Early parliamentary elections will be held in Macedonia for the first time, on 1 June this year. Assembly Chairman Ljubisa Georgievski scheduled the sixth parliamentary elections just a few hours after the Assembly adopted the initiative for dissolving of the Parliament. In the special address to the nation, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski assured citizens that the early elections would be democratic, adding that the opposition is unnecessarily warning of dark scenarios.

 
Opposition parties SDSM and LDP, as well as ruling party NSDP, walked out of the Assembly before the initiative was put to the vote. The initiative for dissolving of the Parliament was adopted unanimously by the parliamentarians who remained in the Assembly, and it was followed with applause.