President of North Macedonia
The President of the Republic of North Macedonia is the head of state of North Macedonia.
President of North Macedonia
Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Štip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he worked as a lawyer and participated in the partisan resistance. By the end of the war, he was an organiser of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, the predecessor of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as a federal Yugoslav state.
Gligorov in 1993
Gligorov (top right) with other members of the General Staff of the Macedonian Partisans on Kozjak, c. 1944
Gligorov in 1965
Gligorov's presidential car after the assassination attempt