SDSM is in turmoil after a group of former high level party officials, including a sitting member of Parliament, held a private meeting discussing the future of the party. The meeting was seen as open rebuke of leader Venko Filipce and the Zaev faction he belongs to, with tacit endorsement from former top party officials such as Branko Crvenovski, Radmila Sekerinska and Stevo Pendarovski.
The meeting titled “conversations about the future” was held earlier this week in a hotel in Skopje under the Chattam house rules. The moderator was Crvenovski’s former chief of staff Igor Ivanovski – Shema and it included former Defense Minister and current SDSM member of Parliament Slavjanka Petrovska, as well as other party officials often critical of Filipce and sidelined by his team. Monika Zajkova, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party and also a member of Parliament elected through the SDSM led list, was also present.
With every passing day you are pushing people further toward creating a new party. Whether deliberately or not, this is dividing the opposition even further, said Vasko Kicevski, a party official close to Filipce’s predecessor as SDSM leader and former Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski. Some of the participants in this meeting, as well as officials involved in a Skopje faction that already broke with Filipce, are seen as close to former party leader Sekerinska, who currently occupies a high profile post as Deputy Secretary General of NATO. Former President Pendarovski has also made comments critical of Filipce and the Zaev faction which he never sat too comfortably with.
SDSM reacted with vitriol aimed toward Petar Arsovski, a political strategist close to the party, accusing him of being a “sellout”. “They are betraying the party and directly serving Mickoski to weaken the opposition block. The same happened with the ZNAM project and now with these new attempts for ‘platforms’ and ‘new beginnings’ which in reality can only mean division of the opposition from within”, SDSM said in a statement. SDSM is also attacking journalist Branko Geroski, another former political and media supporter of the party, who damaged the Zaev faction immensely with his reporting on the corruption of Zaev’s loyalist special prosecutor Katica Janeva.
Do they intend to dismiss me from the party? Or Slavjanka I’ve been an SDSM party member since 1994 and I will remain one to the end of my life. A person who is not even associated with SDSM can’t do that to me. I want to send them a warning, to ask them to stop with these discreditations and the unhinged constructions they are hurling at people and their families, said Igor Ivanovski, calling SDSM out for its media campaign against the party officials who attended his meeting.
The post Split in SDSM causes Filipce to nervously lash out against sidelined party officials appeared first on Republika English.
Split in SDSM causes Filipce to nervously lash out against sidelined party officials 2026 IUSTITIA.BG – Investigations 2009-2025 2026-07-04 21:40:18 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law
