The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (Macedonian: Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Демократска партија за македонско национално единство), abbreviated as VMRO-DPMNE (Macedonian: ВМРО–ДПМНЕ), is a conservative[6][7] and the main centre-right[8][9][10] to right-wing[11]political party in North Macedonia.
It was established as a nationalist and anti-communist party. It has later rebranded itself as Christian-democratic.[4][7][12] The party claims that their goals and objectives are to express the tradition of the Macedonian people on whose political struggle and concepts it is based.[13][14] Nevertheless, it has formed multiple coalition governments with ethnic minority parties.[15] Under the leadership of Ljubčo Georgievski in the 1990s, the party supported Macedonian independence from Socialist Yugoslavia, and led a policy of closer relationships with Bulgaria.[16] Georgievski left VMRO-DPMNE and formed the VMRO – People's Party in 2004.[17]
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^Eben Friedman (2004). "Party System, Electoral Systems and Minority Representation in the Republic of Macedonia from 1990 to 2002". European Yearbook of Minority Issues: 2002-2003. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 231, 234–236. ISBN9789004138391.
^Stefan Troebst (1997). "An Ethnic War That Did Not Take Place: Macedonia, Its Minorities and Its Neighbours in the 1990s". In David Turton (ed.). War and Ethnicity: Global Connections and Local Violence. University of Rochester Press. p. 78. ISBN9781878822826.
^Dimitar Bechev (2019). Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 124–125, 149–151. ISBN9781538119624.
^Arianna Piacentini (2019). "Make Macedonia Great Again! The New Face of Skopje and the Macedonians' identity dilemma". In Evinç Doğan (ed.). Reinventing Eastern Europe: Imaginaries, Identities and Transformations. London: Transnational Press. p. 87. ISBN978-1910781876.
^Tom Lansford, ed. (2019). Political Handbook of the World 2018-2019. CQ Press. p. 968. ISBN978-1544327136.
Irena Rajcinovska Pandeva (2022). "North Macedonia and Russia: An Ambiguous Relationship". In Michael Kaeding; Johannes Pollak; Paul Schmidt (eds.). Russia and the Future of Europe. Springer International Publishing. pp. 145–148. ISBN9783030956479.
Tomáš Vlček; Martin Jirušek (2019). Russian Oil Enterprises in Europe: Investments and Regional Influence. Springer. p. 143. ISBN978-3030198398.
^Irena Rajcinovska Pandeva (2021). "North Macedonia: The Name in Exchange for European Union Membership?". In Michael Kaeding; Johannes Pollak; Paul Schmidt (eds.). Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe. Springer Nature. p. 107. ISBN9783030412722.