Proposing of candidates for members of the council and mayor shall be done by submitting a list of candidates and/or a candidate for mayor.
The list of candidates and the list of candidate for mayor are proposed by the registered political parties and a group of voters.
When a group of voters is a submitter of a list of candidates or a list of candidate for mayor, it is necessary to collect:
- in a municipality with up to 10,000 residents, at least 100 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the pertinent municipality;
- in a municipality with 10,001 - 30,000 residents, at least 150 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the pertinent municipality;
- in a municipality with 30,001 - 50,000 residents, at least 250 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the pertinent municipality;
- in a municipality with 50,001 - 100,000 residents, at least 350 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the pertinent municipality;
- in a municipality with over 100,001 residents, at least 450 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the pertinent municipality; and
- for the City of Skopje, at least 1,000 signatures of the registered voters in the excerpt of the Voters’ List for the territory of the City of Skopje.
The submitters shall submit to the Election Commission the lists of candidates and/or the list of candidate for mayor no later than 35 days prior to Election Day.
