More than 30 people, mostly opposition supporters, were killed last year in the campaign.

Opposition supporters claim that similar attacks by the security forces are taking place today.

A campaign march by hundreds of opposition supporters turned violent today.

Since this year's celebration happens to fall on a Saturday, potential opposition supporters will not be at work.

Opposition supporters, for their part, feel crippled by such attitudes.

Others fear that opposition supporters will take to the streets if their leader loses.

At least 40 people, most of them opposition supporters, were killed in early November during clashes with the police.

"You are going to see violence," the opposition supporters sang in a warning to the government.

Village leaders warned that opposition supporters could lose their homes.

Opposition supporters in Skopje put that figure at 350,000, but the government says there are only between 4,000 and 40,000.