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{{Short description|Macedonian political party}} {{Infobox political party | country = North Macedonia | native_name = ВМРО - Народна Партија | logo = VMRO_Peoples_Party_logo.png | leader = Ljubčo Georgievski | colorcode = {{party color|VMRO – People's Party}} | foundation = 4 July 2004 | split = VMRO–DPMNE | dissolved = | ideology = {{ubl|National conservatism<ref name="PEE">{{cite web|url-status=unfit|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/macedonia.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612071258/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/macedonia.html|archive-date=12 June 2010|year=2008|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|title=Macedonia|website=Parties and Elections in Europe}}</ref>|Christian democracy<ref name="PEE"/>|Pro-Europeanism|Atlanticism}} | position = {{nowrap|Centre-right<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Nacevska|first1=Elena|last2=Fink-Hafner|first2=Danica|date=2019|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333405888|title=Change in the party system from liberal to ethnic-based polarisation{{spaced ndash}}the case of Macedonia|journal=Teorija in Praksa|volume=56|issue=1/2019|pages=7–29|quote=Since 2002, the Macedonian political bloc has become more fragmented as small parties have emerged, such as the centre-right oriented VMRO-NP (VMRO People's Party) as a fraction of VMRO-DPMNE (founded by the former leader of VMRO-DPMNE) and the centre-left NSDP (New Social-Democratic Party) as an offshoot of SDSM.}}</ref> to right-wing<ref name="Stojarova2013">{{cite book|last=Stojarová|first=Vera|date=2013|title=The far right in the Balkans|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-8973-2|pages=37, 50, 134-135}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://europeelects.eu/european-union/northmacedonia/|title=North Macedonia|website=Europe Elects|access-date=16 July 2020}}</ref>}} | national = For a European Future | european = European Conservatives and Reformists Party (regional partner, until 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-07 |title=About - ECR Party |url=https://ecrparty.eu/about/ |access-date=2025-02-21 |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107032142/https://ecrparty.eu/about/ |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> | international = Centrist Democrat International (formerly) | seats1_title = Parliament | seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|120|{{party color|VMRO – People's Party}}}} | colours = Red, Yellow, Black | headquarters = Skopje | website = {{url|http://www.vmro-np.org.mk}} }} The '''Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – People's Party''' ({{langx|mk|Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Народна Партија|Vnatrešna makedonska revolucionerna organizacija – Narodna Partija}}), shortened as '''VMRO – People's Party''' ({{langx|mk|ВMPO–Народна Партија|VMRO – Narodna Partija|link=no}}) and '''VMRO–NP''' ({{langx|mk|ВMPO–НП|link=no}}), is a national-conservative<ref name="PEE"/> political party in North Macedonia, founded by the former Prime Minister Ljubčo Georgievski, who split from the VMRO–DPMNE. The VMRO–NP was founded in Skopje on 4 July 2004. Vesna Janevska was elected as the party's first chairwoman. It is among the smaller parties of the country.<ref>{{cite book |editor1=Robert Hudson |editor2=Ivan Dodovski |title=Macedonia’s Long Transition: From Independence to the Prespa Agreement and Beyond |date=2023 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=9783031207730 |page=115}}</ref>

== History == VMRO–NP was founded on 4 July 2004 by former VMRO–DPMNE leader Ljubčo Georgievski due to personal and ideological differences with his successor Nikola Gruevski. Vesna Janevska became the party's first president.<ref name="Stojarova2013" /> In the 2006 parliamentary election, VMRO–NP won 6.1% of the vote and 6 seats in the Assembly. In the 2011 parliamentary election, VMRO–NP received 28,500 votes (2.51%), losing all of its seats.<ref>{{cite web |title=Head of Macedonian Rightist Party Defects |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2012/02/03/macedonian-rightist-party-splits/ |website=Balkan Insight |date=3 February 2012}}</ref> In April 2007, Gjorgji Trendafilov became the party's leader.<ref>{{cite web |title=Macedonian Party Split over Support for Government |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2007/11/06/macedonian-party-split-over-support-for-government/ |website=Balkan Insight |date=6 November 2007}}</ref> VMRO–NP remained an extra-parliamentary party until the 2020 parliamentary election, when it participated in the We Can alliance led by the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and won one seat. Georgievski succeeded to the position of party president on 26 February 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Љубчо Георгиевски избран за в.д. претседател на ВМРО-Народна партија |url=https://www.slobodnaevropa.mk/a/24474441.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |language=mk |date=5 February 2012}}</ref>

In the 2024 parliamentary elections, the party participated in a coalition led by SDSM and lost one seat.

== Ideology == According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, its party program resembles VMRO–DPMNE's program.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Conservative Party Founded In Macedonia |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1053778.html |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=9 July 2004}}</ref> The VMRO–NP's statute allowed dual membership in both parties. The party identifies itself as a right-wing conservative and patriotic party, with a Christian democratic orientation. It supports the Euro-Atlantic integration of North Macedonia.<ref name="Stojarova2013" />

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==External links== *[http://www.vmro-np.org.mk Official web site of the VMRO–NP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717040725/http://www.vmro-np.org.mk/ |date=2006-07-17 }} {{Macedonian political parties}}

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