The inauguration of the first female president in North Macedonia

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, publication ” D Site wrote in an article: According to the first results announced in the recent parliamentary and presidential elections, the right-wing opposition has clearly won the parliamentary and presidential elections in North Macedonia.

In the second round of the presidential election, 70-year-old lawyer Gordana Siljanovska-Daukova won 65 percent of the vote after more than half of the votes were counted on Wednesday, clearly ahead of her rival Stavo Pendarovsky, who won 29 percent. In this way, Silyanovska-Davkova is the first woman to lead this country. “I asked myself what I did to deserve this honor,” Silianovska-Daukova said shortly after the election. “This honor is precious to me, it is a great responsibility.” For Macedonian national unity VMRO-DPMNE won about 43% of the votes and will have 59 seats out of 120 in the parliament. Thus, the right in this country replaces the social democratic SDSM, which has been in power since 2017. In this way, with almost half of the seats in the new parliament, they are in a comfortable position to choose their coalition partner.

The ruling Social Democrats with Only 15.1 percent of the votes and 19 seats suffered a bitter defeat. Compared to the parliamentary elections four years ago, they lost more than half of their voters and suffered a bitter defeat in this election. “I congratulate my political rival VMRO-DPMNE on this victory in the elections,” said Dimitar Kwachevsky, former president and leader of the SDSM party.

After the announcement of these results In the streets of Skopje, the capital of this country, supporters of the opposition celebrated this victory until late at night with car parades, honking horns and fireworks. During the election campaign, the right wing in this country took advantage of the disillusionment of a large part of the population with the ruling Social Democrats. Many people complain that government institutions are increasingly unable to perform their duties, and that poor management, nepotism, and corruption are rampant. The economic situation is bad, the government’s coffers are empty, while mass immigration leads to a dramatic decrease in the population and the loss of qualified workers.

VMRO leader shortly before From midnight, he shouted in front of the party supporters in the party headquarters in Skopje: “Macedonia won!” This is a historic victory for the Macedonian people!” “The government has fallen and there is a reason for it: corruption, crime, incompetence, nepotism of the hijacked government that disappointed the people.”

VMRO before It had launched a nationalist tone during the election campaign and had announced a confrontational course against neighboring Greece and Bulgaria, an approach that could significantly hinder EU accession talks with North Macedonia. Both EU countries have the right of veto at any stage of these negotiations. His country’s new name was changed from Macedonia to North Macedonia in 2018, after years of disagreement with Greece. Mykoski also gave in in a conflict with Bulgaria over the recognition of the Bulgarian minority in the Macedonian constitution It hasn’t.

North Macedonia has been a candidate for EU membership since 2005. For years, neighboring Greece prevented the country from joining due to a name dispute . After resolving the dispute in 2018, Bulgaria has now blocked the accession process. This country wants to change the constitution of North Macedonia and recognize the Bulgarian minority in this country. While the government agreed to this, VMRO-DPMNE has spoken of “surrendering to Bulgarian dictates”.

The presidency in North Macedonia is largely It is ceremonial. In this election, Pendarovsky was supported by the ruling center-left coalition and Silianovska-Daukova by the center-right opposition. Pendarovski and Siljanovska Davkova had previously faced each other in the 2019 elections, which Pendarovski won by a narrow margin. He prevented the civil war in North Macedonia and promised to speed up the country’s membership in the European Union and NATO.

The European Union is partially due to friction with its neighbors, especially Greece and Bulgaria, both of which are members of the European Union. It is said to be effective in the slowness of North Macedonia’s accession to the European Union; Instead, this country finally became a member of NATO in 2020.

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