Several thousand people protested in Macedonia’s capital Skopje on Saturday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, AFP reporters said, with negotiations over the country’s deep political crisis in a deadlock. Organised by the “Besa” protest movement, which is dominated by Macedonia’s Albanian minority, the protesters also called for the resignation of Ali Ahmeti, leader of the main Albanian party DUI, which is allied to Gruevski’s conservatives. Macedonia’s leaders agreed this month to hold elections in early 2016 in order to overcome a crisis that has embroiled the country for months. Opposition socialists have been boycotting parliament, claiming electoral fraud and refusing to recognise the results of polls held last year. In addition, the centre-left opposition accuses Gruevski of wiretapping some 20,000 people, including politicians and journalists, as well as of corruption, a murder cover-up and other wrongdoings. Gruevski’s government, in re...
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