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Ruling party, opposition both claim victory in Macedonia polls

by Jasmina Mironski and Rachel O’Brien Agence France Presse SKOPJE, Macedonnia (AFP) — Macedonia’s ruling conservative party and the opposition Social Democrats both claimed victory in snap elections held Sunday in the hope of solving a two-year long deep political crisis. “We won once again. Tonight, today on December 11, the 10th victory in a row,” Vlatko Gjorcev, a senior official of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski’s VMRO-DPMNE told supporters at the party’s headquarters. However, […]