Xhaferi: There's no Tirana Platform; Albania: We back "platform of Albanians in Macedonia"

Talat Xhaferi says that Macedonian President Djordje Ivanov "has a deadline of ten days" to give the parliamentary majority the mandate to form a government.

"If President Ivanov does not give the parliamentary majority the mandate to form a government he will make a criminal offense," the newly elected Macedonian parliament speaker has told Croatia's state television HRT, Beta is reporting.

According to Xhaferi, Ivanov "has to do it because the Constitution and the laws do not recognize such non-action."

The member of the assembly from the Democratic Union of Albanian (DUI), a party of the new parliamentary majority, also said that he is the only legal and legitimate president of the Macedonian Assembly, because a majority of deputies elected him on April 27.

Macedonian media are reporting that Xhaferi has denied that "the Tirana Platform" that is a threat...