Athens wary of VMRO comeback

The expected victory of the center-right nationalist VMRO-DPMNE party in North Macedonia's presidential and parliamentary elections is worrying Greek officials, who do not know how far the new government will go towards questioning, or even repudiating, the 2018 Prespes Agreement, which put an end to nearly 30 years of tension between the two countries over the name "Macedonia," which Greeks considered an outright (mis-) appropriation, not only of the geographical entity but of the heritage of the ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedonia.

North Macedonia's presidential election runoff and the parliamentary election will both take place on Wednesday, May 8. Gordana-Siljanovska-Davkova, the VMRO-DPMNE candidate for the largely ceremonial post of president, got more than double the votes of Social Democrat incumbent Stevo Pendarovski in the first round, on April 24.

A renewed...