Skopje, 5 February 2024 (MIA) — The news of a bullet found on the Alliance for Albanians leader Arben Taravari's doorstep is concerning and the law authorities should investigate it, SDSM president Dimitar Kovachevski said Monday in response to a reporter asking him for comment.

"Of course this is worrisome," Kovachevski said, adding that he was aware that the police were already investigating a Tetovo attack on a government institution director that happened on Sunday. The name of that attacker, he said, was known to the police.

"And if this information you just shared is correct, then there also should be a rigorous intervention in this case as well," Kovachevski told the press.

To a journalist's question whether he thought the Alliance for Albanians was EU-oriented after recent developments pointing to rifts in the party, the SDSM leader said it was up to the party to decide whether it would be for the EU or for "some undefined alternatives."

"Each political party chooses its coalition partners in line with their shared values," he said. "In the 2024 elections, we will have two political party blocs: one that will be for European integration and the other that will be for isolation.

"One bloc will be for North Macedonia as a member of the EU and part of Western Europe. The second bloc is for North Macedonia in some vague, unexplained alternative, looking more to the East than to the West. 

"It is up to the Alliance to choose whether it will go West or East, whether it will be choose Europe or some undefined alternatives no one has explained. It is their decision, after all," Kovachevski said. mr/