The electorate for the coming parliamentary elections in Macedonia and abroad has been defined. The State Election Commission (DIK) closed the voters’ list and the registered 1,821,122 citizens of Macedonia will be able to exercise their right to vote on 5 June. A day earlier, 7,258 Macedonian citizens living abroad for more than three months who reported for voting previously will also be entitled to vote. The new Parliament will have 123 MPs, 120 of whom are entrusted terms of office by Macedonia’s six constituencies and three are elected by the diaspora, each from Europe and Africa, North and South America and Australia and Asia.

The elections will be held by the proportionate model in Macedonia and by the majority model in a single round in the diaspora. Over the next twenty days, or more specifically until 3 June at midnight, the parties, coalitions and independent candidates who will be running in the elections will be presenting to the electorate their programs and explaining why people should vote for them.

In the first constituency 302,864 people are entitled to vote, in the second constituency 312,720, in the third 291,140, in the fourth 291,596, in the fifth 303,686 and in the sixth 318,116. In the European constituency there are 4,653 voters, in the American 1,832 and in the Australian 773.

A total of 332 monitors of the OSCE-ODIHR and 3,500 of the civic association Most will be monitoring the elections.