After a short break the leaders of largest ruling and opposition parties VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM, Nikola Gruevski and Branko Crvenkovski respectively, resumed their meeting on Tuesday, aimed at overcoming the open issues in light of the early parliamentary elections and resumption of political dialogue.

The talks thus far have only tackled changes to the Electoral Code, with SDSM holding to its initial demands and turning the prerequisite for unfreezing 'Pero Nakov' - based media accounts into a strict request.

The opposition party wants for OSCE, ODIHR recommendations to be incorporated in the electoral legislation. It also refers to the party amendments to the Electoral Code in regard to guaranteed quotas of parliamentary seats for representatives of smaller ethnic communities and for the electoral boards to be composed of party members.

The party officials say SDSM MPs will return to the Parliament after meeting of their demands, namely cleansing of the Voters' List, adopting the changes to the Electoral Code and a kind of law or codex on the government's media campaigns, unfreezing of 'Pero Nakov-based media accounts.

Crvenkovski also asked for a larger meeting to be convened, saying that leaders of other parliamentary parties should take part in the talks on the election process.

Representatives of the ruling party say VMRO-PMNE proposed an agenda of activities that should be initiated in the upcoming period for meeting the opposition's demands, namely for the parliament session on election of new chair of the State Election Commission (SEC) to be convened for tomorrow, something that should bring back the opposition deputies to the legislative body. If it doesn't happen, it is possible for the parliamentary majority to elect a SEC chair alone.

VMRO-DPMNE also proposes for the changes to the Electoral Code to be adopted and for a Voters' List commission to be set up tomorrow.

The ruling party reaffirmed the fact that there was no law across the globe that promotes an equitable allocation of funds for the media campaigns. However, in order to meet the opposition demand, the Government will put those campaigns on stand-by from the day of the Parliament dissolution.

VMRO-DPMNE holds to its position that political parties, the Parliament and Government are not entitled to interfere in the 'Spider Web' case, which is in the hands of the judiciary.

The ruling party proposes for the Parliament to be dissolved on March 31, 2011.

Gruevski invited Crvenkovski for a meeting last Friday, saying the initiative is in the interest of the coming electoral process and state priorities.