Along with the campaign for president in the biggest opposition party is occurring serious turbulences which can decide the future of the party after the election, reports Republika.
From SDSM party sources it is learned that the party instead of focus on the presidential elections, the focus is on the question of who can be candidate for Prime Minister in the campaign for parliamentary elections.
Such talks were held in an awkward atmosphere especially following the fact that the leadership pressed by the polls showing dramatically lower level of confidence than for the ruling VMRO – DPMNE. So the main goal is to lose the election as much as possible less difference. The “hottest chestnut” was precisely the dilemma who should run for position of Prime Minister. Such ambitions have shown two key people in SDSM Radmila Shekerinska and Zoran Zaev.
Intra-party analysis showed that the ratings of the two politicians are low especially after the revealed affairs in the past period, i.e. one with the expensive rents that Shekerinska husband receives and payment for their own house in his personal property which raised debate on how comes Shekerinska belongs to the middle class with more than 5 thousand euro per month for rent. However, it is estimated that the affair with SMS messages sent from Zaev to Tachi have greater negative effect and greater negative impact that affected his rating.
As a reminder, Zaev tried to charm Tachi through SMS for cooperation that would be achieved in the elections. The recent measurements of the ratings by the Center for Research and Analysis (CRA), showed that the leader of VMRO – DPMNE and Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, has two and half times higher ratings than his direct rival, SDSM leader Zoran Zaev.
Gruevski has rating of 34.1 and Zaev has 13.6. This difference was increased especially after the campaign of the ruling party that had further demoralizing effect over leader Zaev.
After few days of tension, the decision still falls on candidate Radmila Shekerinska for Prime Minister. According to the general opinion, she is at the end of her political career and still would be more favorable SDSM Candidate for Prime Minister.
Moreover, she had suffered two electoral defeats from Gruevski so that the damage caused by another defeat would not be huge.
This decision caused surprise and comments in various circles of SDSM. Party sources brief that in the coming days SDSM would do what they speaks for years, to establish shadow government that would include all personnel patchwork, writes portal Republika.