The Macedonian opposition party SDSM stated that the ruling VMRO-DPMNE is behind the gathering of citizens of Kumanovo in which support was given to Aleksandar Vučić.
They say that the gathering was arranged last week in Skopje, at a meeting between the Vice President of the Macedonian Government, Ivan Stoiljković, and the President of the Serbian Progressive Party, Miloš Vučević.
"Nova ekonomija" writes that the association "Peace, harmony, stability" which was the organizer of the meeting, and according to publicly available data, was awarded money in April of this year at the competition of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia for co-financing projects intended for Serb organizations from the region.
It is stated that the administration for cooperation with the diaspora and Serbs in the region has allocated 400.000 dinars to the Association "Mir, Harmony, Stability" for the project "Orthodoxy and spirituality connect us - Under the cover of prayer".
VMRO-DPMNE denied being behind the organization of the gathering in Kumanovo.
The representative of the "Peace, harmony, stability" association, Vesna Nikolić, said that it was a peaceful rally in support of the Serbian president, B92 reported.
The gathering in Kumanovo was held On May 23, the same day that a gathering of students and citizens was held at Slavia in Belgrade. Several hundred citizens carried the slogans "We are Vučić", "Kumanovo for Vučić" and "Skopje for Vučić", as well as the flags of Serbia and North Macedonia.
Media sympathetic to the authorities in Serbia reported on "beautiful scenes" and talked about the "geopolitical weight" of that gathering.
Source: FoNet
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