Following the SDSM “victory party” in the uncontested mayoral elections in Stip, pictures were shared not only from a brass band celebration on the city square, but also from a gathering of party officials in a bar where they were not wearing masks or maintaining distance at a time when the bar should’ve been closed.

Kostadinov (SDSM spokesman) and Nikolov (the newly elected mayor) are above the law! They held corona elections followed by a corona party after hours. But this time there is no police barging in, no inspectors, no media hysteria, said VMRO-DPMNE spokesman Naum Stoilkovski.

SDSM abused the police and the inspection service to hound VMRO-DPMNE party leader Hristijan Mickoski, staging a virtual siege of a restaurant in which he was sitting at a table that was supposed to be left unused.