The President of the Republic of Macedonia, Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, today organized a meeting with the President of VMRO-DPMNE Nikola Gruevski, the President of SDSM Branko Crvenkovski, the President of DUI, Ali Ahmeti and the President of New Democracy Imer Selmani.

The purpose of summoning this meeting was continuation of political dialogue and discussion on early parliamentary elections, which will enable citizens to vote for a wide range of political options. President Ivanov believes this is a period in which leaders of political parties should give their full contribution in this direction.

Leaders agreed the electoral list to be cleaned within 30 days, two representatives from the position, two representatives from the opposition and one member of the administration to form the electoral boards, being the two demands of SDSM, while New Democracy demanded redefining of the borders of the sixth election district, the number of voters of which goes far beyond the legally approved 5% compared to the other election districts.


The President of VMRO – DPMNE Nikola Gruevski, after the meeting stated that SDSM’s demands are accepted conditionally, which would be fully implemented if the elections are not boycotted. Today’s meeting was focused on the four demands which were assessed by SDSM as more important and we accepted two of them conditionally. Conditionally, if SDSM does not boycott the elections, but if they do so, we will not accept them since we have serious counter-arguments, Gruevski said.


The President of SDSM Branko Crvenkovski said they insist the four demands to be met, including the adoption of a law on equal distribution of the means for public campaigns and unblocking of the accounts of A1 TV. We are not returning to the Parliament absolutely as long as all the conditions are met and an agreement is reached and there is consensus over the electoral rules. If the necessary conditions are not accepted for fair and democratic elections the decision remains and we will boycott the Parliament, said Crvenkovski.



The representatives of the Albanian parties assessed the meeting as productive and expressed their expectation that the positive atmosphere shall result in more concrete decisions. I think that this was a productive and constructive meeting. All stakeholders expressed their positions in view of reaching mutually acceptable solution, said Ali Ahmeti, President of DUI. My contribution was in view of drafting a good law that would guarantee fair, democratic and transparent elections, said Imer Selmani, President of New Democracy.