The newly elected president of the Republic of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, will be sworn in today as the sixth president of the country and the first woman in this function in the country, BTA reported. The sitting of the country's parliament was scheduled for 12:00 local time yesterday afternoon after the State Electoral Commission announced and tabled in parliament the official results of the country's May 8 presidential vote.
Today the 5-year term of President Stevo Pendarovski, who failed to win a second term, will vacate the presidential residence Villa “Vodno” in Skopje to Gordana Siljanovska.
According to the constitution of North Macedonia, the term of office of the president is five years with the right to one more re-election.
According to the Greek media, Greece will carefully monitor the name of the country Siljanovska will pronounce, who announced in the election campaign that she will not use "Severna". in the name of the country, which is entered in the contract by Prespa.
Silyanovska also has her own opinion regarding the country's negotiation framework for EU membership, believing that it “can be interpreted in a different way” and announced that her first visits will be in the region with the aim of developing regional cooperation.
According to his powers, the president of the country determines to whom to give a mandate to form the government, which Gordana Siljanovska will have to do within 10 days after the constitution of the new parliament of North Macedonia. Her swearing-in today will take place in front of the old parliamentary composition, as the presidential and parliamentary elections were held together.
After the remaining functions of the President of North Macedonia are appointing and dismissing ambassadors by decree, the President accepts letters of credit and recalls foreign diplomatic representatives, concludes international treaties on behalf of the state, awards awards and pardons. The president also signs decrees to promulgate laws, has the right of a deferral veto, and is the supreme commander of the armed forces as well as the chairman of the Security Council. There is no position of vice president in North Macedonia.
The first president of the independent Republic of Macedonia was Stip-born Kiro Gligorov, who was first elected president by the country's parliament in January 1991, when he received the support of 114 of the 119 deputies present, and his second term was after the first direct presidential elections in the country.
During his terms, on September 8, 1991, the referendum on the independence of the country was held, the only one of the former Yugoslav republics to become independent peacefully. On November 17, 1991, the new constitution was adopted, and on April 8, 1993, the then Republic of Macedonia became the 181st member of the United Nations.
Gligorov survived an assassination attempt in October 1995, carried out with a car bomb parked on the street "Macedonia" in the center of Skopje, while Gligorov was traveling in a company car. The perpetrators of the attack have not been revealed.
Boris Trajkovski, born in Strumica, was the second president of the Republic of Macedonia, who took office on December 15, 1999, and died tragically in a plane crash on February 26, 2004, along with eight members of his cabinet and the pilots of the state plane near Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During his mandate, in 2001, an armed conflict took place in the country, which ended with the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement in August of the same year.
Branko Crvenkovski is the third president of the Republic of (North) Macedonia (2004-2009), having won the presidential elections while serving as the country's prime minister. During his mandate, the country became a candidate member of the European Union.
The fourth head of state is Gheorghe Ivanov, who managed to win two consecutive terms in office (2009-2019). The last year of his second term was marked by his refusal to sign the Law on the Use of Languages, the Law on Amnesty for the Accused of the Events in the Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia on 27 April 2017 and the Decree Ratifying the Prespa Treaty with Greece, which opened the country's path to NATO, but the country had to change its constitutional name to the Republic of North Macedonia.
When the country's fifth president Stevo Pendarovski took office, the presidential residence Villa “Vodno” was the only state institution in front of which still stood a sign with the unchanged name of the state.