SKOPJE, April 29 (Hina) - Macedonia's Prime Minister and Social Democratic Alliance leader Branko Crvenkovski won a runoff presidential election on Wednesday, polling 62.66 per cent of the votes. His rival, VMRO-DPMNE candidate Sasko
Kedev, won 37.34 per cent, according to initial results released by the Central Electoral Commission early Thursday morning.
SKOPJE, April 29 (Hina) - Macedonia's Prime Minister and Social
Democratic Alliance leader Branko Crvenkovski won a runoff
presidential election on Wednesday, polling 62.66 per cent of the
votes. His rival, VMRO-DPMNE candidate Sasko Kedev, won 37.34 per
cent, according to initial results released by the Central Electoral
Commission early Thursday morning.#L#
Voter turnout was 53.39 per cent, just above the minimum 50 per cent
required for an election to be valid.
News agencies reported that the results were released after 99 per
cent of the ballots had been counted.
The VMRO-DPMNE election team claimed that the election was a failure
and rigged because according to their results only 47 per cent of the
electorate turned out for the vote.
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