Nikola Gruevski

At a press conference in the southeastern town of Strumica on Wednesday, the opposition Social Democratic party, SDSM presented more tapes that point to election fraud on the part of government officials and their associates.

Stevo Pendarovski, the defeated Social Democrat candidate in the 2014 presidential elections, said President Ivanov should return his mandate and quit because he owed his win to the same election tricks that the government had used to win general elections.

The Democratic Union for Integration, DUI, which is part of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski's ruling coalition, said on Monday that its leader had not discussed with the Macedonian premier the possibility of its rival, the opposition Democratic Party of Albanians, DPA, joining the government which is currently under fire over mass wiretapping allegations.

Speaking in front of thousands of supporters of his main ruling centre-right VMRO DPMNE party in Skopje on Sunday, the embattled Gruevski repeated his claims that criminal allegations made against him by the country's opposition have been "created" by unnamed foreign intelligence services and their domestic collaborators in order to destabilize Macedonia.

The opposition Social Democrats held a press conference on Sunday to reveal a tenth batch of alleged wiretapped conversations, claiming that they show Gruevski's interests in acquiring land for construction land in the capital Skopje and in altering legal permits so that it can be more profitable.

Macedonia's embattled Prime Minister has called a rally of the ruling VMRO DPMNE party in Skopje's Boris Trajkovski sports arena on Sunday when he and other speakers will address opposition demands for the government to resign.

Top officials from Macedonia's ruling VMRO-DPMNE party did every unlawful activity they could think of in order to win the local election in 2013 in the municipality of Centar in Skopje, the mayor of the municipality, Andrej Zernovski, claimed on Thursday.

A number of Western officials have voiced their concern over the recent developments in Macedonia which include a tense political battle between the government and the opposition.

A probe has been launched into Macedonian opposition leader Zoran Zaev's alleged involvement in a bribery scheme, the country's Interior Ministry has said.

Zoran Zaev, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, SDSM, has called on people to join the party when it reveals what it promises will be the "most significant, most insolent and most outrageous examples" of electoral fraud committed by Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and his ruling VMRO DPMNE party.