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Can this coalition be a pretext of maybe a possible new war in Macedonia or major disturbances?

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Can this coalition be a pretext of maybe a possible new war in Macedonia or major disturbances?

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Lawrence Butler, US Ambassador to Macedonia: (unintelligible) Macedonians chose ballots over bullets and it’s up to Branko Crvenkovski and the government that he pulls together to deliver the promise that was made during the campaign to the voters. And he does not have much time to do that. (unintelligible) Branko strikes me as a man who, having been prime minister for six years, having been fired from office in 1998. Hristo Ivanovski, reporter: Democratically. Lawrence Butler, US Ambassador to Macedonia: Democratically, but he was fired. This is how — in the United States we say (unintelligible) usually have to give the voters a reason to fire them. In the Balkans, I’d flip that around to say they (unintelligible) have to give the voter a reason to keep them around for four more years. I think — just — in fact it’s a different political and economic situation in their respective countries. In other words, Branko’s going to have to explain, in two years’ time, why SDSM and LDP and w

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