After the DUI party leader Ali Ahmeti poured cold water on the idea of a pre-election coalition with SDSM, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said that any such talks would begin no sooner than late November. SDSM and DUI had a pre-election coalition for the presidential elections earlier this year, and were still barely able to hold off the VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate, indicating that SDSM would lose the general elections if it fought the opposition one on one.
We haven’t discussed it yet. There was one position for the presidential elections, where there is only one candidate. We haven’t opened this discussion and we have no intention to open it until late November. The elections are far off, we have nearly six months of until the vote, Zaev said.
SDSM made a push for Albanian votes in 2016 and this came largely at the expense of the DUI voting base. The Albanian wing in SDSM led by Muhamed Zekiri, which is trying to eat up as much DUI voters as possible, is a particular source of friction in the coalition.
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