VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Dimitar Arsovski said that he will not bow to Zoran Zaev’s demand for apology, and that he will go to court if necessary. Zaev threatens to sue Arsovski for his comments that “rules like a boss drug cartel that smuggles drugs using state resources”.

Zaev is apparently nervous because soon he will lose all the privileges he held over the past years. In my press conference I said that he is prone to crime, suffered one of the worst electoral defeats to VMRO-DPMNE and Hristijan Mickoski by 100,000 votes difference, that he is robbing our country, that nobody was held responsible for the 14 people that were burnt alive in the Tetovo hospital and that he rules like a boss drug cartel that smuggles drugs using state resources. I stand besides all of this. I have no intention to apologize. The only person who needs to apologize is Zoran Zaev, to the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia, Arsovski said.

Zaev and his family frequently sue VMRO-DPMNE officials for pointing to the numerous corruption and criminal scandals linked to the Zaev regime.