Macedonia

Population Statistics

2,096,015

Total Population

314,402

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

29 December 2011

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Electoral Code (2006, last amended 2014)

Updated: June 2015

Article 2, paragraph 1 states:

Every citizen of the Republic of Macedonia who is at least 18 years of age and has active legal capacity shall have the ‘Right to vote’

 

Article 3 states:

The President of the Republic, the Members of Parliament, the Members of Councils and the Mayor, shall be elected at general, direct, and free elections, by secret ballot...

 

Excerpts from the Electoral Code (2006, last amended 2014)

Constitution of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1991, amended 2011)

Updated: June 2015

Article 22 states:

Every citizen on reaching 18 years of age acquires the right to vote. The right to vote is equal, universal and direct, and is exercised at free elections by secret ballot…

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (1991, last amended 2011)