Party for Democratic Prosperity
The Party for Democratic Prosperity (Albanian partia për Prosperitet Demokratik, Acronym: PPD; macedonian Partija za Demokratski Prosperitet Партија за Демократски Просперитет, short PDP ПДП ) was a political party in Macedonia, which campaigned for the rights of the Albanians in Macedonia and the key participants belonged to the Macedonian policy of 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 members of the party PPD.
History
When it was founded on April 16, 1990 in Džepčište in Tetovo, the Party for Democratic Prosperity understood according to its statutes in any way. Than ethnic Albanian party, but as a Civil Party of Albanians, Muslims, Turks, Macedonians, Vlachs and Roma in Macedonia But starting your own political party of the Macedonian Albanians was quickly taken up with enthusiasm and former members of the Communist League, former political prisoners Albanian and many others with different political perspectives joined the new party at. On 25 May 1990, the PPD was recognized by the Yugoslav state and went as the first Albanian party in Macedonia in the history books. Nevzat Halili ( born 1946 ) became the first party leader.
For a long time considered himself the Party for Democratic Prosperity more like a political movement than a party. Only in 1997, she began with the re-registration of their members and went out about the year 2000 by 22 - 23,000 members in 22 local chapters.
At a party conference on 13 February 1994, there was within the PPD for fractionation, which resulted in the split. Reason was the issue of the government of the PPD. The oppositional wing to the local chairman of Tetovo, Menduh Thaçi, became independent and changed a little later the party name in the party for Democratic Prosperity of Albanians (1997 renamed the Albanian Democratic Party, Acronym: PDSH ). At its peak studied philosophy Arbën Xhaferi occurred. The residual 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 whereabouts of the PPD in the ruling coalition, there had been no progress in the recognition and legalization of Tetovo University was founded in 1994. For this reason, set the PPD and the PDSH back their tactical differences and decided by an electoral alliance, the political situation of the Albanians in Macedonia to improve. So signed on 9 September 1998 Abdurrahman Aliti and Arbën Xhaferi a coalition agreement for the next parliamentary elections on 18 October 1998.
The coalition between the Party for Democratic Prosperity and the Albanian Democratic Party came in 1998, according to results of a total of 19.3 percent of the vote. The PPD received 14 PDSH 11 seats; So the Albanian parties could together account for 25 of the 120 seats. After the election it was clear that the VMRO -DPMNE winner was and could unite 28.1 percent of the electorate votes. To form a government but the Conservative party had to seek coalition partners. For this reason, the PDSH was brought in as a partner and the Parliament elected on 30 November 1998 by 77 votes to 31 with 12 abstentions, the coalition cabinet of VMRO- DPMNE, DA ( Democratic Alternative ) and PDSH under Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski. The Party for Democratic Prosperity thus remained together with the Social Democrats in opposition.
The PPD lost in subsequent years strongly votes. When, after the Albanian uprising in 2001, the KLA ( National Liberation Army ) took off their weapons as a result of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, their successors founded the Democratic Union for Integration (acronym: BDI) under its chairman, Ali Ahmeti, who was their leader before. The BDI has been very popular among the Albanians in Macedonia and thus took the PPD and the PDSH many votes. Another reason for the weakening of the PPD was the social structure of their followers. The members of the PPD were mostly wealthier, older people from the business and administrative areas. The members of the PDSH it was, however, often by younger people from an urban environment, which had often studied in Pristina and saw their intellectual and cultural foundation in Kosovo.
On 2 June 2008, incorporating the merged party for Democratic Prosperity with the Albanian Democratic Party. The then chairman of PPD, Abdulhadi Vejseli, and the leader of the PDSH, Menduh Thaçi signed an agreement.
Parliamentary seats
The Party for Democratic Prosperity had during their 18-year history following number of seats in Parliament: