Agriculture Minister Arianit Hoxha from the BESA party said that the party will definitely vote in favor of bringing down the Zaev Government on Thursday with its key three members of Parliament, and that even if the vote fails, he will resign from the Government and BESA will continue to work to bring the Government down.

We will vote against the Government, and what happens next will be up to our party institutions to decide. We don’t close the door to talk to SDSM or Zoran Zaev in the future – he is the person who most sacrificed to bring Macedonia in the Euro-Atlantic processes. But our shared interest is to bring down the Government. We want to remove the DUI party from power and they (VMRO-DPMNE) want to bring down the Government. And that is the first step we will make, Hoxha said.

BESA’s defection from the coalition was the strongest blow to the Zaev coalition after his defeat in the local elections. BESA announced it will leave the coalition over a bitter mayoral race in the village of Zelino. After BESA made its announcement, the Administrative Court decided the disputed race in favor of BESA, in an apparent attempt to calm the party down, but according to Hoxha, its decision to side with the opposition remains unchanged.