The DPA has already been warned in the first round of the presidential election, when a considerable number of Albanians voted for the DA's Vasil Tupurkovski and his economic recovery program.
This was enough to alarm the two Albanian political parties to prevent the further erosion of "national" votes towards the Macedonian version of "Rainbow" coalition of Macedonians, Albanians, Turks and Romas that make up the DA.
A year ago, when it defeated the SDSM government that had run Macedonia since independence, this government welcomed the arrival of the last -- 10 years late -- train from Berlin. After completing the former communist government of the SDSM, it remains to be seen if it will have the strength to crush the wall of ethnic distrust.
Arsim Zekolli is contributing editor at the Albanian-language newspaper Fakti.
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