Nikola Gruevski Surrenders

Nikola Gruevski has resigned from party leadership V MRO DPMNE, which has governed Macedonia until early June of this year, when the country's leadership received the current prime minister's Social Democratic League, Zoran Zaev.

Gruevski, who had taken the lead in VMRO DPMNE in 2003, submitted the irrevocable resignation to the party's Steering Committee due to poor results in October's local elections.

Out of 80 municipalities, this party managed only to win that in five of them, marking the worst result since the establishment of pluralism.

The new leader of the largest opposition party will be selected at the extraordinary congress in two weeks.

” MRO DPMNE decided that the party congress will be held on 22 December and 23 December, in Valandovo, where 544 delegates will participate, whose list will be published on the party's official website”, party secretary General Hristian Mickovski said in front of the media.

Several possible candidates -- such as MPs Ilija Dimovski and Antonio Mislososki, former Foreign Affairs Minister Nikola Poposki, former Health Minister Nikola Dimitrov, Hristija Mickovski -- are mentioned, but also the name of former party chairman Lubco Georgievski.

Gruevski's departure from the party occurs at the moment when he and many other other personalities are facing court processes for serious criminal acts.

At least four processes are under way for election fraud, tender traps, order of violence against LSDM officials and other works are under way.

Meanwhile, six VMRO deputies are also being prosecuted for the violence exercised in the Assembly.

Three of them are in custody for 30 days, while three others are in domestic prison.

They are accused of criminal activity “of threatening the constitutional order and public security” in the case of the invasion of the Assembly by protesters who opposed the election of the Speaker of the Assembly from the ranks of the new parliamentary majority, but also formation of the new government by the LSDM. The former interior minister, Mitko Cavkov, is also in custody, accused of the same work and of failing to intervene police on the day of the Assembly invasion.

The arrests have been rejected by VMRO and Gruevski, who has accused LSDM of political revanstism.

The exit from the created state, VMRO sees it in an amnesty for all prohibited persons if they are being prosecuted for the violence in the Parliament, but it has been rejected by the LSDM, which demands responsibility for what had happened “Thursday bloody”, as the day of the Parliament's occupation is known, April 27th.