Macedonia's ruling party wins snap poll, falls short of majority

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's conservative VMRO
party have won a snap parliamentary election, falling short of a
majority, the state election commission said Monday, according to dpa.
The VMRO won 61 seats in the 123-strong parliament, one seat short of
a majority, according to the commission's projections.
The opposition Social Democrats won 34 seats.
VMRO candidate Gorge Ivanov won a second term as president,
defeating SDSM-backed Stevo Pendarovski in a run-off also held on
Sunday.