Gordana Jankuloska

Opposition leader Zoran Zaev on Monday released the latest in a series of covert tapes, which he said were recordings of conversations between Finance Minister Zoran Stavrevski and Gordana Jankuloska that proved that the government was lying about country's finances being stable.

Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski declined on Monday to comment directly on the latest press conference of the opposition Social Democrats SDSM on Sunday, where five recordings were presented involving discussions between state officials, judges and a pro-government news editor on appointments of judges as well as court cases and prosecutors' work.

Five conversations were published on Sunday at a press conference of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, involving discussions between top state officials, judges and a pro-government news editor about the appointment of judges as well as court cases and prosecutors' work.

Macedonia's main ruling party, VMRO DPMNE, has dismissed opposition allegations of conducting widespread wiretapping as nonsensical and contradictory, calling the Social Democratic Party leader, Zoran Zaev, "a puppet of foreign services".

Top politicians, opposition leaders, NGO activists, journalists, businessmen, top academics, religious leaders and members of the judiciary have been subjected to widespread surveillance ordered by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and secret police chief Saso Mijalkov, the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, claimed on Monday.