Rafiz Aliti

Macedonia's Transport Ministry has issued a call to choose a consultancy firm tasked with coming up with the best privatization model for the national postal service, Makedonska Posta AD.

Macedonia's junior ruling party, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, says it will do what it takes to block the adoption of the new provisions proposed by the main ruling VMRO DPMNE party, which it deems anti-Albanian.

Albanian-language media in Macedonia have reported an exchange of punches between two rival groups at Tuesday's congress of the DUI in the town of Struga, which apparently left one man in hospital with head injuries.

The party itself has stayed silent. Its spokesperson, Bujar Osmani, was not available for comment on Wednesday. The police said no incident was reported.