Thousands of protesters rallied in Macedonia on Sunday, demanding Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski resign over wire-tap revelations that have plunged the Balkan country into its worst political crisis since flirting with civil war in 2001. Crowds, including members of Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority, thronged the central avenue in front of Gruevski’s government office, angry over a flood of damaging wire-tap disclosures that the West says have cast serious doubt on the state of democracy in the ex-Yugoslav republic. Opposition leaders say some demonstrators plan to camp out in the streets until Gruevski resigns. Refusing to do so, the conservative leader …read more
Source: Egypt Independent
