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Upcoming Elections

  • Parliamentary
    July 2012

Macedonia
  • Macedonia
  • Republic of Macedonia
  • Region: Europe

Description of government structure:

  • Chief of State: President President Branko CRVENKOVSKI
  • Head of Government: Prime Minister Nikola GRUEVSKI
  • Assembly: Macedonia has a unicameral Assembly (Sobranie) with 120 seats.

Description of electoral system:

  • The President is elected by popular vote to serve a 5-year term.
  • In the Assembly (Sobranie) 120 members are elected through a party-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** The country is divided in 6 electoral districts, each electing 20 members. No legal threshold is required for a party to enter the parliament.

* 49 elected by the universities and from candidates put forward by five vocational panels, 11 are nominated by the prime minister

Population:

  • Population: 2,061,315 (July 2008 est.)

Future elections

  • Parliamentary - July 2012

Past elections

Last Updated on 02/04/2010

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