1998 ELECTIONS IN MACEDONIA (ICG Balkans Report N°45)
1998 ELECTIONS IN MACEDONIA (ICG Balkans Report N°45)
Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Inter-Ethnic Relations, Politics and Identity, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Keywords: Macedonia 1998-elections)
Summary/Abstract: Macedonians go to the polls on 18 October 1998 in the first of two rounds of voting to elect 120 members of the country’s parliament. The forthcoming poll is Macedonia’s third general election since the disintegration of one-party communist rule. Moreover, it takes place in the shadow of ethnic violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the neighbouring Serbian province of Kosovo and political instability in neighbouring Albania. Although Macedonia has managed to avoid the violent conflict which has afflicted the rest of the former Yugoslavia, its experience of democracy has so far been mixed. Politics is divided along ethnic lines and the last multi-party elections in 1994 were marred by accusations of fraud with two major parties boycotting the second round of voting.
Series: ICG Balkans Report
- Page Count: 32
- Publication Year: 1998
- Language: English
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