Macedonia authorities allege opposition plot to topple government
(Reuters) – Police in Macedonia said on Saturday they would charge four people with trying to overthrow the government, including – according to one senior government official – the leader of the main opposition Social Democrats.
Police said the plot involved trying to gather intelligence against the government and blackmailing Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski to dissolve his cabinet and call a snap election.
A senior government official who declined to be named told Reuters that one of the suspects was Zoran Zaev, leader of the Social Democrats, who appeared defiant in comments on Macedonian website A1on.
“This is a clear attempt by the government to prevent the publication of their crimes and all the evil that this government has done,” A1on quoted Zaev as saying.
The prospect of his imprisonment threatens to further deepen political divisions in the former Yugoslav republic, with the Social Democrats boycotting parliament for almost a year since alleging fraud in the last parliamentary election.
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