Coalition partners Nikola Gruevski and Menduh Thaci shook hands in front of the TV cameras yesterday. They showed that they are united prior to today's assembly session at which a no-confidence vote will be taken.

"Vreme" comments that the support of PEI leader Fijat Canovski, DOM leader Liljana Popovska, Democratic Alliance leader Pavle Trajanov, and Socialist Party leader Ljubisav Ivanov is uncertain. The daily speculates that these parliamentarians will not attend today's session. "Vreme" notes that the parliamentarians of VMRO-People's Party are also divided, stressing that they would vote in accordance with their own convictions. The parliamentarians of the parties of the smaller ethnic communities are also playing for time.