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History

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

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. In some areas it ran in coalition with the

Union of Reform Forces The Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Савез реформских снага Југославије, Savez reformskih snaga Jugoslavije; abbr. СРСЈ or SRSJ) was a centre-left political party in the SFR Yugoslavia led b ...

(SRS), with the alliance winning six seats. In others it ran with the

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, winning one seat. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1282 In 1991 it merged with the SRS,Sabrina P Ramet, Ola Listhaug & Albert Simkus (2013) ''Civic and Uncivic Values in Macedonia: Value Transformation, Education and Media'', Palgrave Macmillan, 23 Jan 2013, p124 which was renamed Reform Forces in Macedonia–Liberal Party, eventually becoming the

Liberal Party of Macedonia The Liberal Party of Macedonia ( mk, Либерална партија на Македонија, ''Liberalna partija na Makedonija'') is a conservative-liberal political party in North Macedonia. The party was a member of the Alliance of Liberal ...

References

Defunct political parties in North Macedonia Political parties in Yugoslavia Political parties disestablished in 1991 {{RMacedonia-party-stub