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Date Posted: 10:10:49 09/21/00 Thu
Author: Nikolov
Subject: Re: VMRO-VMRO
In reply to: MAK-1 's message, "VMRO-VMRO" on 16:16:53 09/19/00 Tue

LJUBLJANA, Sep 6, 2000 -- (Central Europe Review) The VMRO-VMRO party has preoccupied much of the media this week and last, ensuring that observers have had to be very careful in drawing the distinction between this party and VMRO-DPMNE, the dominant partner in the governing coalition.
The first "VMRO" in the VMRO-VMRO stands for "Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization," and was the name of a party associated with the national Illinden uprising against the Turks in 1903. It is, consequently, a popular appellation for political parties in Macedonia. The second "VMRO" in the party's name stands for "True Macedonian Reform Option." A relatively new party, the VMRO-VMRO was formed eighteen months ago from and for disillusioned members of VMRO-DPMNE who accuse the government of betraying its reform commitments.

Although they call themselves the "true" VMRO, the vast majority of the VMRO-VRMO's policies are the same as those of the VMRO-DPMNE, and the newest party's emergence seems to be more a matter of personal incompatibility than a genuine political rift.

The past week saw a great deal of friction between the two VMROs.

At a press conference, VMRO-VMRO leader Boris Stojmenov announced that, for the past two weeks, the homes of Members of Parliament who had recently defected to the party from VMRO-DPMNE had been virtually sieged by demonstrators shouting abuse and throwing tomatoes.

The situation became more serious at the Skopje home of Member of Parliament Georgi Todorov. According to the Member of Parliament's own account, he fired two shots into the air to frighten the demonstrators. However, police sources have said two demonstrators were wounded at the scene, and ballistics tests show the bullets to have come from a gun registered to the Todorov.

Meanwhile, the state taxation department has commenced a "thorough" audit of holding company "BS" �registered to party leader Stojmenov�and the public prosecutor has raised a case against deputy leader Boris Zmejkovski related to possible insurance fraud.

For the leadership of VMRO-VMRO, it has been a busy week.

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