No agreement was reached after Tuesday’s one-hour meeting held between PM Nikola Gruevski and SDSM leader Branko Crvenkovski. Following the meeting, Gruevski stated that Crvenkovski put forward an ultimatum, reiterating the demand for organizing early parliamentary polls alongside local elections, which "is unacceptable for VMRO-DPMNE.". VMRO-DPMNE, he added, will prepare for local elections because SDSM is not the only opposition party in Macedonia. Crvenkovski is disappointed because Gruevski acted as though nothing happened on 24 December and proposed the opposition to return to the Parliament in order for the dialogue to continue. Crvenkovski said that the country is in a political crisis and the only way out is early parliamentary elections.