Macedonia's nationalists, Social Democrats, almost tied in parliamentary vote

[WorldNews]

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By Ivana Sekularac and Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's nationalist VMRO-DPMNE and opposition Social Democrats were virtually tied in a Sunday election aimed at ending a two-year-long crisis that brought down the previous government, state election commission preliminary results showed. The center-right VMRO-DPMNE of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski won 37.96 percent of the vote, while the Social Democrats, or SDSM, of Zoran Zaev won 36.65 percent, the commission showed on its website.

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