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North Macedonia government wins confidence vote
By KONSTANTIN TESTORIDESAugust 30, 2020 GMT
SKOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) North Macedonia’s parliament approved a new left-wing coalition government late on Sunday.
The Social Democrat-led government is to eventually be headed by the country’s first ethnic Albanian prime minister, according to its coalition agreement.
After two days of heated debate, lawmakers voted 62-51 in favor of the new government led by Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev, 46. Seven members were absent.
Zaev and his coalition partners won 62 of the Parliament’s 120 seats in the July election.
Zaev, who led the previous government from 2017 to 2020, formed a more streamlined Cabinet with 19 members, seven fewer than before. Nine ministers either kept their positions or were moved to new ones. Seven posts went to ethnic Albanians.