President of North Macedonia from 2019 to 2024
Stevo Pendarovski
(
Macedonian
:
Стево Пендаровски
,
pronounced
['st?v?
p?n'dar?fski]
; born 3 April 1963) is a Macedonian politician who served as the 5th
President of North Macedonia
from 2019 to 2024.
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Early life and education
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Stevo Pendarovski was born on 3 April 1963 in
Skopje
. His family originates from
Gali?nik
.
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He grew up in
post-earthquake
Skopje. His parents were teachers.
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Pendarovski started his elementary studies at the then-Dositej Obradovikj School in Skopje (current-day Panajot Ginovski School) while he finished his secondary studies at the Cvetan Dimov gymnasium.
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Pendarovski earned a
Bachelor of Laws
degree from
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje
in 1987, later earning his
MA
and
Ph.D.
degrees in
Political Science
from the same university.
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Political career
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As a law graduate, Pendarovski first worked as a trainee in a law office in Skopje, but later left and got a job at the
Ministry of Internal Affairs
, where he worked as a security analyst.
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In 1998, he was appointed head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Analysis and Research Administration and a spokesman for the ministry, in the capacity of Deputy Minister of Public Relations.
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He was a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the country's
2001 armed conflict
.
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In 2001, Pendarovski joined the cabinet of President
Boris Trajkovski
, where he worked as a national security advisor. President Trajkovski and eight other people, including three members of his cabinet, died in a
plane crash
in Bosnia and Herzegovina on 26 February 2004. When the plane crash happened, Pendarovski was in Dublin as a representative of President Trajkovski in the state delegation that was due to submit the country's
application for EU membership
that day, which was subsequently postponed.
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For a short period, from 2004 to 2005, Pendarovski headed the State Election Commission. In 2005, he returned to the presidential cabinet, this time as an advisor to President
Branko Crvenkovski
on national security and later on foreign policy.
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Pendarovski left the presidential cabinet in 2009, when Crvenkovski ended his presidency.
Pendarovski began teaching at the University American College in Skopje in 2008. Some of the areas he has taught and researched are: international relations, intelligence and national security, geopolitics, globalization, US foreign policy, EU foreign and security policy, small states in international relations and others.
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On 4 March 2014, Pendarovski was elected by the main opposition party in Macedonia, the
Social Democratic Union
, as its candidate for the
April 2014 presidential election
.
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Presidency (2019?2024)
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Pendarovski ran in the
2019 election
as a presidential candidate of the
Social Democratic Union
and the
Democratic Union for Integration
.
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He went on to win 436,212 votes in the second round of the presidential election, 51.66% of the votes cast.
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During the
COVID-19 pandemic
, Pendarovski introduced the nation's first ever
state of emergency
to contain the coronavirus, a move that paved the way for a
2020 parliamentary election
.
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In February 2022, Pendarovski was seen walking with Embla Ademi, an 11-year-old girl with
Down syndrome
, to her elementary school in
Gostivar
after he heard she was being bullied.
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Personal life
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Pendarovski is married to
Elizabeta Gjorgievska
, a medical doctor who works at the Clinic for Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry and a professor at the Faculty of Dentistry in
Skopje
. They have one child, named Ognen.
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Honours and awards
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References
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"Pendarovski sworn in as new North Macedonia president"
.
The Republic
. Retrieved
8 November
2022
.
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Abellan Matamoros, Cristina (12 May 2019).
"North Macedonia's new president Stevo Pendarovski takes office"
.
EuroNews
. Retrieved
8 November
2022
.
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"Pendarovski sworn in as new North Macedonia president"
.
Associated Press
. 12 May 2019
. Retrieved
8 November
2022
– via
The Seattle Times
.
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"President Pendarovski attended and addressed the traditional Gali?nik Wedding event"
.
pretsedatel.mk
. 14 July 2019
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
I am honored and pleased to be the patron of this year's Gali?nik Wedding, not only as President, but also as a man who is originally from this village and this region.
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"Стево Пендаровски приватно: Благороден и необично духовит татко"
(in Macedonian). 6 April 2019
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
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Пендаровски: Добивав купови ?убовни писма, ама жена ми знае дека не играм на дупло
[
Pendarovski: I Was Receiving a Ton of Love Letters, But My Wife Knows that I Never Play Double
].
Reporter MK
(in Macedonian). 5 April 2019
. Retrieved
8 November
2022
.
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"President Pendarovski visits first graders in the elementary school "Panajot Ginovski"
"
. Pretsedatel.mk. 3 September 2019
. Retrieved
8 November
2022
.
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a
b
c
"Biography of the president"
.
pretsedatel.mk
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
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Slavica Filipovska (14 May 2019).
"Пендаровски низ очите на соработниците: Несуден адвокат, тврдоглав галичанец, прагматичен политичар"
.
360 stepeni
(in Macedonian)
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
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a
b
Ljubomir Kostovski (4 March 2019).
"Стево Пендаровски: Преку два претседателски кабинета до бирото на шефот на државата со свое име"
.
vistinomer.mk
(in Macedonian)
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
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"Пендаровски: Со ниедна парти?а не сум разговарал за кандидатура за претседател!"
.
faktor.mk
(in Macedonian). 3 March 2019
. Retrieved
3 August
2021
.
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"Pendarovski, official presidential nominee of the Macedonian opposition"
.
Independent Balkan Agency
. 3 May 2014.
Archived
from the original on 29 December 2019
. Retrieved
19 July
2020
.
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"Стево Пендаровски е консензуален претседателски кандидат на СДСМ и ДУИ"
[Stevo Pendarovski is a consensual presidential candidate of SDSM and DUI].
Точка (in Macedonian)
. 1 March 2019.
Archived
from the original on 4 May 2020.
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Matamoros, Cristina Abellan (12 May 2019).
"North Macedonia's new president Stevo Pendarovski takes office"
.
euronews
.
Archived
from the original on 19 July 2020
. Retrieved
19 July
2020
.
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"Биографи?а на новиот претседател Стево Пендаровски"
[Biography of the new President Stevo Pendarovski].
А1он (in Macedonian)
. 12 May 2019.
Archived
from the original on 19 July 2020
. Retrieved
19 July
2020
.
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"North Macedonia lifts state of emergency, paving way for election"
.
Reuters
. 12 June 2020.
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Goodwin, Allegra (12 February 2022).
"An 11-year-old girl with Down syndrome was being bullied. So her country's president walked her to school"
.
CTVNews
. Retrieved
6 April
2022
.
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Allegra Goodwin (11 February 2022).
"North Macedonia President walks bullied 11-year-old girl to school"
.
CNN
. Retrieved
6 April
2022
.
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"Добрината е единственото што останува по нас: Интерв?у со Елизабета ?оргиевска, сопруга на Претседателот Стево Пендаровски"
[Goodness is the only thing left after us: Interview with Elizabeta Gjorgievska, wife of President Stevo Pendarovski].
Женски Магазин (in Macedonian)
.
Archived
from the original on 19 July 2020
. Retrieved
19 July
2020
.
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"President Pendarovski in Warsaw awarded with the Order of the White Eagle, President Duda with the "September 8" Order"
.
pretsedatel.mk
. 24 October 2022
. Retrieved
21 March
2023
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