FYROM: Protests Resume in Skopje After Easter Break

BELGRADE - Anti and pro-government protests have resumed in FYROM (Macedonia) ahead of elections in June described by the country's President Gjorge Ivanov as the beginning of a "new chapter" for the country - but opposed by Social Democrats, SDSM, who are demanding they should be postponed.

In February 2015, SDSM released recordings of conversations between government officials supporting allegations that former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's ruling party Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO DPMNE) won elections by fraud.

The recordings allegedly imply that the government rigged the election, the justice system and the media and colluded in the cover-up of the murder of a man by a police officer, whilst 20,000 Macedonian citizens had their phone conversations taped.

Rival protest camps were erected outside government buildings in the capital...