The European Union has encouraged the political factors in North Macedonia to work on creating a Parliament and a stable government, which will advance the path of European integration of Skopje.

This is what the EU’s high representative for foreign policy and security, Josep Borrell, and the commissioner for neighborhood and enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, said through a joint statement regarding the parliamentary and presidential elections that were held in North Macedonia on May 8.

The two senior European officials said that the parliamentary and presidential elections took place in a peaceful and democratic atmosphere, in which fundamental freedoms were respected, although, according to Borrell and Varhely, there remained some processes that have not yet been properly regulated.

The parliamentary elections were won by VMRO DPMNE, which until now has been in the opposition, while the presidential ones were won by the candidate of the same party, Gordana Silanovska-Davkova.

“The EU congratulates President Silanovska-Davkova on her election and is happy to cooperate with the new president, the first woman as head of state in North Macedonia”, the communique said.