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World in brief: May 9, 2024
Hristijan Mickoski, the leader of the opposition conservative VMRO-DPMNE party (centre top) and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska Davkova (centre bottom) attend a celebration on the main square after their party announced victory in the presidential and parliamentary elections, in Skopje, North Macedonia, May 9, 2024

NORTH MACEDONIA: The conservative coalition that emerged victorious in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections was left searching for a governing partner today, having fallen three short of a parliamentary majority.

The Your Macedonia coalition, led by VMRO-DPMNE party chief Hristijan Mickoski, won just over 43 per cent of the votes, giving it 58 of the country’s 120 parliamentary seats.

Conservative Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova became the country’s first elected female president.

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