The coalition of North Macedonia’s Social-democrats SDSM ‘We Can,’ led by former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, won the majority of votes in the country’s parliamentary elections and would have 46 out of 120 parliament’s seats, according to final but still unofficial results from the Electoral Commission (DIK), the Beta news agency reported late on Thursday.

The runner-up was the nationalist VMRO DPMNE with 44 mandates.

The local Albanian parties won a total of 28 seats in the country’s parliament, and for the first time, the Leftists secured two mandates.

 The results prompted speculations that the country might have an Albanian prime minister for the first time since Skopje would have to form a coalition government.

The DIK head Oliver Derkoski said that after those unofficial final results were published, the appeals could be filed in the next 48 hours, while that the Commission had 72 hours to rule on them.

North Macedonia held three-day early elections due to the pandemic.

The vote was called after Zaev resigned, in a protest of the European Union failure to set a date for opening the accession talks with Skopje.