Macedonia paves way for snap election

MACEDONIAN legislators unanimously voted to dissolve parliament on Wednesday, paving the way for early elections slated for late April.

Some 118 lawmakers voted in favour of the dissolution, while five others abstained. No-one voted against the move.

The news comes after the multi-ethnic ruling coalition of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's centre-right VMRO-DPMNE party and the Democratic Union for Integration failed to agree on a presidential candidate for a poll set to take place on April 13.

Gruevski said over the weekend that a snap poll - which comes one year ahead of the regular election date - would be held on April 27 to coincide with the second round of the presidential vote.

Macedonia is troubled by recurrent ethnic tensions between the majority Macedonians and ethnic Albanians, who make up less than a third of the population.

In spite of UN-led negotiations, Macedonia and neighbouring Greece are embroiled in a protracted name dispute that emerged in 1991. The dispute has scuppered Macedonia's entry to NATO and its application to join the European Union.

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