Since seven o’clock in the morning, residents of the Brvenica municipality have turned to ballot boxes to elect the mayor.

Facing each other in the race are Stojano Radicevski from the ruling party, O BRUCH and Arkin Jahji from the AKI coalition.

In the first round, held on October 18th, Radicevski won 2,945 votes, or 38,89 per cent, while Arkin Jahiji received 2,152 votes, or 28,42 per cent, followed by Jakup Hussein by V LEN with 1.529 votes (20.19%), while LSDM candidate Jovica Radeski received 707 votes (9.34%).

After the results were announced, VLEN candidate Hussein went to the central headquarters of AKI and congratulated Jahij on the success achieved and the transition to the second round.

According to the KSHZ, a total of 16,256 voters are registered in the municipality’s municipality of Brvenica, and that is: Brvenica, Radiovca, Chellolopek, Miletin, Tenova, Gurgurnica, South Sedlarza, Stence, Volkovo and Blace.

For ethnic composition, according to the 2021 Population census, in Brvenice Albanians make up about 54,06 percent of the community’s resident population, 7,377 residents respectively, Macedonians make up 41,88 percent, or 5,715, while the rest belong to other communities.

Early mayoral elections in the municipality are being organised after President Jovica Ilievski passed unexpectedly.