Now is not the right time for elections because of Macedonia’s European agenda. This was part of the agreement that Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and BDI leader Ali Ahmeti reached on Friday, Dnevnik has learned. The result of this agreement is providing the law on decriminalization and the modifications to the election code to Parliament for approval on the eve of EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule’s visit to Macedonia Monday. The meeting was confirmed by high-ranking officials of BDI who do not reveal any other details of the talks between the governing partners yet confirm that some positive signals were sent.

However, BDI was shocked the next day by the harsh and extreme messages uttered at the celebration of the Union of Young Forces of VMRO-DPMNE, yet Ali Ahmeti’s party dismissed the harshness of these messages, explaining they were merely for “internal party use.”

Prime Minister Gruevski said in his address before the Union of Young Forces of VMRO-DPMNE that he would not give up the law on defenders, that the army uniform had been abused in Slupcane and that the disrespect of laws should be condemned considering the new school sings in Cair had been illegally mounted.