Zoran Zaev becomes Prime Minister of Macedonia
On 31 May 2017 Macedonia's parliament elected SDSM leader Zoran Zaev prime minister, ending Nikola Gruevski's party's decade in power.
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On 31 May 2017 Macedonia's parliament elected SDSM leader Zoran Zaev prime minister, ending Nikola Gruevski's party's decade in power. Lawmakers backed his 26-member government by 62 votes to 44 with five abstentions, ending a political crisis that had lasted almost three years.
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Zoran Zaev
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- 1.voanews.com — sourcevoanews.com · verified
- 2.slobodnaevropa.mk — sourceslobodnaevropa.mk · verified
- 3.theguardian.comchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: zaev+prime minister · verified
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Factrail. (2026). Zoran Zaev becomes Prime Minister of Macedonia. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/zaev-becomes-pm-2017-05-31
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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