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The sign reads - "Farewell Nikola" -- Nikola Gruevski, the head of VMRO-DPMNE
VMRO-DPMNE
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The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity, 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. |