VMRO-DPMNE
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Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity
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| Abbreviation | VMRO-DPMNE |
| Leader | Nikola Gruevski |
| Founder | Dragan Bogdanovski, Goran Jakovlevski, Ljubčo Georgievski |
| Founded | June 17, 1990 (as Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) |
| Headquarters | Skopje |
| Youth wing | Youth Force Union |
| Ideology |
Macedonian nationalism Anti-communism Conservatism Christian democracy National conservatism Economic liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right to Right-wing |
| European affiliation | European People's Party (associate member) |
| International affiliation | International Democrat Union |
| Colours | Red, Black, Gold |
| Macedonian Parliament |
51 / 120
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| Municipalities |
52 / 80
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| www.vmro-dpmne.org.mk | |
The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (Macedonian: Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Демократска партија за македонско национално единство), simplified as VMRO-DPMNE, is one of the two major Macedonian parties, the other being the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). The party has proclaimed itself as Christian democratic, but has been described as nationalist. Under the leadership of Ljubčo Georgievski in its beginning, the party supported Macedonian independence from Socialist Yugoslavia. The party has been leading a pro-European and pro-NATO policy in recent years, but it does not agree to the country's name changing. VMRO's support is based on ethnic Macedonians with some exceptions; it claims that "the party's goals and objectives express the tradition of the Macedonian people on whose political struggle and concepts it is based." Nevertheless, it has formed multiple coalition governments with ethnic minority parties.
The first section of the acronym 'VMRO' which forms the party's name derives from the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, a rebel movement formed in 1893. After undergoing various transformations, the original organization was suppressed in the 1930s, at which time the territory of the current Republic of Macedonia was part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The VMRO–DPMNE claims ideological descent from the old VMRO.
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