Boycotting elections – a good or a bad idea? This dilemma is nothing new yet it has become a burning issue recently considering the opposition is, at least for now, determined not to run in the local elections in March unless modifications are made to the election law in agreement with the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations and the monitoring is enhanced. Aleksandar Petreski, mayor of Ohrid from SDSM, said Thursday that if the opposition decides not to run in the elections, elections will not be held at all.

“How is it possible for VMRO-DPMNE to organize and run in the elections alone? It is impossible,” Petreski said.

The boycott of the local elections is not going to be a precedent in the political life of Macedonia. As the Macedonian public knows, VMRO-DPMNE boycotted the second round of the parliamentary elections in 1994.