Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski is surprised that the opposition SDSM, as a party which believes to score a victory at the forthcoming elections, does not accept a model for the winner to acquire additional 17 seats at the parliament in favor of setting up a stable government.

"Yesterday the opposition instantly rejected the proposal for the victorious party at the elections to get additional 17 MPs, which will lead to forming a stable government. I wonder why they do that, why the party which declares to be victorious is doing that. We are offering them a possibility to get plus 17 deputies after the victory to set up a stable government. They refuse the proposal, so it is up to citizens to assess whether they do not believe that they will win or there is some other reason," Gruevski told reporters Monday after setting a sports hall in State University of Tetovo into work.

He said he saw no connection between a majority voting system, proposed by ruling VMRO-DPMNE, and possible census.

"I don't see a connection between a majority voting model and a census, or between the other proportional model and the census. Conducting a census would be good for both models, but everything is going well without such process. There is no correlation between the census and the voting model. It is just a groundless excuse," Gruevski said.