Pro-Western candidate Pendarovski wins around 54 percent of the votes in Macedonia’s presidential election results based on 66 percent of votes counted
Ruling Social Democratic Union of Macedonia's candidate Stevo Pendarovski and his wife Elizabeta Georgievska cast their ballots during the presidential election in Skopje, North Macedonia, May 5, 2019.
"Stevo Pendarovski is leading and we expect him to win," ruling party official Aleksandar Kiracovski said after the polls closed, citing initial results from the party's own polling. Official electoral commission figures showed 44.5 percent of the electorate had voted 30 minutes before polls closed, ending fears that the election could fail to clear a required turnout threshold of 40 percent.The contenders finished in a near dead-heat in the first round last month, reflecting the split over the government's decision to change the country's name to North Macedonia and thus end a long-running row with Greece.
Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, a top architect of the deal, has said he would call an early general elections if Siljanovska Davkova wins. He did not publicly back either of the two frontrunners by name, but he has urged Albanians to vote for the "pro-Western agenda", which Pendarovski espouses.
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