The name issue should be resolved over the next three instead of six months as a crucial condition to de-block the process of integration with the EU and NATO and to keep the coalition between BDI and VMRO-DPMNE alive, BDI says. Unless this happens by the end of March, BDI leader Ali Ahmeti is going to tell Prime Minister Gruevski that his political party is walking out of the Government, Vreme reports.

Senior sources from BDI have unofficially admitted that the rift between VMRO-DPMNE and BDI is growing deeper regarding lots of other issues in addition to their differing approaches to the resolution of the problem with the country’s name. The disagreements, they says, brought to the surface the animosity between certain other structures of the two political parties, which escalated into a direct exchange of messages between leaders Ahmeti and Gruevski, as well as with arguments via their female exponents, Teuta Arifi and Kosana Mazneva-Nikolik.

Fewer are the explanations of experts, according to which, the heated up situation in the governing coalition is a result of the turmoil inside BDI and the ever more evident tilting of the wing led by Teuta Arifi toward SDSM.