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Ivanov set to win Macedonia presidential election runoff - poll

Tue, Mar 31 2009 12:12 CET

byClive Leviev-Sawyer

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Ivanov set to win Macedonia presidential election runoff - poll

Opinion polls in Macedonia indicate that Georgi Ivanov, candidate for the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, will defeat his rival Ljubomir Frckovski in the country's April 5 presidential elections.

VMRO-DPMNE leader, prime minister Nikola Gruevski, called the latest in a series of meetings of political leaders on March 31 2009. The meetings are being held to avert the elections being marred by a repeat of the violence that hit Macedonia's June 2008 parliamentary elections.

The first round of Macedonia's presidential elections on March 22 2009 passed with no significant violence but the opposition social democrat SDSM, for which Frckovski is the presidential candidate, alleged that the ruling party had exploited state institutions in its campaign.

Ivanov and Frckovski have met in a television debate but it seems to have had no significant impact on their respective support.

Balkan Insight reported on March 27 2009 that neither Ivanov nor Frckovski could count on securing the votes of runners-up, Imer Selmani and Ljube Boskoski.

The two runners-up said that they would not give their backing to either candidate in the second round or advise their support base on whom to back.

Meanwhile, a poll by the Democratic Institute said that half of Macedonian citizens did not intend voting in the presidential elections second round on April 5.

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