The Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia ( sr, Српска напредна странка у Македонији, Srpska napredna stranka u Makedoniji, mk, Српска напредна странка во Македонија, Srpska napredna stranka vo Makedonija; abbr. СНСМ, SNSM) 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 ...

Ideology

SNSM shares a variety of contacts with Serbian and other non-governmental organizations in the

Republic of 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 Yugoslavia. It ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Feder ...

and elsewhere and with the core party, Serbia-centered

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...

(SNS). It is a separate and independent political organization, subject to the Constitution and legislation of the Republic of Macedonia. SNSM (commonly referred

colloquially Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the style (sociolinguistics), linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom norm ...

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 Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, und ...

(individual consciousness of oneself as an ethnic Serb, in community of other Serbs). The main principle of SNSM is Serbian

identity politics Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, social class, or other identifying factors develop political agendas that are based upon these i ...

and national empowerment as a hitherto marginalized ethnic group in Republic of Macedonia. It aims to preserve local Serbian heritage and tradition, emphasizing the multi-ethnic character of the country, advancement of organizational and materialized forms of aid to revival of Serbian academic studies, sustaining of the

Serbian language Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and Kos ...

and Serbian literacy, and improving the representation of Serbian pupils in Macedonia's schooling system. The party also rejects anti-Slavic identity revisionism in Macedonia. The practical issues of economic, infrastructural and technical problems facing Serbian community in Macedonia. It shares its platform with the same-named, previously established political party centered in the Republic of Serbia, and the core of elaborated principles (Serbian conservatism,

individualism Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual. Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and to value independence and self-reli ...

minarchism A night-watchman state, or minarchy, whose proponents are known as minarchists, is a model of a state that is limited and minimal, whose functions depend on libertarian theory. Right-libertarians support it only as an enforcer of the non-aggres ...

, as the primary principle as opposed to collectivist

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

of any variety). SNSM seldom calls for state-level

libertarian Libertarianism (from french: libertaire, "libertarian"; from la, libertas, "freedom") is a political philosophy that upholds liberty as a core value. Libertarians seek to maximize autonomy and political freedom, and minimize the state's e ...

economic reform. SNSM is distanced from relationships with VMRO-DPMNE, the ruling populist Christian democratic party that promotes

Macedonian nationalism Macedonian nationalism (, ) is a general grouping of nationalist ideas and concepts among ethnic Macedonians that were first formed in the late 19th century among separatists seeking the autonomy of the region of Macedonia from the Ottoman Emp ...

History

It participated in the election for the unicameral

Macedonian Parliament The Assembly of the Republic of North Macedonia ( mk, Собрание на Република Северна Македонија, sq, Kuvendi i Republikës së Maqedonisë së Veriut), or the Sobranie ( mk, Собрание, "Assembly"), is t ...

in 2008, but failed to gain any of the 120 seats. However, it has a number of elected local deputies and carriers of public offices on municipal level, in

Kumanovo Kumanovo ( mk, Куманово ; also known by other #Etymology, alternative names) is a city in North Macedonia and the seat of Kumanovo Municipality, the List of municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia by population, largest municipali ...

and the region of

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. The party's popular support and enlisted membership comes mostly from the northern part of the country, primarily Kumanovo, city of

Skopje Skopje ( , , ; mk, Скопје ; sq, Shkup) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It is the country's political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. The territory of Skopje has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC; r ...

with emphasis on

region and to a lesser extent in the towns of

Tetovo Tetovo ( mk, Тетово, , sq, Tetovë/Tetova) is a city in the northwestern part of North Macedonia, built on the foothills of Šar Mountain and divided by the Pena River. The municipality of Tetovo covers an area of at above sea level, w ...

, Veles, and Poreč area. At the extraordinary election for Parliament on June 5, 2011, the President of SNSM, Dragiša Miletić, was elected as a Parliamentary Deputy, as a candidate of his party within the block of parties whose most prominent political partner is SDSM. During the first congress of SNSM held in the town of

at 9 March 2014, delegates choose

Vane Veličković Vane may refer to: People * Vane (surname) * Vane Featherston (1864–1948), English stage actress * Ivan Vane Ivanović (1913–1999), Yugoslav-British athlete, shipowner, political activist, and philanthropist * Vane Pennell (1876–1938), Eng ...

for the new president of the party. Dragiša Miletić states that he considers Kumanovo congress illegitimate, while being elected as SNSM leader by a separate party congress, held in Banjanje,

. Dragiša Miletić joined the political coalition for premature parliamentary election in Republic of Macedonia (April, 2014) with the

GROM Grom may refer to: Military * JW GROM, a Polish special forces unit * ORP ''Grom'', several ships of the Polish Navy * Grom (missile), a Polish anti-aircraft missile * A Yugoslav/Serbian version of the Kh-23 (AS-9 'Kyle') air-to-surface missi ...

party run by Mayor of Skopje municipality of Karpoš,

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 ...

, and with Slobodan Ugrinovski's party

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 ...

as well with the Party of Free Democrats, led by Kiro Geštakovski.

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„Радикалите го почитуваат интегритетот на Македонија“; "Radicals respect the integrity of Macedonia", 2006, (in Macedonian)Собрание на Република Македонија - Избори 2008; "Parliament of Republic of Macedonia - Elections 2008", (in Macedonian)"Славица Ђукић Дејановић са Србима у Македонији"; "Slavica Đukić-Dejanović With Serbs in Macedonia"(in Serbian)СРПСКА НАПРЕДНА СТРАНКА У РЕПУБЛИЦИ МАКЕДОНИЈИ (СНСМ) "Serbian Progressive Party in Macedonia (SNSM)" (in Serbian)U opštini Staro Nagoričane srpski u zvaničnoj upotrebi; "Serbian language became official in the Municipality of Staro Nagoričane" (in Serbian)
*[http://www.vesti-online.com/Stampano-izdanje/07-05-2010/Dnevnik/50868/I-srpski-jezik-u--sluzbenoj-upotrebi Odluka lokalnih vlasti u Kumanovu: i srpski jezik u službenoj upotrebi; "Decision by the Local Government in Kumanovo: Serbian language also in official use" (in Serbian)]
Декларација Скупштине дијаспоре и Срба у региону - саопштење усвојено на сабору у Београду; "Declaration of the Assembly of Diaspora and Serbs in the region - announcement accepted by the gathering in Belgrade", 05-VII-2010 (in Serbian)
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