from his party in 2003 after he lost the 2002 elections. In recent years he is the president of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - People's Party. Georgievski is the founder of the right wing party VMRO-DPMNE. When the wars of Yugoslav succession started and the region was heading in for independence, Georgievski emerged as one of the strongest voices of opposition to challenge the Communist ruling structure, and succeeded in gaining strong public support. During his time in government (1998–2002), his coalition introduced strong reforms within the State administration, introduced the VAT system, started denationalisation, and adopted the pension system law. The Government managed to achieve very good financial results; foreign currency reserves were almost doubled, and a large budget surplus was also gained. In 2001, in Luxembourg, Georgievski signed the EU backed Stabilization and Association Agreement. His political agenda was nevertheless questioned during the short conflict ignited by the ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Macedonian armed forces in 2001. The conflict ended with the signing of the Ohrid Framework Agreement, which pledged greater rights for the Albanian minority. Georgievski was accused of direct involvement in the conflict, to the point of having ignited it, for personal benefits. Shortly after he lost the elections in 2002 to the opposition party SDSM, accusations of corruption followed, thus considerably lowering his political profile. He eventually broke off with the party he once founded, due to ideological incompatibility with his once Finance Minister Nikola Gruevski and founded VMRO-NP. Despite the members of the party not considering themselves Bulgarians, they strongly declare their Bulgarophilia and criticize the official statements about the Macedonian history issued by the politicians and historians in the country. In North Macedonia, Georgievski has a reputation for being a Bulgarophile intellectual. In 2006 Georgievski applied for and was granted Bulgarian citizenship, declaring Bulgarian descent. Literary work In 1988 Georgievski graduated from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, specializing in comparative literature. He is the author of two poetry books (Apocalypse and City) and one collection of short stories (Direct Interventions with Short Stories into the Anatomic Structure of History). In late summer of 2007 Georgievski published his book "С лице към истината" ("Facing the truth") in Bulgaria. In it he reveals his attitude to Macedonian identity and Bulgarian past in the Republic of Macedonia. In the Summer of 2012 Georgievski published his autobiographical book "It's me". There he reveals