Skopje, 26 November 2022 (MIA) - North Macedonia will hold first presidential and then parliamentary elections in 2024. In these elections, the same thing will happen again in the municipality of Mavrovo Rostushe, when VMRO-DPMNE talked about holding huge advantage of their political party and in the end, they had disastrous results at the elections, PM Dimitar Kovachevski told reporters on Saturday while visiting the cooking oil factory “Brilijant” in Shtip. According to Kovachevski, this is the result of the policies that this Government is implementing, which, as he said, “are policies for the European integration of the country with a very clear plan for dealing with the economic and energy crisis.” “VMRO-DPMNE was able to show what it can do, since it won in over 50 municipalities in the country just one year ago, and we see that it manages those municipalities disastrously. As they destroyed the country for 11 years from moving a single millimeter in European integration, from not having a single large investment in the energy sector, they confirm the same now that they are exactly the same party, with exactly the same way of governing in the City of Skopje. As the country was stuck under the rule of VMRO-DPMNE for eleven years, now Skopje is stuck under the rule of VMRO-DPMNE for a whole year,” Kovachevski noted. Responding to reporter’s question, Kovachevski said he had a meeting with the Alternativa leader, Afrim Gashi on Friday. Asked if SDSM would cede a ministerial seat in the Government in the negotiations with Alternativa, the Prime Minister pointed out that it is ungrateful to talk about it now. “We discussed the implementation of the Government's program as well as some elements of the cooperation we have with Alternativa, which unfortunately have not been realized. I also talked with Taravari in regard to possible expansion of the Government, and the talks were focused on the country’s EU path and all the decisions that should be taken with a broad political consensus in the Parliament, above all here I mean the continuation of the European path of the state and the laws from the area of the rule of law, the fight against corruption and dealing with the economic crisis,” said Kovachevski, adding that there has been no talks of concrete cooperation in certain ministries so far. He added that when a government concept is made, it does not mean whether someone will step down or someone will take over a ministry, but it is about forming a government based on values, program, in which each political party should take responsibility in a certain ministry.