Skopje, 2 May 2024 (MIA) - Ahead of the May 8 parliamentary elections, SDSM leader Dimitar Kovachevski stressed Thursday that “those who won’t be able to form a government will have lost the elections”, because, he noted, at least 61 MPs are needed for a government.

“Those who won’t be able to form a government will have lost the elections because a government is formed with at least 61 MPs. We will see what the final results will be like on May 8, since the elections aren’t over yet, and then we will be able to talk about the creation of government,” Kovachevski said after a meeting with representatives of the leadership of the Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia.

Asked about the growing nationalist rhetoric in the campaign, the SDSM leader stressed that “nationalist rhetoric leads nowhere”, highlighting that the current elections are “elections over the future”.

“I have already condemned the statements of Mr. Ahmeti regarding the inappropriate chanting at the ‘Macedonia’ square, because those are anachronous chants that take us back 20 years to some buried past that we overcame with the Ohrid Framework Agreement, with NATO membership thanks to SDSM, and by launching negotiations with the EU, again thanks to SDSM, and I also sent a message to the leader of VMRO-DPMNE and their presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska that nationalist rhetoric leads nowhere,” Kovachevski, who is the SDSM-led coalition’s list principal in the first electoral district, said in answer to a journalist’s question.

He added that SDSM remains “the sole political option fighting for a multi-ethnic society and equality of all citizens regardless of their ethnicity and for the country’s EU integration.” 

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