After VMRO-DPMNE’s 16th congress in Valandovo on December 22nd and 23rd, in 2017, and the election of the new president, in the daily communication of the main opposition party with the public, as well as in the statements of its head people, there is no “S-D-S”, as an insult to the ruling SDSM.
Addressing the party “without a M” was regular practice for the most of last year since the Albanian platform appeared and VMRO-DPMNE said that “the SDSM coalition with DUI and other Albanian parties means that the party has given up Macedonia” and is working against its interests and said he did not deserve a “M” in its name.
This, with rare exceptions, mainly in press conferences and announcements of municipal committees, ended somewhere in early December, with the announcement by Nikola Gruevski that he was withdrawing from the presidential chair, and it was then the party returned the “M” to SDSM.
