SDSM is getting back to the parliamentary coordination meetings and has quit the conditions that it set to vote for the new Parliament’s Rules of Procedure, as well as the idea to form a separate parliamentary committee to control the audit reports, said SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski Wednesday. The office of the EU in Skopje welcomed the decision, while the government dubbed it as a cheap trick.

Crvenkovski explained that the Social-Democrats decided to take this step so that the government stops using them as an excuse for the negative report of the EC in November.

“SDSM took this decision bearing in mind the national and state interests and the sincere commitment to continuing the Euro-Atlantic integration of the country. In the segment where we, as an opposition, could have done something – the political dialogue – the job is done,” Crvenkovski sad, adding that the opposition took a similar step last year too to help obtain a positive report from the EC and a recommendation for opening EU accession talks.