Analysis of the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Macedonia through the Spectre of Election Models
Analysis of the Parliamentary Elections in the Republic of Macedonia through the Spectre of Election Models

Summary/Abstract: With the introduction of political pluralism in the Republic of Macedonia, the climate was set for the first free, direct and multi-party elections, as a necessary precondition for the improvement of the Macedonian political and democratic order. After their completion , instead of stabilization of the political and party scene in the Republic of Macedonia, the party system reached extreme polarization, which produced a Parliament where not a single party was able to win the absolute majority of votes, contributing to the formation of unstable governments. Bacause the practice in the Republic of Macedonia showed that neither the majority election model contributed to the creation of stable political institutions, nor it presented a realistic picture of the mood of the constituency, after two election cycles, the third parliamentary elections in the Republic of Macedonia were organized according to the mixed election model. The adventages that this election model possesses in theory, did not work in the desired way in practice, therefore after only one elction cycle, this model was changed and the parliamentary elections in 2002 were conducted using the proportional method and according to D'Hondt's formula for mandate allocation. The election in 2006 and the early parliamentary election in 2008 were conducted using this method, and because it has managed to "survive" for three elections cycle, we can hope that the Republic of Macedonia has finally found the "real" election model.

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