Menduh Thaci

The heads of North Macedonia's main political parties met at the presidential palace in Skopje on Tuesday and agreed to postpone the early elections, which were originally slated for April 12.

The modalities for the postponement and a new election date have yet to be determined, however.

FYROM’s new reformist government faces it first big test after a small coalition partner, the DPA – Movement for Reforms, said it would quit the Social Democrat-led government if it fails to adopt a law extending the official use of Albanian by early September.

Representatives of three of the four main Macedonian Albanian parties met Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama and Foreign Minister Ditmir Bushati in Tirana on Thursday.

The campaign for the upcoming snap parliamentary elections in Madedonia on December 11 has oficially begun on Monday, reported BGNES.

These will be the ninth parliamentary elections since the country declared independence in 1991. A total of 11 parties and coalitions will take part in the elections.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski announced on Wednesday that an agreement has been reached between the leaders of the four main parties to bring to an end the political crisis, which has gripped the country in the last several months.

The EU Commissioner  Johannes Hahn will be visiting Macedonia on Tuesday to try to help the country's leaders resolve a months-long political crisis.

After optimistic reports of a way out of the political crisis in Macedonia, fresh crisis talks planned for Friday have been cancelled.

In a short press statement issued after the meeting, Macedonia's four main party leaders said only that they had met to discuss details about the government that will prepare snap elections.

The deal was agreed on June 2 with the mediation of the EU Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn.

The second meeting of the leaders of Macedonia's four biggest political parties aimed at resolving the political crisis in the country ended inconclusively on Monday, telma.mk reported.

The leaders agreed to meet again on 26 May.

The leaders of Macedonia's four biggest political parties met on Monday in a fresh attempt to ease tensions and find a way for resolving the months-long political crisis.