It was created as a rival to the first World Macedonian Congress (created by John Bitove, Sr., a Canadian-Macedonian businessman with the encouragement of the first president of the Republic of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov) by the independent politician Todor Petrov and current president of the Congress.
[7] Petrov claimed the Congress was created partly to replace the "Institute for the Macedonian Diaspora", which had been discredited through its past association with the Yugoslavian secret service.
[9] The organization claims ideological descent from one offshoot of the Macedonian Secret Revolutionary Committee, founded by Georgi Kapchev in Geneva, which sent a call to convene an International Congress, to solve the Macedonian Question in January 1899.
Macedonian political scientist Zdravko Savevski labelled the organization as far-right.
[15] In 2004, Todor Petrov and the World Macedonian Congress initiated 2004 referendum against changes of administrative divisions.