FLASH
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According to these results, the new president will be elected in the second round of elections, where the two candidates with the most votes will go.
The ruling party in North Macedonia has received a blow in the first phase of the presidential elections.
According to the first results published by the State Election Commission, the candidate of the opposition party, VMRO DPMNE, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, is convincingly leading in the race for the first of the state.
According to the published results from 59 percent of the polling stations, Silanovska-Davkova won 197,741 votes or 37.80%. She was VMRO's candidate for president in the 2019 elections.
The candidate for president of the coalition for the European Future, the current president of North Macedonia, Stevo Pandarovski, received 97,592 or 18.66% of the votes.
According to these results, the new president will be elected in the second round of elections, where the two candidates with the most votes will go. This is because in the first round it is required that the president be elected with 50 percent of the votes, with the condition that the participation in the election is over 40 percent of the electorate.
Seven candidates competed in the race for the head of state.
The European Front, under the leadership of the Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) competed with Bujar Osmani, the current Minister of Foreign Affairs. According to the first results, he is third with 81,748 votes or 15.63% of the votes won.
The united Albanian opposition, which makes up the VLEN coalition, took part in the elections with Arben Taravar, the current mayor of Gostivar municipality. He secured 59,591 or 11.39% of the votes.
Maksim Dimitrievski, the mayor of the municipality of Kumanova, Stevçe Jakimovski, the mayor of the Karposh district in Skopje, and Biljana Vankovska, candidate of the "Left" party, were also part of the election race. Of these candidates, Dimitrievski received the most votes, namely 42,296 votes or 8.09%.
Clash between Albanian parties
But this race also brought rivalry between the Albanian parties. As always, the parties never came together in Skopje.
DUI candidate Bujar Osmani in his first appearance declared that his victory against the VLEN candidate is very deep, according to him somewhere over 40 thousand votes. Osmani also counted the municipalities in which he scored victories, including Tetova, Gostivar and Çairi.
" We scored victories in every municipality of the country. Jegunovce, Haračine, Vrapčishte, Studeničane, Likovë, Bogovinje, Zhelina, Gazi Babë, Bërvenica, Dollnen, Resnje, Struga, Çaška, Zelenikovë, Ohrid and victories in Tetovo, Saraj, Manastir, Çuçer Sandevo, Veles, Kičevo, Karposh, victories in Gostivar, Krushëvë, Kumanovo... in Çair, Kendra, Dibër everywhere in the Republic, a profound victory of the European Front ", declared Osmani.
Earlier DUI sympathizers provoked VLEN representatives, who left their offices in Skenderbej Square and moved to the offices of the Democratic Movement.
Calls from DUI sympathizers were for VLEN representatives to close the doors and go home.
Çairi was freed, European Macedonia won. With all those obstructions, with all those coalitions to destroy KLA, DUI and Ali Ahmeti, the voters decided for DUI and Ali Ahmeti, this victory will be doubled on May 8. This victory will be a guarantee for European Macedonia. We are at our square, this square was built by Ali Ahmeti and the UÇK. And this is not a provocation ", said Artan Grubi.
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