Zaev requests urgent meeting with Albanian opposition leaders as Reka calls for mass turnout on Sunday

Zoran Zaev asked for a meeting with the leaders of the two ethnic Albanian opposition parties Ziadin Sela (AA) and Bilal Kasami (BESA), as the outcome of the presidential elections on May 5th can still go either way, including having them cancelled due to low turnout.

Reportedly, Zaev wants to ask Kasami and Sela for their support to help make Stevo Pendarovski the next President. The two parties won a combined 80.000 votes, chiefly among ethnic Albanians, for their candidate Blerim Reka.

Reka did not endorse a candidate between Pendarovski and the opposition candidate Gordana Siljanovska – Davkova, but today he urged the voters to come out en masse.

I respect your votes and I will say it again – those are your votes, and you have the sacred right to decide who to vote for in the second round. I will not bargain with your votes. I will only ask you to come out on May 5th in high numbers and vote, so that we can save the Euro-Atlantic process, Reka said, while pointing out to the low turnout (42 percent – with 40 percent required to make the elections valid in the second round).