10 Facts About Stevo Pendarovski

Stevo Pendarovski is a Macedonian politician who serves as the 5th and current President of North Macedonia since 12 May 2019.

Stevo Pendarovski was born on 3 April 1963 in Skopje.

Stevo Pendarovski was a spokesman for the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the country's 2001 armed conflict.

In 2001, Stevo Pendarovski joined the cabinet of President Boris Trajkovski, where he worked as a national security advisor.

Stevo Pendarovski left the presidential cabinet in 2009, when Crvenkovski ended his presidency.

Stevo Pendarovski began teaching at the University American College in Skopje in 2008.

On 4 March 2014, Stevo Pendarovski was elected by the main opposition party Social Democratic Union of Macedonia as its candidate for the April 2014 presidential election.

Stevo Pendarovski ran in the 2019 election as a presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia and the Democratic Union for Integration.

In February 2022, Stevo 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.

Stevo 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.