The Macedonian surveillance scandal that brought down a government

Since 2015, the small Balkan country of Macedonia has been engulfed in a political crisis that has only just reached a resolution. At its centre is a scandal caused by the discovery of hundreds of thousands of illegally wiretapped communications, which has significantly dented the popularity of the country’s largest right-wing party – VMRO-DPMNE – and eventually ended its 10-year reign of power.