Macedonia conservatives headed to slim electoral victory
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Nearly complete results in Macedonia’s early general elections show the country’s conservative coalition in a slim victory over its Social Democratic rivals, but with neither party winning enough parliamentary seats to form a government. Both sides have claimed victory.
The election was called as part of a Western-brokered deal to defuse a deep two-year political crisis sparked by a massive wiretapping scandal, in which the left-wing opposition had blamed the conservative prime minister for an illegal wiretapping operation targeting more than 20,000 people.