Macedonia Candidate “Too Rude For President”

Warming up for the official start of the Macedonia presidential race, the ruling conservative VMRO DPMNE party came up with an unusual way to attack the candidate of the opposition Social Democrats, calling him ‘too rude’ to lead the nation.

The VMRO party youth asked Ljubomir Frckoski to apologize to them for calling VMRO “rednecks”, and “morons” in a newspaper columns he wrote before he became the candidate of the Social Democrats.

“We the students and the young people in general think that Frckoski is too vulgar to become a president” Marina Krstevska from VMRO told media Sunday.

The party’s youth organization erected a banner in downtown Skopje with all the Frckoski quotes they considered offensive to them and the country.

Frckoski’s camp responded by saying that the “ridiculous campaign” only shows VMRO’s nervousness.

Frckoski who is trailing the VMRO candidate a month before the March 22 election criticized the current government for running a populist and short-sighted campaign that leads the country away from its strategic goals, NATO and EU membership.

Previously he had called the candidate of VMRO, Georgi Ivanov, to a TV duel. Ivanov said he would accept only if Frckoski apologized for the insults.

Frckoski’s camp keeps on insisting that Ivanov is only a puppet in the hands of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia’s most popular politician.