The polls did not go well as Macedonians were disappointed with the lack of foreign direct investments and a high unemployment rate.
A woman walks past election campaign poster of presidential candidate Gordana Dafkova-Siljanovska on April 21 in Skopje.
But the accord continues to divide Macedonians and has eclipsed all other issues during campaigning for Sunday’s election, in which about 1.8 million voters will choose between three candidates. Reflecting differences over the deal pushed through by the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, the winner of Sunday’s ballot is not expected to secure an outright majority, meaning a run-off vote would be held on May 5.“I expect peaceful and democratic elections,” said Dimitar Stankovski, a 42-year old legal adviser in a private firm after casting his vote.
Pendarovski’s main rival, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, a university professor, is supported by the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party, which strongly opposed the deal.Blerim Reka, the candidate for the second-largest Albanian party Besa, looks set to come a distant third with about seven percent of the vote, the poll showed.
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