Polarised North Macedonia votes amid virus surge

North Macedonia heads to the polls Wednesday to elect a government in the midst of a resurgence of coronavirus cases, which has fuelled a bitter blame-game between rival camps. His right-wing rivals in VMRO-DPMNE, however, argue that the price of a name change was too high — Skopje added “North” to the country’s name last year in order to end a decades-old row with Greece, which claims exclusive rights to the name Macedonia for its own province.