North Macedonia on knife-edge as indecisive election goes to runoff
Presidential polls have thrown North Macedonia into political uncertainty with the Balkan state on a knife-edge after an inconclusive election dominated by deep divisions over a controversial name-change deal with Greece. With record low turn-out preventing any candidate winning outright in a first round on Sunday, the showdown between pro-EU and nationalist forces intensified as frontrunners Stevo Pendarovski and Gordana Siljanovska turned to courting ethnic Albanian voters ahead of a run-off on 5 May. Читать дальше...