22 10 2007 Skopje_ Macedonia’s former parliamentary speaker, Ljupco Jordanovski, was elected president of the newly-formed Party of Free Democrats, PSD on Sunday.
The party, which intends to act as a centrist group, has already been joined by a deputy from the main opposition Social-Democrats, the SDSM.
Jordanovski himself was previously also a member of that party.
“We have contributed all too much to the building of the SDSM”, Jordanovski told media on Sunday after the PSD’s inaugural meeting.
“We think that the efforts we have put in there, this way will be more useful for the good of the entire country”, Jordanovski said.
The PSD is the second party formed mainly by former members of SDSM.
The first of the splinter groups, the New Social-Democratic Party, NSDP, headed by Tito Petkovski, was set up in 2006.
It joined the governing coalition, led by the centre-right VMRO-DPMNE, after elections later in the same year.
In their statutes, the free democrats allow the formation of factions within their party, in a departure from the practice of the SDSM, which they resented.
Former Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski, who is an SDSM deputy, and Esad Rahic, who has recently been expelled from that party, due to his public opposition to its policies, did not attend the inaugural meeting.
Many expected to see them there together with Jordanovski as they have been considered the most prominent opponents of SDSM leader Radmila Sekerinska over the past year. (Birn)
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