{"id":22977,"date":"2021-10-18T12:36:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=22977"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T10:37:18","slug":"macedonian-ruling-and-opposition-parties-claim-victory-but-official-results-have-yet-to-be-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/macedonian-ruling-and-opposition-parties-claim-victory-but-official-results-have-yet-to-be-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling and opposition parties claim victory but official results have yet to be announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results of the Macedonian local elections aren\u2019t in yet but the opposition parties led by VMRO-DPMNE claimed victory last night, even though official results have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Macedonian citizens headed to the polls yesterday to elect the new mayors of the country\u2019s 80 communes, as well as the mayor of Skopje, which is a separate municipal division. Citizens also cast their ballots for the new municipal councils.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the computer-generated data processed so far, the National Elections Commission has declared the victory of opposition parties but they have yet to announce an official result.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, representatives of LSDM have said that the battle is still underway, bringing to the attention the second round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Albanian parties have also given their separate statements regarding the electoral process. 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Macedonian citizens headed to the polls yesterday to elect the new mayors of the country\u2019s 80 communes, as well as the mayor of Skopje, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":22978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[151],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ruling and opposition parties claim victory but official results have yet to be announced - Euronews Albania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/macedonian-ruling-and-opposition-parties-claim-victory-but-official-results-have-yet-to-be-announced\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruling and opposition parties claim victory but official results have yet to be announced - Euronews Albania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Results of the Macedonian local elections aren\u2019t in yet but the opposition parties led by VMRO-DPMNE claimed victory last night, even though official results have yet to be announced. 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