Dimitar Apasiev, leader of the populist Levica party, called on the Albanian opposition parties to support the vote of no confidence in the Zaev Government. One of the Albanian members of Parliament who supported the push became uncertain in it, and as nominal reason cites  the inclusion of Levica in the process, as Levica opposes Macedonia’s NATO membership.

If the members of Parliament from Alliance, Alternative and BESA do not use the historic chance they have on Thursday to send DUI to the opposition, then, on the next general elections, whenever they are, they will be steamrolled by that same DUI party as a frog and will never recover. From a position of power, DUI will win 18 seats. They will struggle to win 9. So keep your heads cool, set emotions to the side and I’ll see you at the session on Thursday, Apasiev said.

DUI has been in power for 17 of the past 19 years, after sparking the 2001 civil war, and has accumulated institutional power it uses to quash other Albanian parties. AA, Alternative and BESA see a chance to put an end to this state of affairs after Zaev announced that he will resign in wake of his local elections defeat, but their members of Parliament are also under strong pressure to back down.