Seven candidates – four Macedonians and three Albanians – succeeded in collecting the necessary 10,000 signatures for their presidential candidacies and thus entered the race for president of Macedonia. Professor Gjorgji Ivanov will represent the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE; Professor Ljubomir Frckoski will represent opposition party SDSM; diplomat Nano Ruzin will represent LDP; while Ljube Boskoski will run as independent candidate. Former Health Minister Imer Selmani will be New Democracy’s presidential candidate; Mirushe Hoxha will represent PDSH; while BDI nominated Agron Buxhaku.

The independent candidates Slagjana Taseva and George Atanasovski, PODEM candidate Blagoja Markovski, and a few other candidates were not able to collect 10,000 signatures by the deadline, which expired on 3 February.