Macedonia got the first female president in its existence after the university professor Gordana Siljanovska Davkova won the second round of the presidential elections supported by VMRO-DPMNE with twice as many votes as the current president.
The two faced each other in 2019, but then Pendarovski was more successful and won with over 57.000 votes.
"Is there a bigger change than that, for the first time in this country, a woman becomes president?" Is there a greater inspiration for smart women? There is none.
I think that with me, take my word for it, when I surround myself with women similar to me, women modeled after Vaclav Havel: their own, strong, subversive, who can express a position and defend it, that is a reforming step for me. Siljanovska Davkova said at a press conference in the evening after the elections on May 8.
In the campaign, Siljanovska said that she would not use the adjective "North", but she would stand in front of a sign with the new constitutional name. At the same time, she had also stated that she was against the constitutional amendments to include the Bulgarians in the Constitution, but if the Parliament makes such a decision, she will respect it because the Parliament is a constitutional body. She said that we should respect the fundamental values of our constitutional order, and the Prespa Agreement for her is a politically and legally open issue.
"But in any external relations with countries bigger than us, even with alliances such as the EU, we true Europeans have an obligation to remind the fundamental values, because without them there is neither democracy, nor prosperity, nor peace. You don't go to Europe with EU, NATO, NATO EU rhetoric. No, but by respecting the values and practicing the values only if we become a normal, standard state, we will be within the EU," said Davkova.
Siljanovska Davkova was born on May 11, 1953 in Ohrid. She is a Macedonian university professor, lawyer, and member of parliament for the previous four years.
In her biography it is stated that she completed primary and secondary education in Skopje (1973). She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Skopje (1978), where she obtained her master's degree. She received her doctorate in front of a commission led by prof. Franz Grad with "Cum laude" at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, on the topic "Local Self-government – between Norms and Reality" in 1994.
She was elected as an assistant in the subject political system at the Faculty of Law in Skopje (1989), as an assistant professor in constitutional law and political system (1994), and then as a full professor in 2004. She was a member of the Constitutional Commission of the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia (1990- 1992) and Minister in the Government of the Republic of Moldova (1992-1994). Expert on UN elections and vice president of the group of Independent Experts on Local Self-Government at the Council of Europe. Member of the Venice Commission. He is the author of hundreds of scientific works on constitutional law and the political system.
Siljanovska Davkova entered politics for the first time as a proposal of the LDP and was a minister without portfolio in the first government of Branko Crvenkovski, who was prime minister from 1992 to 1994.
In 2004 and 2005, she was active in protests against the Law on Territorial Organization, in 2017, she was vocal against the Law on the Use of Languages, which made the Albanian language the second official language in Macedonia. In the parliamentary elections in 2020, Siljanovska-Davkova was the holder of the candidate list for deputies of VMRO-DPMNE and the Coalition in the first constituency. Since August 2020, she has been an MP in the Parliament.
