North Macedonia’s president on Thursday formally asked center-right leader Hristijan Mickoski to form a new government following his victory in last month's parliamentary elections.
A coalition led by Mickoski's VMRO-DPMNE party won just over 43% of the vote in t he May 8 elections, gaining 58 of parliament's 120 seats, three short of the number needed to govern alone.
In a presidential runoff held the same day, the VMRO-DPMNE-backed candidate, 70-year-old law professor Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, became the first woman to be elected as the country's head of state.
