By Kole Casule SKOPJE, July 26 (Reuters) - Macedonia's parliament on Saturday voted in a new conservative coalition government that will try to get the country's NATO and EU bids back on track while preserving a fragile ethnic peace. The government led by conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski was elected with 78 votes for and none against in a late evening session boycotted by the main opposition parties. Gruevski's VMRO-DPMNE party won a majority of 63 seats in the 120-seat parliament in a June 1 election that was marred by violence and fraud among Macedonia's 25 percent Albanian minority. For the sake of stability, the new coalition government includes the largest ethnic Albanian party, the Democratic Union of Integration, headed by former guerrilla leader Ali Ahmeti. Since splitting peacefully from Yugoslavia in...
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