Additional information about gender quotas

Before making quotas mandatory, the Social Democratic Party, the Liberal Democratic Party, and the Liberal Party practiced gender quotas for candidate lists (Dimitrevska 2005: 45). In the 2011 elections, 34 women were elected. However, seven of the elected candidates declined their parliamentary mandate and were therefore replaced by ‘next-in-line’ candidates from the same party, raising the actual number of female parliamentarians to 38. (IPU Parline , 2011).

The Electoral Code (rev. 2017) includes in its article 21 "the principle of adequate and equitable and gender representation in the election management bodies" by the representation of, at least, a 30% of each gender for election management bodies.

General elections were planned for April 2020. However, due to the coronavirus situation, they have been postponed .