Law professor Borce Davitkovski believes that it is too late for the Zaev Government to enact any meaningful reforms, as the Prime Minister is promising.

You can’t do reforms at the end of your term. This Government has some 10-11 months left. The campaign will begin, there will be a technical Government three months before the vote, there is simply no time for reforms. They say there is will, but I don’t see it. It is likely that we will have to wait for next year, after the elections, to see some meaningful reforms, Davitkovski said during an event in Ohrid.

Elections should be held no later than December 2020, although early elections have been an option ever since Macedonia lost out on the promised June date to open EU accession talks. Under the so-called Przino rules, Zaev should resign three months before the elections and key departments should be handed over to the opposition.