LIVE: Pro-government protest takes place in Skopje

The Macedonian governing party VMRO-DPMNE is due to hold a counter-protest in front of the parliament building on May 18 after around 50,000 anti-government protesters gathered there on Sunday. The government party claims that Macedonia is currently facing ’’a directed attack aiming at [the] destabilisation’’ of the country. The opposition leader Zoran Zaev stated that 4,600 people will remain in the camp in front of Macedonian Parliament until their demand for the resignation of PM Gruevski and the governm