There will be no electronic voting at the upcoming presidential and local elections, the leaders of the four biggest parliamentary parties agreed at the meeting today, the media report. This meeting, which was held at the initiative of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, was attended by BDI leader Ali Ahmeti, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, and PDSH Chairman Menduh Thaci, as well as Justice Minister Mihajlo Manevski and Information Society Minister Ivo Ivanovski. The prime minister informed that he accepted SDSM’s suggestion that there be no electronic voting at these elections and he announced that the party leaders stressed 22 March as the best date for the elections.

According to the Macedonian Constitution, the elections are supposed to be called by the chairman of the Macedonian Assembly.