VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski has reasons to be content with the outcome of the early parliamentary elections in which he won his third successive mandate. Macedonia will again have a right-wing government that will not be of the kind of the Italian governments though, that is to say, made up of a few parties of the Macedonian and Albanian political campus, as the political and expert circles speculated.

Gruevski did not win the desired 62 parliamentary seats but he polled nearly 440,000 votes (according to the preliminary results) and won 56 seats (53 plus three from the diaspora), which makes it possible for him to receive the mandate for composing the new government without any major problems, Utrinski vesnik reports.

The government cabinet will again include BDI as a coalition partner. With their 15 MPs, which confirmed their domination in the Albanian campus, BDI has reasons to feel content as well. However, the new governing coalition of VMRO-DPMNE and BDI will not be as powerful as in the previous Parliament when it controlled both a two-thirds majority and a Badinter. We are yet to see whether Ahmeti loses the feeling of ease that he had in his partnership with VMRO-DPMNE, as he used to say at the rallies.