In an open letter to Hristijan Mickoski, former UBK Director Saso Mijalkov, who was recently excluded from VMRO-DPMNE, accuses party leader Hristijan Mickoski of suffering an embarrassment internationally by sister parties that are part of the EPP because of the fact that representatives of those that had supported the name deal and had been excluded from VMRO-DPMNE were invited to the Congress in Helsinki. According to him, Mickoski is a fake patriot and hypocrite. As Mijalkov adds, Mickoski should explain to both VMRO-DPMNE’s members and Macedonia’s citizens what his pledges for constructiveness are that he promised to the EU’s Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, Johannes Hahn. In response, VMRO-DPMNE says Mijalkov is trying to defocus the public from the current political developments.