Hristijan Mickoski was re-elected as the leader of the biggest opposition party, VMRO-DPMNE, with 489 votes in favour and three invalid ballots. At the same time, SDSM, the country’s biggest governing party from which former prime minister Zoran Zaev resigned, held elections to pick their new leader and expected prime minister. The vote in SDSM comes after Zaev resigned after he was defeated in the runoff elections of 31 October, and mainly because VMRO-DPMNE won in the capital, Skopje. SDSM elected a leader on the formula “one member, one vote” and over 60,000 party members were eligible to vote for a new party leader, expected new Prime Minister. As expected, the candidate that Zaev endorsed, Deputy Finance Minister Dimitar Kovačevski, won with almost 80% of the votes.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 13, 2021 06:28 UTC