More than 10,000 people on Sunday rallied in central Skopje demanding that the government of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski step down, an AFP reporter witnessed.

Waving Macedonian and Albanian flags, opposition protesters chanted "Victory! Victory!" at the demonstration, the culmination of months of wrangling between Gruevski and his centre-left opponents that has already sparked clashes on the streets of the capital Skopje.