Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia

SNSM(Macedonian Cyrillic: Српска напредна странка во Македонија; СНСМ) is a legally recognized and conclusive to 2010, an active political subject in the Republic of Macedonia (platform and program work, public prominence of leadership and party

Political party

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in general, some of it reflected in the media), which has a basic conservative-libertarian

Libertarian conservatism

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political platform, the core base of its way of action, which is, given the specifics of its geographic setting and local idiosyncrasies

Idiosyncrasy

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, modified both by ad hoc

Ad hoc

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wide-umbrella approach in cooperation with political and other subjects of various ideological principles, platforms and programs.

SNSM shares a variety of contacts with Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

and other NGO in Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...

, Republic of Serbia, Montenegro

Montenegro

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, Republic of Srpska and elsewhere and with the core party, Republic of Serbia-centered SNS

Serbian Progressive Party

The Serbian Progressive Party is a right-wing political party in Serbia.-History:The Serbian Progressive Party formed as a group of breakaway MPs in parliament from the Serbian Radical Party led by Tomislav Nikolić over disagreements about the direction of the party. Its founding congress was...

, although from the legal aspects which applies in local jurisdiction, it is a separate and independent political subject, subject to the Constitution and legislative of the Republic of Macedonia http://snsmakedonija.blog.rs/blog/snsmakedonija http://www.srbi.org.mk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=77&lang=sr.

SNSM (commonly referred colloquially

Colloquialism

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only by the acronym "СНС" - "SNS") also puts strong premium on specifics of both chronic and acute problems of re-establishing and fortification of Serbdom

Serbdom

Serbdom is an ambiguous term used by ethnic Serbs to denote a type of patriotism or solidarity of the Serbian people. It is distinguished from Serbian nationalism by lack of a political agenda and absence of antagonistic or aggressive attitudes...

(individual consciousness

Consciousness

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of oneself

Oneself

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as an ethic Serb, in community of other Serbs

Serbs

). The main principle of SNSM is Serbian identity-politics and national empowerment as a hitherto marginalized ethnic group

Ethnic group

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in Republic of Macedonia by means of preservation of local Serbian heritage and tradition

Tradition

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, emphasizing the multi-ethnic character of the country, advancement of organizational and materialized forms of aid to revival of Serbian academic studies

Serbian culture

Serbian culture refers to the culture of Serbia and of ethnic Serbs.The Serbian culture starts with that of the South Slavic peoples that lived in the Balkans. Early on, Serbs may have been influenced by the Paleo-Balkan peoples...

, sustaining of the Serbian language

Serbian language

Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....

and Serbian literacy

Serbian literature

Serbian literature refers to literature written in Serbian and/or in Serbia.The history of Serbian literature begins with theological works from the 10th- and 11th centuries, developing in the 13th century by Saint Sava and his disciples...

as well as aiming to higher representation of Serbian pupils in Republic of Macedonia's schooling system.

The party also rejects Anti-Slavic identity revisionism in Republic of Macedonia. To this, the practical issues of economic, infrastructural and technical problems facing Serbian community in Republic of Macedonia, with regard to local and municipal material development as well as at the level of the country

Country

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in general are further goals.

Sharing of the current platform of SNSM with the same-named, previously established political party centered in the Republic of Serbia, as well as the core of elaborated principles (Serbian conservatism, individualism

Individualism

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, minarchism

Minarchism

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, as the primary principle as opposed to collectivist nationalism

Nationalism

Nationalism is a political ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of individuals with a political entity defined in national terms, i.e. a nation. In the 'modernist' image of the nation, it is nationalism that creates national identity. There are various definitions for what...

of any variety), SNSM seldom exposes calls for state-level libertarian

Libertarianism

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economic reform due to disparity based on maximum variety of voters estimated as possible. This is likely a result of discrepancy between the policies of the two long-time parties representing by far mostly people of the so-called “Macedonian block” VMRO-DPMNE and SDSM's regarding their economical models, both of them being based on elaborate, administration and experts government system and wealth distribution as a means of enforcing social policy ("national rebirth" ('Prerodba') and “social justice”, respectively), thus having decisive role in setting Republic of Macedonia's economical policy once having obtained a mandate http://www.vmro-dpmne.org.mk/Dokumenti/Vrednosti_vmro_dpmne.pdf http://www.vmro-dpmne.org.mk/Dokumenti/Programa%202008%20EN%20WEB.pdf http://www.sdsm.org.mk/default.aspx?mId=82&lId=2 http://sdsm.org.mk/Default.aspx?mId=54&lId=1.

SNSM is de facto

De facto

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distanced from relationships with VMRO-DPMNE, the currently (2006- ) ruling populist demo-christian party that promotes 'macedonian nationalism

Macedonian nationalism

Macedonian nationalism is a term referring to the ethnic Macedonian version of nationalism.-Late 19th century beginning:The development of the Macedonian ethnicity can be said to have begun in the late 19th and early 20th century. This is the time of the first expressions of ethnic nationalism by...

' with certain specifics, which includes historical revisionism.

Although it participated in the election for the unicameral Parliament

Parliament

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of the Republic of Macedonia (“Sobranie”) of Republic of Macedonia in 2008, SNSM failed to gain any of the 120 seats in the Parliament http://www.sobranie.mk/?ItemID=5434949B090E754CAA918A4D6F7AB2BF. However, it has a number of elected local deputies and carriers of public offices on municipal level, in Kumanovo

Kumanovo

Kumanovo is a city in the Republic of Macedonia and is the seat of Kumanovo Municipality which is the largest municipality in the country. Municipal institutions include a city council, mayor and other administrative bodies.-Name:...

and the region of Skopska Crna Gora

Skopska Crna Gora

Skopska Crna Gora , formerly called Kara-dagh also called simply Crna Gora, is a mountain range on the border between Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia, between the cities of Kačanik and Skopje.The Monastery of St...

http://www.kumanovo.gov.mk/pocetnaf/2.html http://www.vesti-online.com/Stampano-izdanje/07-05-2010/Dnevnik/50868/I-srpski-jezik-u--sluzbenoj-upotrebi.

The Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia articulates itself on the entire territory of Republic of Macedonia, but popular support and enlisted membership exists mostly from the northern part of the Country, primarily Kumanovo

Kumanovo

, city of Skopje

Skopje

Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia with about a third of the total population. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre...

with emphasis on Skopska Crna Gora

Skopska Crna Gora

region and to a demographically lesser extent in the towns of Tetovo

Tetovo

Tetovo is a city in the northwestern part of Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena River.The city covers an area of at above sea level, with a population of 86,580 citizens in the municipality. Tetovo is home to the State University of Tetovo and South East...

, Veles

Veles

Veles may refer to:*Veles , Slavic deity*Veles , in the Republic of Macedonia*Veles municipality, in the Republic of Macedonia*Veles, singular of velites, a class of infantry in the early Roman Republic...

, Poreč area etc.

At the extraordinary election for Parlament, held at June 05 2011, the President of SNSM, Dragiša Miletić has been elected as a Parliamentory Deputy, as a candidate of his party within the block of parties whose most prominent political partner is SDSM.*http://www.sobranie.mk/?ItemID=81DCBC8FF75D8A48A1A27BDE4DF00D38

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