United for Macedonia

United for Macedonia Обединети за Македонија Të bashkuar për Maqedoninë
President	Ljube Boškoski
Founded	May 29, 2009
Headquarters	Skopje
Youth wing	United Youth for Macedonia
Ideology	Conservatism Anti-communism Economic liberalism Pro-EU
Political position	Centre-right
National affiliation	Coalition of Your Macedonia
Colours	Yellow, black, blue
Website
om.org.mk
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United for Macedonia (Macedonian: Обединети за Македонија, Obedineti za Makedonija; Albanian: Të bashkuar për Maqedoninë) is a political party in North Macedonia. It was founded by Ljube Boškoski, a former interior minister and former member of the conservative VMRO-DPMNE.

History

After having been acquitted of all charges against him at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Ljube Boškoski returned to Macedonia on 11 July 2008. After disagreements with the new leadership of his party, VMRO-DPMNE, he decided to participate in the 2009 presidential elections as an independent candidate and at the end of May 2009 formed his own party, United for Macedonia.

In the 2011 parliamentary elections, United for Macedonia won 17,081 votes, but did not win a single seat. Then the party entered into a coalition with VMRO-NP and Dignity under the name "VMRO for Macedonia" and won roughly 25,000 votes in the 2016 parliamentary elections, but again did not win a parliamentary seat.

In the 2020 parliamentary elections, United for Macedonia is in the broad coalition We can and is part of the government.

In the 2024 parliamentary elections, United for Macedonia is in the broad coalition with VMRO-DPMNE for Your Macedonia.

President of the Youth organization United Youth for Macedonia is Gjorgji Stankovski.

Ideology

According to the party itself, its ideology is European, progressive, center-right, people's party, because it accepts European standards and sees the future of North Macedonia in Europe and the party in the family of center-right, conservative parties. The party cooperates with the European Conservatives and Reformists Party.