Skopje, 31 October 2025 (MIA) – The two-week campaign leading to the November 2 runoff of the 2025 local elections ends Friday before election silence comes into effect, which ends on Sunday at 7 pm.

Voters will elect mayors in 32 municipalities and the City of Skopje. A re-vote for municipal councillors will be organized in three polling stations in the Municipality of Shuto Orizari in Skopje. The infirm, inmates and people in house arrest will cast their votes on Saturday.

The VMRO-DPMNE-led coalition held its final rally in Skopje on Thursday evening, which was addressed by Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski and the candidate for Skopje mayor, Orce Gjorgjievski.

In the first round, voters in Skopje send a message, said Mickoski, and in the second round we’ll make a historic victory, not only because of the success, but also due to the beginning it symbolises. He called on voters to unite and overcome division on every basis.

Gjorgjievski called on the citizens of the capital on Sunday to vote en mass and to send a message that Skopje “elects hard work and a man that knows and that has shown how people should love their home city.”

The Movement ZNAM - For Our Macedonia will hold Friday a small rally in Skopje with addresses by PM Mickoski, Skopje mayoral candidate Gjorgjievski and Miroslav Labudovikj, the candidate for mayor of Centar municipality.

Amar Mecinovikj, Levica’s candidate for Skopje mayor, will hold a final press conference ahead of Sunday’s runoff.

A total of 474,304 voters are eligible to vote in the City of Skopje on Sunday, who will decide whether VMRO-DPMNE’s Gjorgjievski or Levica’s Mecinovikj will be the new mayor of Skopje. 

Councillors in 79 municipalities and the City of Skopje were elected in the October 19 first round of the local elections as well as mayors of 44 municipalities who have already taken office.