Macedonia appears to have turned the corner on a political crisis that recently saw thugs storm parliament and beat up MPs.
Gjorge Ivanov, its president, gave opposition leader Zoran Zaev the legal mandate to form a coalition government with two ethnic Albanian parties on Wednesday (17 May).
“The obstacles for awarding the mandate for a new Macedonian government have been removed”, Ivanov said on TV.
In return, Zaev, who still had a nasty head wound from last month’s parlia...
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