In first round, 45 mayors were elected, 35 go to second round

Forty-five mayors won the first round of local elections held yesterday in Macedonia, while 35 will go to the second round on 29 October.

In the first round were mayors of the municipalities in Aerodrom, Harachine, Berovo, Manastir, Bogdanc, Bosillo, Vallandovo, Vasilev, Vevcan, Veles, Gevgeli, Gjorce Petrov, Delcheva, Demir Hisar, Dojran, Zelenovo, Ilinovo, Karpove, Kocevo, Kocan, Creto, Kriva Palka, Krivoshta, Crushevo, Crushovo, Covovo, Mavorove, Mavrovesevo, Sevo-Rokto, Sevo, Sevorechövjet, Shevèrecèrechherce, Pèreca, Pèce, Crecèrcherce, Crechherce, Stoperca, Srpezpurce, Srpezpur, Spencher, Spencher, Spencherca, Spur, Spence, Spence, Spencher, Spencher, Spence, Spence, Spence, Spence, Spencher, Spen

The second round will be in Bogovinje, Brvenice, Bultel, Vignica, Vrarchish, Gazi Baba, Gostivar, Gradko, Demir Kapi, Probistip, Rosoman, Doline, Zhelen, Zernovac, Yegunoc, Kavadar, Karbinci, Kisela, Likov, Makedonska Kamcea, Makedon Brodski, Mogill, Novaci, Saraj, Stargor Nagor, Strucana, Tecana, Tetovoan, Tekka, Tetovo, Chiskore, Chiskore, Cheskorek, Cachela and Shke Ori.

The LSDM in the first round won 37 mayors, V MRO- DPMNE 3, DUI 2 and Democratic Turkish Party 1.

The LSDM and VMRO will compete in the second round in 19 municipalities, DUI and the Alliance for Albanians will compete at 5, DUI and the EUSA in 7, in 1 DUI-LSDM municipality, 1 LSDM and the Roma League, and in 1 DPA and the EUSA.

Still unknown is whether the mayor of the City of Skopje will move to the first round. LSDM candidate Petre Shilegov after 96.79 percent of votes counted so far leads against VMRO-based candidate DPMNE, Koce Trajanovski with 50.27 just 36.01 per cent of the vote. The 22 polling votes remain to be counted and will then be known whether Skopje will win mayor in the first round or have a second round on 29 October.