Last modified: 2008-02-23 by ivan sache
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Flag of SDSM - Image by Ivan Sache, 22 November 2006
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SDSM succeeded in 1998 the League of Communists of Macedonia with a Social-Democrat
program. The party is member of the Socialist International. SDSM was the ruling party in Macedonia from 1992 to 1998 and from 2002 to 2006.
Branko Crvenkovski was the leader of the party until 2004; he was Prime
Minister of Macedonia during the ruling years of the SDSM and was
elected President of the Republic in May 2004. Vlado Buckovski,
appointed Prime Minister, succeeded him as the party's leader. The
party lost the last general elections held on 5 July 2006. On 28
August 2006, Nikola Gruevski, from the winning party VMRO-DPMNE, was
appointed Prime Minister. On 5 November, Radmila Sekerinska was elected leader of the SDSM,
following Buckovski's resignation. She plans to revamp the party image
and to return to social-democracy. Over the last years, the SDSM had
adopted more neo-liberal views.
There were two main secessions in the history of SDSM: in 1993, Petar
Gosev left and formed the Democrat Party; in 1999, Tito Petkovski left
and form the New Social Democrat Party.
Sources:
Ivan Sache, 22 November 2006
The flag of SDSM is described in the party statutes (page no longer online) as follows:
Article 5.
The Party shall own a round seal, of 3 cm in diameter, with a five-pointed star and a rose in the middle, subscribed to the edges "Social Democratic Union of Macedonia".
The party shall have a sign comprising a yellow five-pointed star, on a blue base, above which a red rose is positioned.
The Party flag shall have a rectangle shape, in blue color, with 1:2 dimensions, and a painted yellow five-pointed star in its left corner, with a red rose positioned above.
Ivan Sache, 22 November 2006
Flag of SDSM, variant - Image by Tomislav Todorović & Mladen Mijatov, 13 July 2007
On 16 September 2002, in TV-reports (Vesti u 10, Studio B channel, Belgrade, Serbia) from Macedonia about just proclaimed results of the parliamentary elections, a variant of the flag was seen in the streets of Skopje, carried by the party supporters who celebrated the victory. On this flag, the emblem was in centre of the field and smaller: the diameter of circumscribed circle of the star was about one-half of the flag height or a bit less.
Tomislav Todorović, 13 July 2007