Editing VMRO-DPMNE (section)

==Background==
The party's full name consists of the acronyms "VMRO" (standing for ''Vnatrešna Makedonska Revolucionerna Organizacija'' and referencing the [[Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization]] (IMRO), a rebel movement formed in 1893)<ref>{{cite book |author=Vasiliki P. Neofotistos |title=Macedonia and Identity Politics After the Prespa Agreement |date=2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780367407292 |page=22}}</ref> and "DPMNE" (Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity, ''Demokratska partija za makedonsko nacionalno edinstvo'').<ref name="ptb">{{cite book |editor1=Vera Stojarová |editor2=Peter Emerson |title=Party Politics in the Western Balkans |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135235857 |pages=175–176}}</ref><ref name="aec">{{cite book |author=Cvete Koneska |title=After Ethnic Conflict: Policy-making in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317183976 |pages=65, 144–146}}</ref> After undergoing various transformations, the original organisation was suppressed after the [[1934 Bulgarian coup d'état|military coup d'état of 1934]], in its headquarters in Bulgaria. At that time the territory of the current [[North Macedonia]] was a province called [[Vardar Banovina]], part of the [[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]. As the [[World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia#Bulgarian actions in 1943|Bulgarian army entered Yugoslav Macedonia]] as German satellite during WWII, former IMRO members were active in organising [[Bulgarian Action Committees]], charged with taking over the local authorities. After Bulgaria switched to the Allied in September 1944, they tried to create a pro-Bulgarian [[Independent Macedonia (1944)|independent Macedonian state]] under the protectorate of the Third Reich.<ref>{{cite book |title=Collective Memory, National Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria, and the Macedonian Question |author=Victor Roudometof |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |date=2002 |isbn=0275976483 |page=99}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Todor Chepreganov |title=History of the Macedonian People |publisher=Institute of National History, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University |location=Skopje |date=2008 |page=254}}</ref> VMRO–DPMNE claims ideological descent from the old IMRO,<ref>{{cite book| author = Alan John Day|author2=Roger East |author3=Richard Thomas | title = A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe: Alan J. Day, Roger East and Richard Thomas [ed.]| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dt2TXexiKTgC&pg=PA275| year = 2002| publisher = Routledge| isbn = 978-1-85743-063-9| page = 275 }}</ref> although there is no known continuity between the two organisations.<ref>{{cite book |author=Bernard A. Cook |title=Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia, Volume 2 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |date=2001 |isbn=9780815340584 |page=813}}</ref> The historical IMRO was as a whole [[pro-Bulgarian]] grouping,<ref>{{cite book |quote=A more modern national hero is Gotse Delchev, leader of the turn-of-the-century Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), which was actually a largely pro-Bulgarian organization but is claimed as the founding Macedonian national movement. |author=Stuart J. Kaufman |title=Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=2001 |isbn=0801487366 |page=193}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |quote=The first name of the IMRO was "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees", which was later changed several times. Initially its membership was restricted only for Bulgarians. It was active not only in Macedonia but also in Thrace (the [[Vilayet of Adrianople]]). Since its early name emphasized the Bulgarian nature of the organization by linking the inhabitants of Thrace and Macedonia to Bulgaria, these facts are still difficult to be explained from the Macedonian historiography. They suggest that IMRO revolutionaries in the Ottoman period did not differentiate between ‘Macedonians’ and ‘Bulgarians’. Moreover, as their own writings attest, they often saw themselves and their compatriots as ‘Bulgarians’ and wrote in Bulgarian standard language. |author=Ulf Brrunnbauer |date=2004 |chapter=Historiography, Myths and the Nation in the Republic of Macedonia |title=(Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism. Studies on South East Europe, vol. 4 |publisher=LIT, Münster |pages=165–200 |isbn=382587365X}}</ref> and its membership was allowed initially only for Bulgarians.<ref>{{cite book |quote=The revolutionary committee dedicated itself to fight for "full political autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople." Since they sought autonomy only for those areas inhabited by Bulgarians, they denied other nationalities membership in IMRO. According to Article 3 of the statutes, "any Bulgarian could become a member". |author=Laura Beth Sherman |title=Fires on the mountain: the Macedonian revolutionary movement and the kidnapping of Ellen Stone, Volume 62 |publisher=East European Monographs |date=1980 |isbn=0914710559 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |quote=The most controversial revisionist effort concerned the attempt to include the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO) of the [[interwar period]] within the Macedonian national narrative. Previous scholarship had regarded this organization as a reactionary force of Bulgarian expansionism, pointing to its support for conservative circles in Bulgaria, its contacts with the fascist Croatian Ustashe and Nazi Germany, and its display of Bulgarian national identity. The attempt to rehabilitate it was directly linked to efforts by the VMRO-DPMNE party, to declare itself the legitimate successor of the historical VMRO. |title=Serving the Nation: Ulf Brunnbauer, Historiography in the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) After Socialism |journal=Historein |volume=4 |date=2003 |page=171}}</ref>