United Macedonian Organization Ilinden–Pirin

[citation needed] In 1999, the organisation was registered as a political party and took part in the municipal elections the same year.

On November 25, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, condemned Bulgaria because of violations of the OMO Ilinden–Pirin's freedom of organising meetings.

[1] The court stated that Bulgaria had violated Act 11 from the European Convention of Human Rights.

[2] On 26 June 2006, the party held a new founding meeting in the southwestern town of Gotse Delchev despite an IMRO-BNM protest demonstration.

[5] UMO Ilinden–Pirin has been accepted as a full member of the European Free Alliance in April 2007.