Macedonian Patriotic Organization (1922 -) – Legal organization of the Bulgarian and Macedonian emigration in the United States and Canada. The founding Congress was held in gr. Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA (1-4 October 1922), at which the Central Committee was elected, and Atanas Stefanov was elected. The Congress was adopted the Constitution of the Organization, according to which the aim of the MPO BI-LA Union: “to fight in a legal way of proclaiming Macedonia in an independent Macedonian republic in its geographical and economic boundaries.” At the Third Congress, held in 1924, the name of the organization was changed to a Macedonian political organization. In the Constitution adopted at the Ohio Congress (1927), identical to the first, it was emphasized that 1,096,376 Bulgarians lived. During the whole period between the two world wars MPO was influenced by the Macedonian National Committee and the Mihailist VMRO. Since World War II to the creation of the Republic of Macedonia (1991), through its printed and other propaganda assets, the MPO advocated the secession of Macedonia from the Federal Yugoslavia, removing the communist system and creating an independent democratic state of “Macedonian Bulgarians”. MPO issues its own organ “Macedonian Tribune” (MACEDONIAN TRBUINE). The first issue of the newspaper came out on February 10, 1927. In Indianapolis, the United States. The newspaper “Macedonian Tribune”, the authority of the MPO in the United States First editor Boris Zographer. After the creation of the Republic of Macedonia, since 1997. Some articles in Macedonian language with Latin are printed in the newspaper. Lit.: Kostadin Gíberdev, Macedonian patriotic organizations in Canada, Sofia, 1991; Zoran Todorovski, the political views of the MPO for the liberation and creation of an independent Macedonia, with the emigration from Macedonia from the emergence of today, “Skopje, 2001. Z. Todd.
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