World Macedonian Congress

The World Macedonian Congress (shortened as WMC or SMK; Macedonian: Светски македонски конгрес; Svetski makedonski kongres) is a non-governmental organization based in the Republic of Macedonia. It describes itself as an organization fighting and demanding for more rights to ethnic Macedonians on an international level. The organization is founded on the 15th September 1990 by Todor Petrov who is the president of the organization. The organization is seen as a nationalist and extremely conservative by independent researchers and media. Closely related to the World Macedonian Congress are certain Macedonian organizations in the neighboring countries of Macedonia from whom with larger importance, the Macedonian Party in Albania, the OMO Ilinden in Bulgaria, and the Democratic Party of the Macedonians in Kosovo founded by the organization’s member Ismail Boyda. The WMC also considers itself a non-formal parliament of the ethnic Macedonians.