Police in Kocani reported that they detained a 53 year old man who was distributing money to would-be voters in the second round of the local elections.

The man was paying out 1,500 denars – 25 EUR to get an unspecified number of voters to support one of the two mayoral candidates – the police did not reveal who. The incumbent Mayor Nikolco Ilijev from SDSM faces a narrow race against Ljupco Papazov from VMRO-DPMNE on Sunday.