The Judicial Council is to elect a new president of the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Former president Jovo Vangelovski will not attend the Council’s session that he is a member of with the right to vote because his term of office officially ended Tuesday.  

Last week, Vangelovski gave up on the candidature for a second mandate without disclosing the reasons for his withdrawal, briefly commenting that he does this for “personal reasons.” Two candidates remain in the race for this function: former president of Skopje’s Criminal Court Lidija Nedelkova and criminal judge Risto Katavenovski. However, it is uncertain whether Vangelovski’s successor will be chosen on Wednesday because there are speculations in the court circles that chances are great for this voting to end up like the one with the election of the president of the Criminal Court last week when none of the two candidates got the necessary number of votes, Utrinski Vesnik comments.