Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister and VMRO-DPMNE leader, refused to accept the conditions that opposition leader Branko Crvenkovski set in exchange of stopping the boycott of Parliament and running in the local elections. Ruling VMRO-DPMNE made it clear that they have no intention of holding early parliamentary elections together with the local and appealed to the opposition to return to Parliament and through dialogue in institutions seek solutions to the problems and challenges.

SDSM replied instantaneously that they were going to boycott the local elections unless they were held together with early parliamentary elections and that they had no intention of returning to Parliament.

It has thus become certain that bringing the positions of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM closer together is hardly likely.