Macedonia is moving in the wrong direction, shows the latest poll of Market Vision, conducted at the request of Pressing TV.

One week before the first round of the presidential election, the results of the poll show that 18.6% of the respondents would vote for the VMRO-DPMNE and the “For Better Macedonia” coalition candidate, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, and 18% for the joint candidate of SDSM and DUI, Stevo Pendarovski. 8.4% said they would vote for the candidate supported by BESA and the Alliance for Albanians, Blerim Reka.

A large percentage of the respondents 28.7% said that they still do not know who they would vote for or refused to answer. 26.3% said they would not vote or that they did not know whether they would vote.

Asked for which the party would vote if parliamentary elections were held tomorrow – 14.2% said that they would vote for VMRO-DPMNE, 13% for SDSM, 3.1% for Alliance for Albanians, 2.8% for DUI, and 1.2% for BESA. The number of those who do not know, or 23.5%, and those who did not want to respond, or 23.7%, is again large.

73.7% of the respondents said they would vote in the elections, while 15.6% said that they would not vote.

48.7% of the respondents said that the state is moving in a bad direction at this moment, and 39.1% said that it is moving in a good direction.

54.2% do not believe that the presidential election can change the country for the better, and 32% say it can.

The public opinion poll shows that Gordana Siljanovska Davkova has greater support among the Macedonians. 17.8% of the respondents of Macedonian nationality said they would vote for the VMRO-DPMNE and the coalition’s candidate, and 12% for Stevo Pendarovski. 2.5% of the respondents of Albanian nationality said they would vote for Stevo Pendarovski and 7.5% for Blerim Reka.

The poll shows that many of the young respondents support Gordana Siljanovska Davkova. Of the respondents aged 19 to 29, data shows that 3.4% would vote for Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, 1.9% for Stevo Pendarovski and 1.3% for Blerim Reka.

The poll was conducted on April 14 -15, 2019 with Computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), on a sample of 668 respondents (margin of error: 10% (+ -5%); confidence interval: 99%).

The sample is representative by region, sex and age. In terms of nationality, at the request of Pressing TV, a scenario was developed in which the percentage of the Albanian population is 22% calculated as an average of the data from the 2002 Census of Population (25%) and data reported in some media for assessing the Albanian population in Macedonia (18%).