On Monday, April 1, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, Stevo Pendarovski and Blerim Reka are starting the campaign for the sixth presidential election.
Siljanovska-Davkova is the presidential candidate of VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition, Stevo Pendarovski of SDSM and the coalition, and Blerim Reka of the Alliance of Albanians and the Besa movement.

The campaign for presidential elections will last until April 19, followed by a 24-hour election silence, before the voting day.
According to announcements from the election headquarters, the candidates will visit almost all settlements, will have meetings with citizens and rallies in major cities. Promising a peaceful and fair campaign.

In anticipation of the official start of the presidential race, appeals for fair and regular elections to the candidates, political parties and citizens addressed the international community, state officials and the SEC.

The new president will be able to choose 1,808,131 citizens with the right vote recorded in the Voters' List.

According to the SEC, the ballot paper Reka will be ranked number one, Siljanovska - Davkova under number two, and Pendarovski number three.
The first election round for the sixth presidential election is scheduled for April 21, and the second will be held on May 5.

According to Macedonian laws, the presidential candidate can win in the first round if he won over 50% of the votes of all registered voters in the Voters List.

Otherwise, a second round will be held on May 5, in which the two candidates with the most votes from the first round will compete. The turnout in the second round should be over 40 per cent for voting to be considered valid.

The term of incumbent President Gjorgje Ivanov ends on May 12, 2019.

In the upcoming population census, Diaspora expatriates will be able to register only with a statement from their family members.
Presenting their ID number, they will thus be able to prove that they are citizens of Macedonia.

The news was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister Osmani, and this is probably the necessary compromise, after it was announced that the census will still have a column for ethnicity.

In this way, it is expected that the issue that bothered the process will be solved - how the diaspora expatriates will register.

Regarding the census law, Osmani said that the government has harmonized the basic principles. He added that some technical details should be harmonized, after which the law should be passed into the Assembly for adoption.

The census should be conducted from 1 April to 21 April 2020. The last one was realized in 2002 and was followed by numerous debates about the percentage of the population in the country from an ethnic point of view.

The census was in 2011, but was interrupted on the last day of its implementation. The Special Public Prosecutor's Office opened an investigative procedure for the eventual liability for the canceled inventory.