Presidential election in North Macedonia gives voters another chance to give an opinion on their country's new name as polls closed at 7 pm local (1700 GMT)
A man and a child cast a ballot for the presidential elections at a polling station in Skopje, North Macedonia, April 21, 2019.
Gjorge Ivanov, the outgoing nationalist president, cannot run again, having served the maximum two terms."I came to vote out of a sense of duty, but I don't think there is any point," said Pavlina Gosheva, a 53-year old nurse from Skopje. "For us ordinary mortals it won't change anything." "I don't care about the candidates," said Jovan Dimitrovski, a 37-year-old IT engineer. "What counts for me is the economy but I don't see much coming our way."
They include a re-run of the election, doing away with the 40-percent minimum threshold, or even giving parliament the power to appoint a president. Siljanovska served as minister without portfolio in 1992-1994 in the first government after independence and participated in writing the country's first constitution.
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