First round of the President election was held today, if the turnout did not reach more than 50% (and it happened), a second round will be held in two weeks on May 8th among the Parliamentary election, diaspora can only vote at Presidential election, because they have not reach certain threshold to hold Parliamentary elections there (less than 3,000 voters are registered, they needed more than 5,000 to at least elect 3 more seats among the 120 seats divided in six 20-seat multi-member consituencies)
Preliminary results with more than 53% of the precincts counted:
Gordana Siljanovska Davkova (VMRO-DPMNE and allies) 37.1%
Stevo Pendarovski (SDSM and allies, incumbent) 18.3%
Bujar Osmani (DUI/European Front alliance) 16.3%
Arben Taravari (AA/VLEN alliance) 12.1%
Maksim Dimitrievski (ZNAM) 7.9%
Biljana Vankovska Cvetkovska (Levica) 4.4%
Stevcho Jakimovski (GROM and allies) 1.0%
Election results:
https://rezultati.sec.mk/en/pres/r
