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North Macedonia's pro-Western candidate set to win presidential vote-early results show
Source: Reuters
WORLD NEWS MAY 4, 2019 / 7:03 PM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
North Macedonia's pro-Western candidate set to win presidential vote-early results show
Ivana Sekularac, Kole Casule
4 MIN READ
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Early results from North Macedonia’s presidential election on Sunday showed pro-Western candidate Stevo Pendarovski on course for victory after a campaign dominated by divisions over a change to the country’s name that was agreed to mollify Greece and open the way for EU and NATO membership.
The State Election Commission results based on 66.4 percent the votes counted showed 53.8 percent of the votes going to Pendarovski, who is the candidate of the ruling coalition and a long-serving senior civil servant and academic.
His rival, the candidate of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, got 42.7 percent of the votes.
The two finished neck-and-neck in the first round of voting two weeks ago. In Sunday’s run-off, Pendarovski had been expected to win support from voters of the second largest ethnic Albanian party, whose candidate Blerim Reka came third in the first round.
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North Macedonia's pro-Western candidate set to win presidential vote-early results show
Ivana Sekularac, Kole Casule
4 MIN READ
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Early results from North Macedonia’s presidential election on Sunday showed pro-Western candidate Stevo Pendarovski on course for victory after a campaign dominated by divisions over a change to the country’s name that was agreed to mollify Greece and open the way for EU and NATO membership.
The State Election Commission results based on 66.4 percent the votes counted showed 53.8 percent of the votes going to Pendarovski, who is the candidate of the ruling coalition and a long-serving senior civil servant and academic.
His rival, the candidate of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, got 42.7 percent of the votes.
The two finished neck-and-neck in the first round of voting two weeks ago. In Sunday’s run-off, Pendarovski had been expected to win support from voters of the second largest ethnic Albanian party, whose candidate Blerim Reka came third in the first round.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-macedonia-election/north-macedonias-pro-western-candidate-set-to-win-presidential-vote-early-results-show-idUSKCN1SA0SO