- President Gjorge Ivanov signed the decision on reduction of former ESM director Lambe Arnaudov's four-year prison sentence and this decision was published in the Government Gazette. A few hours later this decision was withdrawn. Arnaudov's name will be erased from the list of 61 individuals that the president decided to pardon on the occasion of the national holiday Ilinden for, as the President's Cabinet informed, "technical oversight". <!--break-->SDSM reacted sharply to the initial information that Arnaudov's sentence had been reduced, asking whether this decision was made by the president or whether it was made at the order of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. The ruling VMRO-DPMNE stressed that Arnaudov's prison sentence was not reduced and he was not pardoned.