The only apology that Mr. Zaev should have said today in his press conference should have been contained in two sentences, I am ashamed of what I did and immediately resign as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia, I propose the parliamentary majority to meet as soon as possible, to form a technical government and to hold early parliamentary elections within 100 days. Only then we would have seen the true face of the person that after such a scandal, primitive I would say, should have done it if he wanted to be respected by his own citizens, VMRO – DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski wrote on Facebook following the Macedonian Prime Minister’s scandalous phone conversations with Russian pranksters.

It is disastrous for me to hear what we have heard because as I managed to understand traveling to here, he did not deny the tape, but on the contrary he confirmed its authenticity and practically confirmed a series of things that citizens in Macedonia, but also in Europe could hear, among them the consent to bribe the religious leader to hundreds of millions of Orthodox Christians in the world, Patriarch Bartholomew. After such a scandal, the only apology should have been immediate resignation and calling early parliamentary elections. Everything else is hypocrisy and I will repeat he continues his personal frustration and agony of the citizens, he adds.