Gordana Jankuloska

A photoreporter and a police officer have been injured in Wednesday's protests in Macedonian capital Skopje as demonstrators gathered for a second night to demand that the government stepped down.

Wednesday's gathering in front of the Macedonian Parliament was more peaceful that the previous one, which on Tuesday evening left dozens wounded.

The political tensions in Macedonia remain heightened as the opposition SDSM leader Zoran Zaev hurled fresh accusations against the government.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Zaev stated that he will expose facts proving that the state leadership and the interior ministry plotted in the cover-up of a 2011 police killing.

Releasing the latest in a series of wiretapped tapes on Tuesday, opposition Social Democrats leader Zoran Zaev said the conversations in the new batch of recordings prove the authorities tried to cover up the killing of 21-year-old Martin Neskovski.

Neskovski was beaten to death the night that the ruling VMRO DPMNE celebrated its election victory on June 6, 2011.

At the opposition's 24th press conference on the subject of government wiretapping, the Social Democrats presented new tapes that they say reveal the ruling party's tight grip on the media.

At its 19th press conference in recent weeks on the subject of alleged government wiretapping, the opposition Social Democrats, SDSM, on Tuesday presented covertly-recorded tapes that they say further prove that the ruling VMRO DPMNE party of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has been systematically and massively employing its own people in all state institutions and punishing those who think diff

The opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, presented more tapes on Thursday that it says prove government officials and their associates committed blatant fraud in a key local election.

The Modernist facade of Macedonia's justice ministry has received a radical new-old look, in the latest phase of the Classically-inspired revamp of the capital, Skopje.

The north front has received a complete makeover while the ground floor has been expanded at the expense of a pedestrian passage beneath the building.

At a press conference in the southeastern town of Strumica on Wednesday, the opposition Social Democratic party, SDSM presented more tapes that point to election fraud on the part of government officials and their associates.

Top officials from Macedonia's ruling VMRO-DPMNE party did every unlawful activity they could think of in order to win the local election in 2013 in the municipality of Centar in Skopje, the mayor of the municipality, Andrej Zernovski, claimed on Thursday.

The ruling VMRO DPMNE party has orchestrated massive electoral fraud during the past elections, using fictive voters, fake ID cards, pressure on individuals and firms and misuse of police and administration, the opposition Social Democrats claimed on Friday.