Macedonia: Parliamentarian elections

In June 5 Macedonia will be holding Parliamentary elections.

At stake in this election:

120 seats in the Assembly (Sobranie)
Description of government structure:

Chief of State: President Gjorge IVANOV

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 absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 5-year term.

The Prime Minister is elected by parliament.

In the Assembly (Sobranie) 120 members are elected through a closed-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.***

*** The country is divided in 6 electoral districts,with a district magnitude of 20 members. No legal threshold is required for a party to enter the parliament. Votes are tabulated using the D'Hondt formula. At least 30 percent of the candidates on each party list must be of different gender

For more information, please visit IFES Election Guide's Macedonia page.

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