— the VMRO-DPMNE of former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, which currently heads the governing coalition. All others have boycotted proceedings, saying there are no conditions for free and fair elections.
Protestors wearing masks use water guns to spray colored paint on the triumph arc "Porta Makedonija", during an anti-government protest in Skopje, Macedonia, Tuesday, May 17, 2016. Protests have continued in the Balkan country almost every evening, after the country's president pardoned over a month ago dozens of politicians who were facing criminal proceedings for alleged involvement in a wiretapping scandal. The message on the right reads: "Freedom instead of fear!"
The appeal to the Constitutional Court was brought by the junior coalition partner, the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration. The court on Wednesday suspended all election activity pending a decision next week.
Macedonia has been in political turmoil since February 2015 following a wiretapping scandal.
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