North Macedonia
POLITICAL PARTY
VMRO-DPMNE
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity
in presidency and parliamentary seats
in presidency and parliamentary seats
North Macedonia
in presidency and parliamentary seats
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, the Vnatrešna makedonska revolucionerna organizacija – Demokratska partija za makedonsko nacionalno edinstvo (VMRO-DPMNE) candidate, won the 2024 presidential election. The party's opposition coalition, Your Macedonia, won the 2024 parliamentary election, securing 43.32% of the vote and 58 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. In the 2019 presidential election, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova had lost to the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) candidate. In the 2020 parliamentary election, VMRO-DPMNE's Renewal coalition finished second behind SDSM's We Can coalition (46 seats, 35.89% of the vote) with 44 seats and 34.57% of the vote.
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June 23, 2025
"[P]eople have to stand up and defend Macedonian national interests, and not stay at home in their slippers.”
Former party leader (2003–2017), former Prime Minister of Macedonia (2006–2016)
Nikola Gruevski
MOST INFLUENTIAL PARTY MEMBER
Nikola Gruevski
Nikola Gruevski
Former party leader (2003–2017), former Prime Minister of Macedonia (2006–2016)
"[P]eople have to stand up and defend Macedonian national interests, and not stay at home in their slippers.”
February 2017
Vlada.mk, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
PAGE CITATIONS:
North Macedonian Presidency, Round 2, May 8, 2024, lFES Election Guide, last updated May 21, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4443/.
“North Macedonia: Assembly of the Republic,” IPU Parline, May 8, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, data.ipu.org/parliament/MK/MK-LC01/election/MK-LC01-E20240508/.
North Macedonian Assembly, May 8, 2024, IFES Election Guide, last updated December 20, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4322/.
"Stevo Pendarovski wins North Macedonia’s presidential election," Al Jazeera, May 6, 2019, www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/5/6/stevo-pendarovski-wins-north-macedonias-presidential-election.
North Macedonian Assembly, July 15, 2020, IFES Election Guide, last updated November 1, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3314/.
“North Macedonia: Assembly of the Republic,” July 15, 2020, IPU Parline, accessed June 23, 2025, data.ipu.org/parliament/MK/MK-LC01/election/MK-LC01-E20200715/.
“North Macedonia: Assembly of the Republic,” IPU Parline, May 8, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, data.ipu.org/parliament/MK/MK-LC01/election/MK-LC01-E20240508/.
North Macedonian Assembly, May 8, 2024, IFES Election Guide, last updated December 20, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/4322/.
"Stevo Pendarovski wins North Macedonia’s presidential election," Al Jazeera, May 6, 2019, www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/5/6/stevo-pendarovski-wins-north-macedonias-presidential-election.
North Macedonian Assembly, July 15, 2020, IFES Election Guide, last updated November 1, 2024, accessed June 23, 2025, www.electionguide.org/elections/id/3314/.
“North Macedonia: Assembly of the Republic,” July 15, 2020, IPU Parline, accessed June 23, 2025, data.ipu.org/parliament/MK/MK-LC01/election/MK-LC01-E20200715/.
QUOTE CITATION:
Nikola Gruevski quoted in Valerie Hopkins, "What Happened in Macedonia, and Why," Atlantic, April 28, 2017, www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/macedonia-parliament-zaev-nationalist-violence-eu-europe/524733.
TO CITE:
"VMRO-DPMNE," Great Replacement Parties, ChainofIdeasBook.com, [access date], www.chainofideasbook.com/country/MK.
