The decision of the Macedonian opposition front not to run in the local elections is going to prove fatal for democracy in Macedonia. Also, it will aggravate the political crisis and do irreparable damage to Macedonia’s foreign policy. These are the assessments of the political analysts following the decision of the opposition led by SDSM to definitely boycott the local elections after the leaders of the largest parties, Nikola Gruevski and Branko Crvenkovski, failed to reach an agreement. On the one hand, Crvenkovski insisted on an agreement on early parliamentary elections and, on the other hand, Gruevski ruled out that possibility and called on the opposition to measure its strengthen in the local elections on 24 March.