IMRO - Bulgarian National Movement

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ВМРО - Българско национално движение
IMRO - Bulgarian National Movement
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Party leader Krassimir Karakachanov
founding 1989
Place of foundation Sofia , Bulgaria
Headquarters Sofia
Alignment Nationalism
national conservatism
Colours) Red Black
Parliament seats
11/240
( Narodno Sabranie , 2017 )
MEPs
2/17
European party European Conservatives and Reformists Party
EP Group European Conservatives and Reformers
Website vmro.bg

The IMRO - Bulgarian National Movement (short IMRO-BNB ) ( Bulgarian ВМРО - Българско национално движение WMRO - Balgarsko nazionalno dwischenie (short ВМРО-БНД WMRO "stands for Inner Revolution, Macro / БedonМ -BND " organization but always as an acronym used) is a right-wing , nationalist - populist and christian orthodox embossed party in Bulgaria . It sees itself as the successor organization of the Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO, or WMRO) and the refugee associations of Bulgarians from Macedonia (макдонски българи, German Macedonian Bulgarians). Its chairman is Krassimir Karakachanov . The party publishes the Makedonija newspaper (Bulgarian “Македония” = Macedonia) and the youth organization publishes the magazine NIE (Bulgarian “НИЕ” = we).

The party sees itself as a conservative and patriotic representative of modern nationalism and describes itself as a “ pan-Bulgarian national movement” which strives for “spiritual unity of the Bulgarian nation”. It seeks a complete and final solution to the “ Macedonian question ” and calls for the preservation of the national roots of ethnic Bulgarians living outside their own state. She also regards the Slavic-speaking population group of the Republic of Macedonia as Bulgarians and not as an independent nation. On the other hand, she rejects the “Turkishization” of Bulgarian Muslims and political programs from which the Roma particularly benefit. Activists and local functionaries of the party participated in attacks on non-Orthodox religious communities (sects), which the party leadership tacitly accepted.

The party's membership is disproportionately made up of younger, better-educated men. Party officials are primarily historians (such as Karakachanov), lawyers, former military officials and police officers.

history

As a result of the political upheavals and the opening of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe and Bulgaria in 1989, the Federation of Macedonian Cultural Educational Associations (Bulgarian: Съюза на македонските културнските културно-простжну, BM. Ins Called to life. In the following time Macedonian cultural houses or associations were established all over Bulgaria. The departure culminated in December 1990 when the decision to form a political party was taken at the first BMK congress. The political organization should tie in with the tradition and ideas of the IMRO, which existed before communist rule. The party, which was initially still registered as a cultural organization and not as a political party, was named IMRO - Federation of Macedonian Associations (Bulgarian ВМРО — Съюз на македонските дружества). In 1997, during the fourth congress, the addition of the Federation of Macedonian Associations was removed from the party name. It was not officially registered as a political party until 1999.

Party headquarters in Sofia

In the parliamentary elections of 2001, the party in coalition with the Gergjowden party was only able to achieve 3.63% and missed entry into parliament.

In the parliamentary elections of 2005, the IMRO-BNB took part in the electoral alliance Balgarski Naroden Sajuz (BNS for short), which was able to achieve 5.2% of the vote, which corresponds to 13 seats in the Bulgarian parliament . She was able to win the 2007 local elections in three cities, Bansko , Kritschim and the second largest Bulgarian city, Plovdiv .

The IMRO-BNB alone had 5 MPs, but resigned from the BNS electoral alliance during the legislative period and joined forces with other MPs from other parties to form the Napred (= forward) parliamentary group .

The IMRO-BNB took part in the European and parliamentary elections on June 7, 2009 as part of the Napred coalition . In doing so, she was not able to achieve any success and also not manage to enter the Bulgarian parliament.

In the European elections in May 2014 , she ran together with the newly founded populist party Bulgaria without the censorship of TV presenter Nikolaj Barekow . The alliance won two of the 17 Bulgarian seats in the European Parliament with 10.7% of the vote, one of which went to IMRO politician Angel Jambaski . He has joined the parliamentary group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). In August 2014 the party took part in the establishment of the Patriotic Front alliance , of which it is a major component alongside the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria .

In the general elections in 2016 and 2017, the party ran under the United Patriots alliance .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sabine Riedel: The political system of Bulgaria. In Wolfgang Ismayr: The political systems of Eastern Europe. 3rd edition, VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, p. 706.
  2. a b c d Michael Meznik: Extremism in Bulgaria. In: Eckhard Jesse, Tom Thieme: Extremism in the EU states. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, p. 53.
  3. a b c d Christo Ivanov, Margarita Ilieva: Bulgaria. In: Cas Mudde : Racist Extremism in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge, Abingdon / New York 2005, p. 4.
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