Mickoski re-elected as president of VMRO DPMNE

The Prime Minister of North Macedonia and leader of the ruling VMRO-DPMNE, Hristijan Mickoski, was re-elected as the party’s president today.

804 out of 817 delegates present voted for the re-election of Hristijan Mickoski, who was the only candidate for leader of the largest Macedonian party, the conservative VMRO DPMNE, at the 18th congress of that party, held in Kavadarci.

After his re-election, Mickoski emphasized that he would work to create a system that would last and said that in the next six months, there would be a structural repositioning and personnel refresh of the party, from the Executive Board to the municipal and local boards.

“VMRO-DPMNE is a people’s party and an idea that is passed down through generations. This country must learn to believe in itself, and not be dependent on what someone from the outside will say or allow us to do. Macedonia can only succeed if it sets its own goals, if it believes in itself and builds its own future,” Mickoski wrote on Facebook.

The 48-year-old Mickoski took over the party leadership in December 2017 as the choice of then-leader Nikola Gruevski, who later fled to asylum in Hungary to avoid serving a prison sentence.

This is Mickoski’s third, and according to the party statute, last, term as president of VMRO-DPMNE.

At the congress, which was held under the motto “A Vision That Builds the State – For the Generation to Come 2030-2”, two political documents were adopted: the Strategy 2025–2030 and the Doctrine.

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