The strongly pro-SDSM Frontline news site published a fake news report alleging that VMRO-DPMNE President Hristijan Mickoski attended a birthday party during the coronavirus crisis, when mass gatherings are strongly discouraged.

The article was titled: “VMRO-DPMNE chiefs celebrate a birthday in violation of coronavirus recommendations”. The photograph the article is based on is at least a year old but it was misrepresented by Frontline as current.

VMRO-DPMNE responded to the fake news incident saying that the party is fully following all recommendations.

The SDSM party can’t let a day go by without spreading hatred, panic and fake news, and even as the citizens are in fear of their safety, SDSM is manipulating the public, the opposition party said.