By 10 am based on processed information from 85.56 percent of the polling stations, in all nine constituencies (six in the Republic of Macedonia and three abroad), 14.02 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots, said Boris Kondarko, President of the State Election Commission (DIK) at the first press conference Sunday.
The turnout was the greatest in the third constituency, where 18.61 percent of the registered voters went to the polls by 10 am, and the lowest in the sixth constituency, where based on information from 98.31 percent of the polling stations, only 7.9 percent of the voters cast ballots.
DIK President Kondarko said that no reports of irregularities had so far been submitted to the Commission and that the vote was being carried out peacefully.
According to the monitors of the civic association MOST, since the opening of the polling stations irregularities have occurred at three polling stations, in Stip, Centar Zupa and Studenicani.