On Thursday, SDSM leader Filipche continued his fierce criticism of the 12:05 platform. As he said, they should either help and get involved in party activities, or get out of the way.
“Well, they nearly buried the party. It was on its last breath. We have all been working hard, consolidating over the past two years, but now they are going to tell us how it should be done? When are they saying it? When we are exposing the government’s biggest scandals”, Filipche said.
He also rejected the announced plan being offered by the platform for changes within SDSM.
Later on Thursday, in an interview with Sitel, Filipche said that calling Mickoski an “idiot” — for which he was fiercely criticized by VMRO-DPMNE — was not an insult, claiming it was part of the narrative that the PM himself had introduced into political culture.