Outgoing SDSM leader Zoran Zaev handed over Wednesday the position of president of the Social Democrats to the newly-elected leader Dimitar Kovacevski at SDSM’s main offices in Skopje. Zaev congratulated the newly elected leader on his victory in the intra-party elections and wished him a successful term.

I wish you good luck, you have the wisdom, to protect this largest and state-building party, to nurture social democracy, to take care of unity and to preserve freedom and democracy in our country, as well as in the party. I wish you a successful term as leader of SDSM, may you choose a wise leadership that we will all follow. SDSM is a pillar of statehood, Zaev told Kovacevski.

Kovacevski thanked former President Zaev for all his contribution to the leadership of SDSM, but also to the Government in recent years, a period in which the country became a member of NATO and achieved historic successes.