Besa

The junior ruling ethnic Albanian party in North Macedonia has reacted with dismay to the announcement of a new election alliance between its senior partner and another ethnic Albanian party.

A senior official from the Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, said the new agreement between the Social Democrats and BESA would only damage the Albanian vote in the April general elections.

The focus of the protest will be the controversial case, called Monster by the authorities, in which six ethnic Albanians were jailed for life for killing five fishermen. Besa [Oath] insists that the trial was a politically motivated set-up by Gruevski.