VMRO-DPMNE’s Central Committee will hold a session at which the decision for holding an extraordinary party congress on the 23rd of December in Valandovo is supposed to be confirmed. At this Congress, the announced resignation of the party leader Nikola Gruevski should be accepted and a new leader will be elected.
The general public speculates about potentional candidacies of Hristijan Mickoski, Ilija Dimovski, Filip Petrovski, Nikola Poposki, Antonio Miloshoski, Nikola Todorov and Vlatko Gjorchev.
The presidential candidate will have to nominated by 30 delegates at the Congress. He will be elected if he is voted by half of the 560 delegates that remain the same as the regular congress that was organized in 2015 in Kumanovo.