The leaders of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM, Nikola Gruevski and Zoran Zaev, are going to meet Tuesday afternoon at the Parliamentarians’ Club in Skopje in a bid to prepare the ground for talks between the two parties for the purpose of overcoming the parliamentary crisis, Utrinski vesnik reports Monday.

VMRO-DPMNE are said to have agreed with the time and place Zaev suggested for holding his first meeting with Gruevski after the elections that complicated further the already strained relations between the two principal stakeholders on the Macedonian political stage.

Following the relatively peaceful weekend, Gruevski and Zaev’s Tuesday meeting will be decisive for how the situation created by SDSM with its refusal to recognize the results of the April elections further unfolds. It depends on the meeting Tuesday whether talks would begin between working groups of VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM for the opposition MPs’ return to Parliament or whether the political and legal maze would get complicated further.