site.btaVMRO-DPMNE and Hristijan Mickoski Lead Convincingly in a Survey

Some 40.5% of citizens believe that the Republic of North Macedonia is heading in the wrong direction, while 34.3% believe it is heading in the right direction, according to data from a poll on the Mkd.mk website, part of regular surveys conducted by the editorial team in collaboration with the Market Vision agency. The survey, conducted from June 20 to July 4, also shows that VMRO-DPMNE and its chairman and prime minister of the country, Hristijan Mickoski, have a convincing lead over the other political parties in the country on the eve of the local elections in the autumn.

Mickoski enjoys the highest level of trust among the citizens of North Macedonia, with 26.9% of those who participated in the poll, followed by the leader of the largest Albanian party in the country, DUI, Ali Ahmeti, with 6%, and third with 4.7% approval is the leader of the opposition SDSM, Venko Filipce.  The leaders of the Znam movement, Maksim Dimitrievski, and the opposition The Left, Dimitar Apasiev, each have 3% trust, while the leaders of the parties in the VLEN coalition, a coalition partner of VMRO-DPMNE - Izet Mexhiti and Bilal Kasami, enjoy nearly 2% trust, while Parliament Speaker and VLEN coalition member Afrim Gashi, enjoys 1% approval. 

With 23.8% of the votes of those surveyed, VMRO-DPMNE is the leading political party; 5.5% of respondents say they would vote for DUI before the local elections in the autumn, 5.1% for SDSM, and just over 1% would vote for the parties of the VLEN coalition, which are measured separately, but their combined result was slightly below that of their opponent, the DUI, which analysts attribute to the departure from the coalition of Arben Taravari and his wing of the Alliance for Albanians, which only achieved a result of 1.6%. 

The survey was conducted by telephone on a sample of 1,200 respondents and is representative of North Macedonia, according to data from the latest census in 2021.

The SDSM described the survey as “fabricated in the party laboratory” of the VMRO-DPMNE.

“The Market Vision survey is part of the campaign with which Mickoski is trying to cover up his incompetence and lack of any vision. It was Market Vision that signed a contract with the government in March 2025 for a record sum of EUR 400,000 to conduct surveys and measure public opinion on the government's work. Should anyone believe these surveys, which serve only to manipulate the public and are a tool of VMRO-DPMNE propaganda? No matter how hard they try to create a false image of support, the truth is obvious: citizens see chaos, inaction, scandals, incompetence, waste, crime and corruption at the top of the government every day. While the people struggle with fires, inflation, low wages, dysfunctional institutions and daily murders on the streets, Mickoski is engaged in commissioned studies and political self-promotion,” the SDSM statement said.