Candidates for President of Macedonia Blerim Reka, Gordana Siljanovska Davkova, and Stevo Pendarovski signed Code for fair and democratic elections on Sunday, a day before the official start of the campaign for the 6th presidential elections, at an event hosted by the State Election Commission.

Blerim Reka, after signing the document, said that the three candidates are well-known and all are colleagues, university professors and, therefore, as he said, he does not expect that the presidential race will be a race for life and death, but it will be a race that may open a new page in election history.

We are entering a new temptation for the state and I think that it is not important who will win, but it is important that the result is legal and regular, and thus provide a date for starting negotiations with the European Union, Reka said.

He wished success to both his rivals and added that the best will win, but stressed that it was most important that they would fulfill the obligations of the Code they signed.

Gordana Siljanovska Davkova pointed out that the upcoming presidential elections are just as important and perhaps more important than law and justice, because, she added, they will strictly adhere to them.

I do not consider my opponents to be enemies, and we women respect ethics. Although I am a woman, I expect a knightly fight with arguments, and not with Byzantine games, I hope that the last word will have the citizens, said Siljanovska Davkova.

Stevo Pendarovski pointed out that it is good that the signing of the Code for fair and democratic elections has finally become a practice that no one has argued.

Although we have witnessed previous election processes in which one thing was signed, and another was done, on my behalf, and I am convinced that also on behalf of my formal opponents, I can guarantee that what we signed today we will practically carry out in action. It means an obligation for the political structures and the citizens who will support us. I have no dilemmas that we three will do everything to stay within the framework of a democratic fight that pertains to a country that is a de facto member of NATO and I expect soon to become a member of the EU, Pendarovski said.

He wished a successful, fair, democratic and transparent election for the country, as he said, so that we can make progress in the integration, and at the same time wished success to his rivals during the election campaign and the election day.