of the voters, said that the “vanguard” voted for her, and the people are clearly not at the stage yet of the vision she offered them in her program.
Supporters of the party of the leader of the first round had gathered last night to celebrate in front of the VMRO-DPMNE headquarters in Skopje.
Greeted with shouts of “Victory”, the chairman of VMRO-DPMNE, Hristiyan Mitskoski, announced that the candidate for president of North Macedonia, nominated by the party, Gordana Siljanovska, won the first round of the presidential elections with more than 170 thousand votes.
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“I promised that we would win by at least 100,000 votes, and we won by over 170,000 votes. We said a lot of things that would happen, they didn’t believe us, they underestimated us, they thought they were dealing with small children, but thanks to we people showed and proved that Macedonia exists and will exist for a very long time. They attacked us from within, they tried to divide us, to divide Macedonia, to divide the people. They used structures from the VMRO-DPMNE past to attack us , but we endured because we believed and because the people of Macedonia were with us”Mickoski said.
He defined Siljanovska’s election victory as a tsunami that “on May 8 will completely submerge them” and added that the results of the first round of the presidential elections are “the yellow card and the red card is needed on May 8 against this criminal and corrupt government.” .
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In the opposing camp of the rulers, the mood was low. The chairman of the SDSM addressed his supporters, saying that despite their disappointment, now is not the time to give up.
“We were hoping for better results, but it’s clear that people punished us for some mistakes and we accept it. It’s a heavy blow for (North) Macedonia’s European perspective, but it’s not too late to change direction, to refuse is not an option for us. It is time to put aside our differences and unite behind the idea of a European (Northern) Macedonia. We have to put aside all the differences, because we are talking about the future of the country and if we miss the chance, it will take much longer. to get her back on track”said Dimitar Kovachevski.
SDSM will never give up on the European future of (North) Macedonia, he said at a press conference at the headquarters of the SDSM in Skopje, after it became clear that Stevo Pendarovski enters the second round of the presidential elections, which will be held on May 8, with a difference of over 140 thousand votes in favor of Gordana Siljanovska, nominated by VMRO – DPMNE.
On May 8, together with the second round of the presidential elections in North Macedonia, there will be a vote for the country’s parliament, and it will be of crucial importance what appeal the two Albanian candidates who failed in the runoff will make to their sympathizers for support in the second round.
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