When they go low, we go high, said VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski at the large central rally in the capital Skopje this evening, ahead of the local election run-off on Sunday. Mickoski was referring to the ugly campaign of attacks against the Skopje mayoral candidate Danela Arsovska by the ruling SDSM party, which is trying to portray Arsovska as a “Bulgarian agent”.

My answer to these dark campaigns, to these allegations and despicable frauds is that I am calm because I know they are the result of desperation. These are the final steps of a machine that is losing and tries to pull everyone down with it, Mickoski said.
Mickoski said that the “documents” SDSM is presenting every day to insist that Danela Arsovska has a dual Bulgarian citizenship are “scribbled forgeries” that are used to enflame inter-ethnic tensions.

“They are dividing Macedonia just to save their careers”, Mickoski said about the dark campaign turn Zoran Zaev made in the last days of the elections. In another part of Skopje, Zaev and Silegov were addressing a small rally where they claimed that their electoral loss could lead to ethnic instability in Macedonia.