There is no agreement between VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM on unblocking the budget 2013 adoption even after the second coordination meeting at Speaker Trajko Veljanoski’s office Wednesday. A new attempt at bridging differences has been set for Thursday morning despite the fact that neither party is willing to make a concession. The government, represented by Speaker Veljanoski, and the opposition, through SDSM coordinator Igor Ivanovski, each put forward their own proposals for solving the problem at the coordination meeting Wednesday.

Speaker Veljanoski proposed that the Government, through Finance Minister Zoran Stavreski, should answer in writing in two days whether and what of the 1,200 submitted amendments of the opposition are acceptable. The accepted amendments would then be incorporated in the government draft budget to be provided to Parliament on Saturday and discussed at the plenary session Monday. SDSM resolutely refused the proposal.