Despite being blacklisted by the US, there are no legal obstacles preventing GROM candidate Stevco Jakimovski, who’s also the Mayor of Karpos, from running for President.
Answering a question from the Interior Ministry, the State Election Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday that conditions for electing the President were referred to in the Constitution.
According to the Electoral Code, a person meeting conditions defined by the Constitution is allowed to be a presidential candidate, with those conditions being: for them to be a North Macedonia citizen, for them to be at least 40, and for them to be a resident of for at least ten years in the last fifteen years.
“Other conditions are not provided for in the Code,” the SEC said.