North Macedonian voters are choosing a new president in a poll that could make life more difficult for the ruling Social Democrats. The entire election will need to be re-run if not enough people turn out to vote.
North Macedonian voters returned to the ballot box on Sunday to vote in a presidential run-off election.
The hotly-contested vote pits Stevo Pendarovski, backed by the ruling Social Democrats, against his nationalist-backed rival Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova.
Both picked up about 41 percent of the vote each in the first round, which saw the ethnic Albanian-backed candidate Blerim Reka squeezed out of the race.
How Reka's supporters now vote — and if they vote at all — will likely prove decisive.
The three-way presidential vote in April had a record-low turnout of 41.9 percent, just above the 40 percent needed to make the poll valid. If Sunday's vote falls below that threshold, it would be annulled and the entire process would have to be restarted.
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