{"id":91685,"date":"2019-05-06T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/06\/our-ticket-to-europe-north-macedonia-elects-pro-western-president\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T23:50:00","slug":"our-ticket-to-europe-north-macedonia-elects-pro-western-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=91685","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Our ticket to Europe&#039;: North Macedonia elects pro-western president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stevo Pendarovski wins vote focused on changing country\u2019s name change, consolidating push towards EU and Nato membershipNorth Macedonia\u2019s pro-western candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, won a run-off presidential vote after a campaign dominated by divisions over a change to the country\u2019s name that was agreed to mollify Greece and open the way for EU and Nato membership.The State Election Commission results based on 99.5% the votes counted showed 51.7% of the votes going to Pendarovski, who is the candidate of the ruling coalition and a long-serving senior civil servant and academic. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/06\/north-macedonia-elects-pro-western-president\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Our ticket to Europe&#039;: North Macedonia elects pro-western president<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevo Pendarovski wins vote focused on changing country\u2019s name change, consolidating push towards EU and Nato membershipNorth Macedonia\u2019s pro-western candidate, Stevo Pendarovski, won a run-off presidential vote after a campaign dominated by divisions over a change to the country\u2019s name that was agreed to mollify Greece and open the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}