Prime Minister Zoran Zaev announced his resignation late Sunday following the heavy defeat of his governing Social Democratic Union in North Macedonia's local elections. "The responsibility for this outcome is mine and I'm resigning as prime minister and as leader of the Social Democratic Union," Zaev said at a news conference at party headquarters. Zaev came out against early national elections. Although official results were not yet in from the local elections, Zaev conceded defeat in the most important contest — the mayor's race in the capital, Skopje, with incumbent Petre Shilegov losing to center-right challenger Danela Arsovska. At the last municipal elections, in 2017, the Social Democrats won 57 contests and VMRO-DPMNE only five.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 01, 2021 00:26 UTC