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Premier concedes defeat

Skopje (Macedonia): Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski conceded defeat on Thursday to the nationalist Opposition in Macedonia's parliamentary elections, a vote considered crucial for the tiny Balkan nation's aspirations to join the European Union and NATO. With 36 per cent of the ballots counted, Nikola Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party had 33 per cent of the vote, while Mr. Buckovski's ruling Social Democrats had 24 per cent, according to preliminary results released by the State Electoral Commission. ``I called Nikola Gruevski to congratulate him with his election victory,'' Mr. Buckovski told his supporters in a televised speech just after midnight. — AP

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