The parliament in North Macedonia on Sunday elected the leader of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party Hristijan Mickoski as the new prime minister. Seventy-seven lawmakers in the 120-seat house voted in favour of the new government, and 22 voted against. The remaining 21 lawmakers were absent. The right-wing opposition in North Macedonia convincingly won parliamentary and presidential elections in May. Mickoski’s VMRO-DPMNE formed a coalition with the Albanian alliance VLEN and liberal ZNAM to govern. The coalition replaced the pro-European and pro-Western Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). …