Albanian
Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) will be joined by the
The vote is being held a year ahead of schedule after the ruling conservative VMRO-DPMNE party failed to agree with its Albanian coalition partner, the
Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), on a joint presidential candidate, RT reported.
Macedonia's early parliamentary elections were won by the ruling party VMRO-DPMNE of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who will continue to head the country's Cabinet in a coalition with the ethnic Albanian
Democratic Union for Integration. While the opposition Social-Democratic Union for Macedonia made important gains, it failed to beat the ruling center-right party.
Gordon also had separate meetings with the leaders of the
Democratic Union for Integration (BDI) and the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM).
On December 17, 2004, former Defense Minister Vlado Buckovski was confirmed by parliament as Prime Minister, maintaining the coalition with the ethnic Albanian
Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) and the Liberal-Democratic (LDP) parties.
The revote is expected to determine which of the two ethnic Albanian parties (the
Democratic Union for Integration and the Democratic Party of Albanians) will join the ruling coalition to be led by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party.