Democratic Prosperity Party

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Democratic Prosperity Party
founding April 16, 1990
Place of foundation Džepčište
resolution June 2, 2008
Alignment right center
Number of members 22-23,000 (2000)

The Party for Democratic Prosperity ( Albanian  Partia për Prosperitet Demokratik , acronym: PPD ; Macedonian Партија за Демократски Просперитет Partija za Demokratski Prosperitet shortly PDP ПДП) was a political party in the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Macedonia (now Northern Macedonia ), which campaigned for the rights of the Albanian minority and was one of the most important participants in Macedonian politics in the 1990s.

The PPD was founded in 1990 and was the first political party of the Albanian minority in Macedonia. In 2008 it merged with the Albanian Democratic Party , which in turn was founded in 1994 by former party members of the PPD.

history

When it was founded on April 16, 1990 in Džepčište near Tetovo , the Statute did not see the Party for Democratic Prosperity as an ethnic Albanian party, but as a bourgeois party of Albanians , Muslims , Turks , Macedonians , Wallachians and Roma of Macedonia. However, the founding of their own political party was very quickly greeted with enthusiasm by the Albanians of Macedonia and former members of the Communist League, former political Albanian prisoners and many others with different political perspectives joined the new party. On May 25, 1990, the PPD was recognized by the Yugoslav state and went down in the history books as the first Albanian party in Macedonia. Nevzat Halili (* 1951) became the first party leader.

For a long time, the Democratic Prosperity Party viewed itself more like a political movement than a party. It did not begin to re-register its members until 1997, and by the year 2000 it assumed 22,000 to 23,000 members in 22 local chapters.

On the occasion of a party congress on February 13, 1994, fractionation took place within the PPD, which led to a split. The reason was the question of government participation of the PPD. The opposition wing around the local chairman of Tetovo, Menduh Thaçi , became independent and a little later changed the party name to Party for Democratic Prosperity of the Albanians (renamed the Albanian Democratic Party in 1997 , acronym: PDSH ). At its head came the studied philosopher Arbën Xhaferi . The remaining PPD under Xheladin Murati and Abdurrahman Aliti remained in the coalition with the Social Democratic League of Macedonia under Prime Minister Branko Crvenkovski and the Socialist Party of Macedonia under Ljubisav Ivanov .

Despite the PPD remaining in the ruling coalition, there had been no progress in the recognition and legalization of the Tetovo University, founded in 1994 . For this reason the PPD and the PDSH put their tactical differences aside and decided to improve the political situation of the Albanians in Macedonia through an electoral alliance. On September 9, 1998, Abdurrahman Aliti and Arbën Xhaferi signed a coalition agreement for the next parliamentary elections on October 18, 1998.

The coalition between the Party for Democratic Prosperity and the Albanian Democratic Party came in 1998 to a total of 19.3 percent of the vote. The PPD received 14 and the PDSH 11 seats; thus the Albanian parties could unite 25 out of 120 seats. After the election it was clear that the VMRO-DPMNE was the winner and received 28.1 percent of the vote. In order to form a government, the conservative party had to look for coalition partners. For this reason, the PDSH was brought in as a partner and on November 30, 1998 parliament elected the coalition cabinet consisting of VMRO-DPMNE, DA ( Democratic Alternative ) and PDSH under Prime Minister Ljubčo Georgievski with 77 votes to 31 with 12 abstentions . The Party for Democratic Prosperity thus remained in opposition along with the Social Democrats .

The PPD lost a lot of votes in the years that followed. When the UÇK (National Liberation Army) laid down its arms after the Albanian uprising in 2001 as a result of the Ohrid Framework Agreement , its successors founded the Democratic Union for Integration (acronym: BDI ) under its chairman Ali Ahmeti , who was previously its leader. The BDI became very popular among the Albanians of Macedonia and thus took many votes from the PPD and the PDSH. Another reason the PPD was weakened was the social structure of its followers. The majority of the members of the PPD were wealthier, older people from the economic and administrative sectors. The members of the PDSH, on the other hand, were often younger people from an urban environment, who had often studied in Pristina and saw their intellectual and cultural foundation in Kosovo .

On June 2, 2008, the Democratic Prosperity Party finally merged with the Albanian Democratic Party. The then PPD chairman, Abdulhadi Vejseli , and the party chairman of the PDSH, Menduh Thaçi, signed a corresponding agreement.

Parliament seats

The Democratic Prosperity Party has had the following number of seats in parliament during its 18-year history:

  • 1991–1994: 17 seats
  • 1994–1998: 14 seats
  • 1998–2002: 11 seats
  • 2002–2006: 2 seats
  • 2006–2008: 3 seats

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zeqirja Rexhepi: Zhvillimet politiko-shoqërore te shqiptarët në Maqedoni 1990-2001. Themelimi i partive politike në Maqedoni. Retrieved September 25, 2012 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ Dimitar Bechev: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia . Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8108-6295-1 , pp. 93 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Thede Kahl, Izer Maksuti, Albert Ramaj: The Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia . Facts, analyzes, opinions on interethnic coexistence. In: Viennese Eastern European Studies . tape 23 . Lit Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0584-9 , pp. 80 .
  4. ↑ Thede Kahl, Izer Maksuti, Albert Ramaj: The Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia . Facts, analyzes, opinions on interethnic coexistence. In: Viennese Eastern European Studies . tape 23 . Lit Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0584-9 , pp. 82-84 .
  5. ↑ Thede Kahl, Izer Maksuti, Albert Ramaj: The Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia . Facts, analyzes, opinions on interethnic coexistence. In: Viennese Eastern European Studies . tape 23 . Lit Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0584-9 , pp. 84-87 .
  6. ↑ Thede Kahl, Izer Maksuti, Albert Ramaj: The Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia . Facts, analyzes, opinions on interethnic coexistence. In: Viennese Eastern European Studies . tape 23 . Lit Verlag, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7000-0584-9 , pp. 212 .
  7. ↑ Bashkohet PDSH PPD. (No longer available online.) In: Televizioni Koha. June 2, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 25, 2012 (Albanian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tvkoha.tv  
  8. ↑ Distribution of MPs to the various parties from 1991 to today. (No longer available online.) In: Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 25, 2012 (Albanian).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sobranie.mk