Macedonia's President Gjorge Ivanov listens during a news conference in Riga April 27, 2012. Ivanov is on a three-day state visit to Latvia. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins
SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia is set to call early parliamentary elections in a bid to end a political deadlock sparked by the two main ruling coalition members' failure to agree on a candidate for the upcoming presidential vote, officials said on Saturday.
The ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration (DUI), a junior coalition member, was angered by its larger partner VMRO-DPMNE's decision to nominate current president Gjorge Ivanov as its candidate.
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