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    "country_name": "North Macedonia",
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    "date": "2028-05-27",
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    "timezone": "Europe/Skopje",
    "status": "scheduled",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-10-02T12:00:00Z",
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    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-10-02: Constitution of the Republic of North Macedonia arts. 63, 80, 81, 90 and Amendment XXXI (English text, sobranie.mk); Electoral Code (Sl. vesnik 40/2006 as amended to 215/2021, consolidated text) arts. 12, 14, 15, 101, 119-123, 127, 135, 147-151; ODIHR EOM Final Report on the 24 April and 8 May 2024 elections (23 Sep 2024); BTA 28 and 31 May 2024, Kurir 28 May 2024, IPU Parline (constitutive session 28 May 2024); AP 12 May 2024 (presidential oath); RFE/RL 23 Jun 2024, 30 Aug 2020, 1 Jun 2017 (government votes). sec.mk and rezultati.sec.mk could not be read on 2 Oct 2026 (Cloudflare 522 / bot challenge)",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/north-macedonia-legislative-2028",
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        "id": "sobranie",
        "key": "north-macedonia-legislative-2028/sobranie",
        "name": "Assembly (Sobranie)",
        "body": "legislature-unicameral",
        "seats": 120,
        "seats_provisional": false,
        "polls_close_utc": "2028-05-27T17:00:00Z",
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          "name": "State Election Commission",
          "name_local": "Државна изборна комисија",
          "role": "electoral-commission",
          "homepage": "https://www.sec.mk/",
          "results_index": "https://rezultati.sec.mk/",
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          "from": "2028-06-02T22:00:00Z",
          "by": "2028-07-01T21:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "Electoral Code (2021 text) art. 148: candidate lists may object to the SEC within 48 hours of the close (voting) or of the preliminary results (tabulation); the SEC decides within 72 hours; a lawsuit to the Administrative Court lies within 24 hours and the court decides within 48 hours (art. 151(7)); art. 151(8): voting annulled at a polling station is repeated 14 days after polling day, where it can affect the result; art. 135(2): the SEC publishes the final results within 24 hours of their becoming final. Results become final per electoral district. 2024 precedent (ODIHR Final Report): polling 8 May; SEC conclusions on finality adopted on 18 May (day 10) for most districts, 27 May (district 5) and 30 May 2024 (district 6, day 22), after a repeat vote on 22 May. The opening (day 7, 3 Jun 2028 local) is an ESTIMATED floor from the complaint deadlines. The window errs late and closes at the end of day 35 (1 Jul 2028, CEST). Appeals are decided by the Administrative Court before finality; no court confirms the result afterwards, so there is no court-validation stage."
        },
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            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2028-05-27T17:00:00Z",
            "by": "2028-05-28T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": "2028-06-02T22:00:00Z",
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Electoral Code art. 101: voting 07:00-19:00; Skopje is on CEST (UTC+2) in May, so the close is 17:00 UTC. Art. 135(1): the SEC publishes preliminary results received electronically as they come in, and results based on the municipal commissions' records 'во рок од 12 часа по завршувањето на изборите' (by about 05:00 UTC the next morning). 2024 precedent: the SEC published partial results by polling station on an ongoing basis after the close of the 8 May 2024 vote (ODIHR Final Report); in the 24 Apr 2024 presidential first round it announced preliminary results on 90 per cent of protocols shortly before midnight. The window closes at the end of the day after polling day. Preliminary, not the final result.",
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          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2028-06-02T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2028-07-01T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Electoral Code (2021 text) art. 148: candidate lists may object to the SEC within 48 hours of the close (voting) or of the preliminary results (tabulation); the SEC decides within 72 hours; a lawsuit to the Administrative Court lies within 24 hours and the court decides within 48 hours (art. 151(7)); art. 151(8): voting annulled at a polling station is repeated 14 days after polling day, where it can affect the result; art. 135(2): the SEC publishes the final results within 24 hours of their becoming final. Results become final per electoral district. 2024 precedent (ODIHR Final Report): polling 8 May; SEC conclusions on finality adopted on 18 May (day 10) for most districts, 27 May (district 5) and 30 May 2024 (district 6, day 22), after a repeat vote on 22 May. The opening (day 7, 3 Jun 2028 local) is an ESTIMATED floor from the complaint deadlines. The window errs late and closes at the end of day 35 (1 Jul 2028, CEST). Appeals are decided by the Administrative Court before finality; no court confirms the result afterwards, so there is no court-validation stage.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2028-06-02T22:00:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 63: the new Assembly holds its Constitutive Session within 20 days of the election (by 16 Jun 2028 on the tentative date) and verifies the mandates; art. 90: within ten days of the Assembly's constitution the President entrusts the mandate to form a government to a candidate of the majority party or parties, the mandatary has twenty days to submit a programme and proposed cabinet, and the Assembly elects the government by a majority of all MPs. No government before the Constitutive Session; the opening is ESTIMATED as the earliest final result. The vote itself has no deadline.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
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        ],
        "sources": [
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            "url": "https://rezultati.sec.mk/",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "State Election Commission (Државна изборна комисија) results site, an index of past elections, not a page for this election. On 2 Oct 2026 it answered only with a Cloudflare bot challenge (HTTP 403) and www.sec.mk returned Cloudflare 522, so its contents could not be checked; ODIHR's 2024 report cites 'the SEC results website'. No per-election URL is predicted.",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://www.sobranie.mk/content/EN%20DOKUMENTI/USTAVen.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
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            "note": "Constitution art. 63 (Assembly's English text): MPs are elected for four years; 'The length of the mandate shall be reckoned from the Constitutive Session'; 'Elections for Members of the Assembly ... shall be held within the last 90 days of the term of the current Assembly, or within 60 days from the day of dissolution'; the new Assembly must hold its Constitutive Session 'within 20 days at the latest after the election'; the Assembly is dissolved by a majority of all MPs. DATE (tentative): the current Assembly held its first (Constitutive) Session on Tuesday 28 May 2024 (IPU Parline, 'Date of the first session'; BTA and Kurir, 28 May 2024, Kurir listing verification of the new MPs' mandates on the agenda). Electoral Code art. 15(4): the mandate runs from verification 'but not longer than four years', so it ends on 28 May 2028 and the 90-day window runs from 29 Feb to 27 May 2028. The law fixes no weekday (2024 voted on a Wednesday), so the latest day clearly inside the term, Saturday 27 May 2028, is used; if 28 May itself counts, the latest date is Sunday 28 May 2028. Check against 2024: the 2020 Assembly was constituted on 4 Aug 2020 and the regular 2024 election on 8 May 2024 fell inside its last 90 days. SNAP RISK: if the Assembly dissolves itself, the election is held within 60 days of dissolution instead.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://levica.mk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Izboren-zakonik.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Electoral Code (Изборен законик, Sl. vesnik 40/2006), consolidated text 'актуелен' through amendment 215/2021, source line 'Собрание на Република Северна Македонија', hosted by a third party (levica.mk); no official consolidated text after 2021 was found. ODIHR reports further amendments of 7 Mar and 1 Apr 2024 (which, among other things, 'specified deadlines for resolving election disputes'); the article numbers and deadlines quoted here are from the 2021 text and should be re-checked against the current text. Art. 12: the Speaker calls the election 70-90 days before polling day, published in the Služben vesnik. Art. 101: voting 07:00-19:00. Art. 135: SEC publishes preliminary results within 12 hours of the close and final results within 24 hours of their becoming final. Art. 15(1): MP elections are held every fourth year in the last 90 days of the mandate or within 60 days of dissolution.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.osce.org/sites/default/files/f/documents/5/e/576648.pdf",
            "role": "observer-report",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "ODIHR EOM Final Report, 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections: the Speaker announced the regular 8 May 2024 election on 14 Feb 2024; preliminary results posted from the close; complaints led to annulment at seven polling stations and a repeat vote on 22 May 2024; SEC conclusions on the final results per electoral district adopted on 18, 27 and 30 May 2024. 120 MPs in six in-country districts; IPU Parline notes three further seats for voters abroad, left vacant in 2024 because too few expatriate voters registered.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_North_Macedonia",
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            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.sec.mk/",
            "role": "authority-home",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
            "check": null
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        "government": {
          "earliestUtc": "2028-06-02T22:00:00Z",
          "precedentDays": [
            171,
            46,
            46
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          "note": "Days from polling day to the Assembly's vote electing the government: 2016 election (11 Dec 2016) to Zaev government 31 May 2017 (171); 15 Jul 2020 to Zaev government 30 Aug 2020 (46); 8 May 2024 to Mickoski government 23 Jun 2024 (46). Vote dates from RFE/RL reports, not yet checked against sobranie.mk or vlada.mk. A government market needs a deadline beyond the longest precedent."
        },
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        "live_count": null,
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/north-macedonia-legislative-2028#sobranie"
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