In the absence of the opposition political parties SDSM, PDSH and RDK, with 66 votes in favor the Macedonian Parliament adopted Friday the modifications to the election law, as with the votes of BDI the Bandinter majority rule was also observed. This move of the government is a clear sign for the opposition that the government intends to swing the next local elections, which, the opposition, however, has no intention to allow.

According to the opposition parties, the adopted modifications to the election law do not include even half of the recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR given after last year’s parliamentary elections, as SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski said a month ago that unless all recommendations of the OSCE/ODIHR were accepted, they were not going to run in the poll.