POLITICAL SUBCULTURE VS. CULTURAL ASSIMILATION IN REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

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In the Republic of Macedonia there has been a tendency and effort for different political
cultures. Consensual political culture is when citizens tend to agree on making decisions and
solving problems, while conflictual political culture is when citizens are divided into two regimes
for solving major problems. There is also a third political culture called "subculture". It is a
situation when the division of these groups (ethnic, religious, ideological, cultural, etc.) deepens
even more and this division has a real opportunity to escalate to violence and war. In Macedonia,
until now, we could not speak for a consensual political culture because this was proven in the
recent presidential elections, as well as in the past government, when the IMRO-DPMNU party
was in power, but it was rather a conflictual political culture as citizens are divided by a strong
political, cultural, ideological, ethnic and religious views, tending to pass from time to time to
"political subculture", where the division escalates to violence, as there is constant violence in
multiethnic countries, and the war, such as the 2001 year. Nowadays, we have a different situation
after the so-called “Colorful revolution” and parliamentary elections, where the SDUM party came
into power, which by using the so-called "Zaev Bombs" it successfully achieved to convince
Albanians to vote for it by promising them multiethnic Macedonia, to correct past mistakes and
focus on Euro-integration. In this way, they try to change political culture in Macedonia to the
one called political cultural merger or political assimilation.

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