Skopje provocations in ruling party rally

Flags bearing the 16-beam Vergina Sun and maps of the so-called “Great Macedonia” were held by governing party VMRO-DPMNE supports in Skopje, during an anti-rally held and attended by PM Nikola Gruevski. The Skopje hands of the attending crowd pointed to the Skopjan “dream”. Three fingers for Vardaris, the Aegean Sea, and Pirin, and the “O” from the word “Obedineta” which means United.

The rally took place in front of the Skopje parliament and according to local media, there was a huge attempt to ferry people on buses from across the country in order to show strong support for the Skopje prime minister.

The rally came as an answer to the one conducted by the opposition party. The latter’s rally contained no anti-Greek flags or mottos on boards, whereas the ruling party’s rally contained the usual ones on which the VMRO-DPMNE party has invested in, betting on the idea of Macedonia which has somehow been “conquered” by Greece.

There has not been a reaction yet from the Greek Foreign Ministry for all that has happened. According to the 1995 Agreement between the two countries forbids Skopje from using the Vergina Sun as a symbol, as well as any propaganda in any means which portrays the idea of “Great Macedonia” which reaches all the way to Olympus and Chalkidiki.