Skopje, 30 November 2023 (MIA) - VMRO-DPMNE accepts a leaders' meeting to be held after 11 am on Monday, for talks over finally specifying the date for elections, accepting the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations, as well as the offer to scrap the caretaker government against having a DUI caretaker prime minister, the opposition party said on Thursday. 

"We learned from the media that Prime Minister Kovachevski is scheduling a leaders' meeting for Monday, related to the elections. Such communication through the media on such important issues is his choice. A leaders' meeting is certainly acceptable for Monday, at which we expect to finally discuss specifying a date for elections, accepting the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations, as well as the offer to scrap the caretaker government, in exchange for not having a caretaker prime minister from DUI," VMRO-DPMNE said. 

In addition, the party said that since communication is through the media it demands that the meeting be held after 11 am on Monday because the VMRO-DPMNE leader has classes with students at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering where he works as a full-time professor.

Speaking at Wednesday's joint press conference with the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski said he would sent on Thursday an invitation for a meeting to all leaders of parliamentary parties and to the Parliament Speaker. He noted that the meeting is to focus on the European integration, the regular parliamentary and presidential elections, as well as the Electoral Code amendments in line with the OSCE/ODIHR recommendations. 

The 2024 parliamentary elections are likely to be held in May, with the first round of the presidential elections two weeks earlier.

Photo: MIA archive