The opposition SDSM, through its Anti-Corruption Team, has come out with new accusations of a tender network from which, as they claim, the same firms always profit. According to their allegations, behind the government's million-euro contracts stands a system in which certain companies constantly land lucrative state deals - and the question they pose is simple: who's going to answer for this?

The figures they cite are not small. According to a member of the party's executive board, the firm „Mastef" won 93 tenders worth around 18.3 million euros. In a second round, the opposition pointed to the company „Lendi Grup", which allegedly concluded 74 contracts worth 17.6 million euros in just two years. The words they used were sharp - that the governing coalition is doling out million-euro tenders „like cake."

Here is the place for healthy skepticism - on all sides. These are the allegations of a political party that was in power until recently and that itself faced identical accusations from the other side for years. When the opposition counts other people's tenders, it's worth asking how similarly it counted while it was awarding them itself. Still, the figures are concrete and verifiable through public procurement - and precisely for that reason they mustn't be dismissed as mere party rhetoric.

Macedonian politics has for decades worked on the same pattern: some award tenders and claim everything is legal, others count and cry scandal, and when the seats are swapped - the roles change, the firms often stay the same. Will this network be exposed before a competent authority, or will it remain just another episode in the endless shootout? The citizen who pays for all those tenders with their taxes deserves an answer, not another press conference.