Nikola Gruevski
| Nikola Gruevski Никола Груевски |
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| 6th Prime Minister of Macedonia | |
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In office 27 August 2006 – 18 January 2016 |
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| President |
Branko Crvenkovski Gjorge Ivanov |
| Preceded by | Vlado Bučkovski |
| Succeeded by | Emil Dimitriev |
| Minister of Finance | |
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In office 27 December 1999 – 11 January 2002 |
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| Prime Minister | Ljubčo Georgievski |
| Preceded by | Boris Stojmenov |
| Succeeded by | Petar Gosev |
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31 August 1970 Skopje, Yugoslavia |
| Political party | VMRO-DPMNE |
| Spouse(s) | Suzana Arbutina (2001–2005) Borkica Gruevska (2007–present) |
| Children | Anastasija Sofija |
| Alma mater |
University of Bitola University of Skopje |
| Religion | Macedonian Orthodoxy |
Nikola Gruevski (Macedonian: Никола Груевски [ˈnikɔɫa ˈɡruefski]; born 31 August 1970) is a Macedonian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 27 August 2006 to 18 January 2016, and has led the ruling VMRO-DPMNE party since May 2003. He was Minister of Finance in the VMRO-DPMNE government led by Ljubčo Georgievski until September 2002.
Under the Pržino Agreement mediated by the European Union, Gruevski agreed to resign and left his post on January 18, 2016.
Born in Skopje in 1970, Gruevski was brought up in a family that was neither privileged nor poor. His father worked in furniture and design and his mother was a nurse. After his parents’ divorce, he was raised by his mother. At the age of four, however, she went to work in Libya, like thousands of other Yugoslav citizens, and took him with her. After their return Gruevski completed primary and secondary education in Skopje. Having graduated from the Faculty of Economics at St. Clement of Ohrid University of Bitola in 1994 (where he dabbled in amateur theatre and boxing) he entered the nascent finance sector, and was the first person to trade on Skopje's stock exchange. In 1996 he also acquired qualifications for the international capital market from a London Securities Institute. On 12 December 2006, he obtained a master's degree from the Faculty of Economics at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje. Gruevski founded the Brokerage Association of Macedonia in 1998 and made the first transaction on the .
Gruevski divorced his first wife and married again in May 2007 to Borkica Gruevska with whom he has two daughters: Anastasija and Sofija.
Gruevski's paternal grandparents stem from the Ottoman Macedonia village of Krushoradi, where his grandfather Nikola Grouios (1911–1940) was born. Until the official Greek annexation after the Second Balkan War in 1913, it was under the jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Exarchate. The Greek administration later led assimilative anti-Bulgarian campaign, changing the names of the local villagers to the corresponding Greek names. The village itself was renamed by the Greek authorities to Achlada in 1926. Gruevski's grandfather fought in the Greco-Italian War, where he lost his life. His name is mentioned on the war memorial in Achlada among the names of the locals who were killed during World War II. Years later, during the Greek Civil War, Gruevski's grandmother and father, fled north to what was then Yugoslav Macedonia, where they changed their family name to Gruevski in order to gain citizenship through assimilation, as was the Yugoslav policy at the time.
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