There are no threats for the stability of the governing coalition between Nikola Gruevski and Ali Ahmeti after the representatives of their parties, VMRO-DPMNE and BDI, to the State Census Commission resigned Tuesday and decided to stop the census because of their misunderstandings over the taking of record of the Albanians emigrants from Western Macedonia. The only victim of the fact that three days before the start of the statistical operation Ahmeti said that the census should be taken by a different methodology, thus blocking the entire process, is the census itself.

As the government cabinet confirmed, a meeting about the census has been scheduled for Wednesday yet government sources say that the resignations of the State Census Commission members will only be accepted at the meeting and it will be concluded that for the time being there are no conditions for a census, which is why the operation needs to be cancelled. The coalition partners have not yet agreed over a new timing or new legal provisions to count the population.

The cancelation of the census will be tabled in Parliament sometime this week as well.