Former Prime Minister of Macedonia Nikola Gruevski whose center-right
VMRO-DPMNE party declared victory in a parliamentary election has no
right to form a new government, because the final results will show the
opposition had won the vote, Zoran Zaev, leader of the opposition Social
Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) said Tuesday.
Supporters of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party and Prime Minister Nikola
Gruevski
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BELGRADE (Sputnik) —
On Monday, the Macedonian State Election Commission
announced preliminary results of the snap election held on Sunday.
Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE won 51 seats while SDSM got 49. The other 23
mandates were won by various parties of Albanian minorities. Gruevski
already announced his party's victory but the opposition refused to
accept the results.
"The final results that we have show differences between the protocols
from polling stations and what was declared by SEC. If we take this into
account, SDSM gets more support in the Sixth district, and the final
result is 50 to 50," Zaev said at a press conference broadcast by
several local TV channels.
Zaev called on all the parties excluding VMRO-DPMNE to show respect for
the choice of the people and choose "changes over the defeated regime."
He emphasized that the people opted for "life in which there is no place
for such politicians as Nikola Gruevski.
That is why he has no right to
form a new government".
The parliamentary elections in Macedonia took place on Sunday, December
11. The final results are to be declared later on Tuesday.
The political crisis in Macedonia began in 2015 as the opposition
accused the ruling conservatives of intercepting telephone conversations
of some 20,000 people, including police officers, judges, journalists
and diplomats. It resulted in the agreement reached last year between
the most influential parties in Macedonia, under which then-Prime
Minster Gruevski resigned in January, the parliament was dissolved.
Early elections were repeatedly announced and then canceled.
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