The Citizen Option for Macedonia ( mk, Граѓанска опција за Македонија-ГРОМ, ''Gragjanska оpcija za Makedonija'', GROM (lit. "Thunder")) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

North Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Socialist Feder ...

led by

Stevčo Jakimovski Stevčo Jakimovski (Macedonian: Стевчо Јакимовски, born 27 August 1960) is a Macedonian politician and leader of the Citizen Option for Macedonia, a political party he founded in 2013. He is a mayor of the Karpoš Municipality Ka ...

, mayor of

Karpoš Karpoš ( mk, Карпош) is a neighbourhood in the Karpoš Municipality, City of Skopje, North Macedonia, and the seat of Karpoš Municipality. It is named after the famous Karposh hero. Demographics According to the 2002 census, the neighbou ...

History

The party was established by Jakimovski in May 2013 after he left the Social Democratic Union in protest at its planned boycott of the 2013 local elections. It nominated Zoran T. Popovski as its presidential candidate for the 2014 general elections, with Popovski finishing fourth out of four candidates with 3.61% of the vote. In the parliamentary elections GROM led an alliance under its own name, including the

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, the

Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia The Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia ( sr, Српска напредна странка у Македонији, Srpska napredna stranka u Makedoniji, mk, Српска напредна странка во Македонија, Srpska napre ...

, the

Union of Tito's Left Forces The Union of Tito's Left Forces ( mk, Сојуз на Титови леви сили, ''Sojuz na Titovi levi sili'') is a communist party in North Macedonia. The party follows the ideology of Titoism and its leader is Slobodan Ugrinovski. Referen ...

, and the Party of Free Democrats. The alliance received 2.8% of the vote, winning one seat in the

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.Macedonia
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References

External links

Official website
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