Ljubčo Georgievski

Ljubčo[a] Georgievski (Macedonian: Љубчо Георгиевски, pronounced [ˈʎupt͡ʃɔ ɟɛɔrɟiˈɛfski]; Bulgarian: Любчо Георгиевски, romanized: Lyubcho Georgievski; born 17 January 1966) is a Macedonian politician and writer who served as the only Vice President of Macedonia from January to October 1991 and as the Prime Minister of Macedonia from 1998 to 2002.

Ljubčo Georgievski was born on 17 January 1966 in Štip, SR Macedonia, SFR Yugoslavia, where he had primary and secondary education.

[13] In the first multi-party elections in 1990 Georgievski with his party had won the biggest number of seats in the Macedonian Assembly.

[13] After a new constitution was adopted in November 1990 he was elected as Vice President by the Assembly of the Republic of Macedonia on 27 January 1991.

[14] Georgievski resigned from the party's leadership on 24 May 2003 after he lost the 2002 elections and was succeeded the next day by the former finance minister in his government, Nikola Gruevski.

[5] In 2007, Georgievski published his book Facing the Truth (Bulgarian: С лице към истината) in Bulgaria.

[30] There he revealed a range of new things about the unknown history of the country, including the fact that he together with his Serbian counterpart Zoran Đinđić, discussed the exchange of territories between Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo.

The book confirms that in 1999 he was summoned to the White House, where former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, sought permission from Macedonia ground forces of NATO to attack Serbia from the territory of the country.

Among other things, he wrote that he had spent fifteen minutes talking to former Serbian and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević while he was visiting former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski in the Scheveningen prison.

[6] On 27 February 2021, he made a five-point proposal on Facebook to improve North Macedonia–Bulgaria relations, which was criticized by VMRO-DPMNE and Pavle Trajanov from the party Democratic Alliance.

Georgievski in 2012