The Party for the Full Emancipation of the Roma of Macedonia ( mk, Партија за целосна еманципација на Ромите од Македонија, ''Partija za Celosna Emancipacija na Romite od Makedonija'', PCERM) is a political party in

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representing the Roma minority.

History

The PCERM contested the 1990 parliamentary elections at a time when Macedonia was still part of

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. It ran alone in some areas and in alliance with the

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in others, the latter alliance winning a single seat,

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1288 taken by

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. It ran alone in the 1994 elections, receiving 0.7% of the vote and winning one seat. During the 1994–98 parliamentary term it was represented in the Assembly by Abdi and Amdi Bajram. Reportedly, in the 1990s, leaders of the PCERM called for the establishment of an independent Romani state, "

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". The 1998 elections saw the party run in an alliance with the Socialist Party, the

Democratic Party of Turks The Turkish Democratic Party ( mk, Демократска партија на Турците, ''Demokratska partija na Turcite''; tr, Türk Demokratik Partisi) is a political party of the Turkish minority in North Macedonia. In the 2002 parliam ...

, the

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and the

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. Despite finishing sixth with 4.7% of the national vote, the alliance failed to win a single seat. The PCERM contested the 2002 elections alone, but received just 0.2% of the vote and remained seatless. The party did not contest the 2006 elections. However, it returned to run in the 2008 elections as part of the For a Better Macedonia coalition led by

VMRO-DPMNE Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization – Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity ( mk, Внатрешна македонска револуционерна организација – Демократска партија за ...

. The alliance won the election, taking 63 of the 120 seats in the Assembly. However, prior to the 2011 elections, the PCERM joined the Social Democratic Union (SDSM)-led alliance,Early Parliamentary Elections 2011
State Election Commission which lost the election to the VMRO-DPMNE coalition. It remained part of the SDSM alliance for the

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, again losing to VMRO-DPMNE.

References

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