The candidate of the largest opposition party, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova of the nationalist VMRO-DPMNE, won the first round of the presidential election in North Macedonia but will face incumbent Stevo Pendarovski in a runoff in May. The 70-year-old law professor received 40.1% of the vote after almost all of the polling stations had been counted, the state election commission said on Thursday morning in Skopje. Pendarovski, 61, who is supported by the ruling Social Democrats (SDMS), trailed Siljanovska-Davkova with 19.9% of the vote. The president in North Macedonia primarily has protocol p…