VMRO-DPMNE is attacking SDSM and Venko Filipche for spending five days celebrating Peter Magyar's victory in Hungary. The irony: SDSM's sister party in Hungary - the social democrats - fell below the threshold and didn't enter parliament. Meaning: they celebrated someone else's victory while their own ideological kin lost.

"Instead of reforming, SDS and Filipche, following their failed PR team's direction, focus on elections and conditions in other countries," VMRO-DPMNE stated. They claim SDSM avoids analyzing "their own debacle of nearly 130,000 votes" in the last Macedonian elections.

Filipche didn't respond to the criticism. But VMRO-DPMNE's logic isn't without holes: if the Orban-Vucic parallel doesn't work (as even Serbian analysts admit), why is the Orban-VMRO parallel relevant? Both sides look for lessons in foreign elections that suit them, and ignore those that don't. An old Balkan tradition.