Macedonian Parliament, Sobranie, ratified on Thursday the name deal for the country agreed with Greece last month for the second time after country’s president had vetoed the first vote, the Beta news agency reported.

The nationalist opposition VMRO-DPMNE party again boycotted the vote, but Sobranie passed it with 69 out of 120 deputies in favour of their country’s new name – North Macedonia.

President Gjorge Ivanov, supported by the nationalists, has said earlier he will not sign the deal even if the parliament endorses it again, “regardless of pressures, blackmail and threats.”

It will be the second time that the parliament decision will have to come into force after being published in the Official Gazette.

The same thing happened with the Law of Use of Albanian Language which Ivanov also refused to sign twice.

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