According to the data of the State Electoral Council at 18:30, in the first round of the presidential elections today in North Macedonia, the turnout was 48.46 percent. At the next conference, the chairman of the SEC, Aleksandar Dashtevski, assessed that the election process went smoothly and there was a relatively large turnout of citizens.

The citizens of North Macedonia today decide in the first round for their future president. This is the seventh presidential election, while the possible second round is held together with the parliamentary elections on May 8. The polls are closed at 19:00. There were a total of 3480 polling stations throughout North Macedonia. Meanwhile, the total number of registered voters is 1.814.317.

The opposition VMRO DPMNE competes with Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova. The Social Democratic League in power with the current president, Stevo Pendarovski. In the election race, the Democratic Union for Integration competes with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bujar Osmani, while the united Albanian opposition competes with Arben Taravar, the current mayor of Gostivar. Maksim Dimitrievski, the mayor of Kumanova, Stevçe Jakimovski, the mayor of Karposh in Skopje and Biljana Vankovska, candidate of the "Left" party, are also part of the election race./KosovaPress/