The international community is planning a leader meeting aimed at finding a solution to the crisis between the leaders of the 4 biggest political parties from Macedonia, which will be held in Vienna on Friday, EU's delegation in Skopje confirmed.
VMRO-DPMNE leader Nikola Gruevski, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev, DUI leader Ali Ahmenti and DPA leader Menduh Thaci were formally invited by the 3 Euro-parliamentarians that were involved in implementing the Przino Agreement, Ivo Vajgl, Eduard Kukan and Richard Howitt. EU enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, EU and US ambassadors to Macedonia Aivo Orav and Jess Baily are also supposed to attend the Vienna meeting.
During his visit to the US, Commissioner Hahn expressed concern Saturday about the situation in Macedonia and appealed to the parties signatories of the Przino agreement to return to the negotiating table and to return the country back on its the Euro-integration path. To that effect, he announced another mediation attempt, together with the Euro-Parliament members.
VMRO-DPMNE and DUI deem that June 5 elections should be held and that after the initial postponement from April 24 there should not be another additional postponement. The ruling parties believe that elections are the only way out of the crisis and that the opposition does not want elections because it is afraid of bad ratings.
On the other side, SDSM considers that elections should be postponed indefinitely and that current circumstances, such as an unrevised electoral roll and no reforms in the media, are not right for holding elections.
EU fears the situation in Macedonia might escalate, especially after the daily protests of opposition supporters that might spiral out of control easily.