1 citizens have the right to vote at the polling stations

Elections in Northern Macedonia / Photo: EPA-EFE / GEORGI LICOVSKI

Voting in the seventh local elections since the country's independence began at 7 o'clock.

Voting takes place at 3 polling stations, where 480 citizens can exercise their right to vote until 19 pm.

Out of the total number of voters, 1 are registered in the excerpts of the Voters' List. on election day they are serving prison sentences or are in custody: 740 persons in extra-family accommodation facilities and six voters who, according to the records of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, are registered as displaced persons.

For the first time this year, voters will be identified by biometric fingerprint identification devices. These devices will contain only the personal data of the voters from the Voters' List at the polling station.

Exceptions to the voting with biometric identification devices are the people who voted yesterday - the sick, the powerless, the people with Covid-19 and in self-isolation, whose requests were accepted by the municipal election commissions. Prisoners, detainees, nursing homes and internally displaced persons also voted yesterday.

Source: MIA

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