Publication

This commentary analyzes the April 2014 presidential and parliamentary elections in Macedonia, which it concludes were efficiently administered, not free and unfair. In leading up to this conclusion, the commentary 1) highlights the elections' biggest shortcomings, including phantom voters, vote-buying and media control; and 2) wonders whether the election results would have been any different under genuinely democratic conditions. The analysis then ends by providing recommendations to outside actors on how they can continue to foster the growth of constitutional liberalism in Macedonia.