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The right-wing opposition in North Macedonia convincingly won parliamentary and presidential elections on Wednesday. With nearly all votes counted, the right-wing nationalist VMRO-DPMNE received 43.2% of the vote and will have 59 seats in the 120-seat parliament, said the state election commission in Skopje. The right-wing party will replace the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), which has been in power since 2017. The SDSM, led by former prime minister Dimitar Kovačevski who was in office until the beginning of the year, won just 15.3% of the vote. The party’s support plummeted dram…

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