Macedonia approves 2013 budget
admin1 – December 25, 2012 – 12:19pm

With 65 votes in favor and four against, ruling VMRO-DPMNE and BDI passed the budget 2013 after the Parliament’s security service pushed the opposition MPs out of the hall and removed all reporters and cameramen from the gallery. The very tense atmosphere between two groups of protesters outside Parliament and between the MPs and the security inside Parliament produced a series of incidents and left a few MPs and citizens injured. According to VMRO-DPMNE, a coup d’etat was prevented Monday. Leader of the opposition party SDSM Branko Crvenkovski , on the other hand, said that as long as he breathed he would not step off the political stage. The opposition intends to block Parliament’s work. Also, Crvenkovski appealed for civil disobedience.