{"id":4356,"date":"2017-10-16T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2017-10-16T08:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:59:28","slug":"macedonias-ruling-party-celebrates-local-election-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/macedonias-ruling-party-celebrates-local-election-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Macedonia&#8217;s Ruling Party Celebrates Local Election Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zaev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zaev.jpg 640w, https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/zaev-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skopje &#8211; Macedonia&#8217;s ruling Social Democrats, SDSM, celebrated a convincing victory Sunday night during the first round of local elections, widely regarded as a key test of the new government\u2019s popularity.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>SDSM, which formed a government in May, won leads in more than half of Macedonia&#8217;s 81 municipalities, taking most of the big urban centres. Its crowning victory was winning the capital Skopje \u2013 the main prize in the local elections.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party celebrated decisive victories over its main opposition \u2013 the right-wing VMRO-DPMNE party \u2013 during the first round of the local vote in major towns such as Bitola, Veles, Kumanovo, Ohrid and Strumica. However, it also won decisively in most of the smaller towns and rural areas too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skopje &#8211; Macedonia&#8217;s ruling Social Democrats, SDSM, celebrated a convincing victory Sunday night during the first round of local elections, widely regarded as a key test of the new government\u2019s popularity. SDSM, which formed a government in May, won leads in more than half of Macedonia&#8217;s 81 municipalities, taking most of the big urban centres. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[666,237,690],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkans","tag-brief","tag-macedonia","tag-zaev"],"views":901,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}