About Nikola Gruevski
Nikola Gruevski (born 31 August 1970) is a former Macedonian politician who served as Prime Minister of Macedonia from 2006 until his resignation in 2016, in accordance with the internationally mediated Pržino Agreement due to the Macedonian political crisis, and led the party VMRO-DPMNE from 2004 to 2017. He was the longest serving post-independence Macedonian prime minister, serving more than nine years in office. He instigated the controversial identity politics called antiquization and the project Skopje 2014. His rule in Macedonia (now North Macedonia) contributed to democratic backsliding and the regime he led was authoritarian. His government was responsible for the illegal wiretapping of 20,000 people in the country. In May 2018, he was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges, but in November 2018 he fled to Hungary, where he was granted political asylum. He has been also convicted in absentia. Gruevski entered Republic of Macedonia's new finance sector, and was the first person to trade on Skopje's stock exchange. After winning the 2006 election, Gruevski created a government with the Democratic Party of Albanians on 28 August 2006. He founded the Brokerage Association of Macedonia in 1998 and made the first transaction on the Macedonian Stock Exchange.
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