Opposition and government leaders reached an agreement Friday brokered by European officials, according to which local elections will not be postponed as all political parties are going to return to Parliament, Dnevnik reports.

After a few hours of talks with the Macedonian political leaders, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fule, Richard Howitt, the European Parliament Rapporteur on Macedonia, and Jerzy Buzek, former Chairman of the European Parliament, said the country returned to normal political life and to its European course.

“The parties agreed to resume normal political life, to return to Parliament and to participate in the scheduled local elections. They also agreed to form an ad-hoc commission about the events of before and after 24 December, including security in and out of Parliament, while the results of this commission’s work will be included in this year’s report of the European Commission on the country’s progress,” Mr. Howitt said after meeting the leaders of VMRO-DPMNE, SDSM and BDI, Nikola Gruevski, Branko Crvenkovski and Ali Ahmeti.