Macedonia's governing coalition led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has widened its lead after two rounds of elections, electoral officials said on Sunday.
Zoran Tanevski, spokesman of Macedonia's State Electoral Commission, said that Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE has won a landslide 50.42 percent of the votes with 97 percent of the votes counted.
The main opposition the Social Democrats has gained 24.43 percent of the votes, while the ethnic Albanian minority DUI party came third with 11.5 percent and its bitter rival DPA received 7.6percent.
Macedonia held a partial poll re-run at 187 polling stations marred by irregularities and violence during June 1 general election.
The re-voting wrapped up peacefully on Sunday without repeat of violence that had happened two weeks ago.
More than 160,000 people are entitled to vote at the affected stations, mostly in ethnic Albanian-populated areas.
No serious incidents have been reported in the re-run. Still, police said three people from a village in Tetovo region were arrested after trying to put 10 ballot papers each into ballot boxes.
"Macedonia can organize peaceful elections, but apparently it did not have political will on June 1st," Ervan Fuere, head of EU mission in Macedonia said after visiting some polling stations.
The June 1 poll was marred by irregularities and violence, leaving one man shot dead and eight others wounded in separate incidents.
Source:Xinhua
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