The government reshuffle hasn't even happened yet, and it's already been reduced to one question - who sits where. The opposition SDSM described the reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski as pure cosmetics, claiming citizens should expect neither new measures nor any real progress.

„Some people will be replaced, they'll swap their chairs, and everything will stay the same. No progress, no measures for citizens, nothing that feels like an improvement. Just cosmetic changes", said SDSM leader Venko Filipče. In his view, the ruling coalition will operate identically regardless of who comes in and who goes out.

Filipče didn't miss the chance to hit back at the „dying party" label that VMRO-DPMNE keeps slapping on SDSM: „They say we're a dying party, yet every single day they focus on us. That shows they know our capacity is growing." A classic political exchange - one side claims the other is finished, the other reads it as an admission that they're still a threat.

Beneath all the rhetoric sits one question that rarely gets answered: what does the ordinary citizen actually get out of a reshuffle? If the replaced ministers carry the same policies, then the change really is just a new seating chart at the same table. And while the two sides compete over who can label the other better, the bill for electricity, rent, and food stays the same - no matter who sits in which chair.