Secretary of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Macedonia

Secretary of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Macedonia
Secretary of the Presidency of the League of Communists of Macedonia
Macedonian: Секретар на Претседателството на Сојузот на комунистите на Македонија
	Emblems of the LCY
Type	Chief of staff
Member of	SKM Presidency
Appointer	SKM Presidency
Term length	Two years, renewable; (1972–1990)
Constituting instrument	LCY Charter & SKM Charter
Formation	12 November 1966
First holder	Boško Stankovski
Final holder	Tito Petkovski
Abolished	20 April 1991

The secretary was the highest administrative leader of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia (SKM), the ruling party of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (SR Macedonia) in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a branch of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY). The officeholder was elected by and answerable to the SKM Presidency.

Office history

Title	Established	Abolished	Established by
Secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia Macedonian: Секретар на Извршното биро на ЦК на Сојузот на комунистите на Македонија	12 November 1966	12 April 1974	? Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the 4th Congress
Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia Macedonian: Секретар на Извршниот комитет на ЦК на Сојузот на комунистите на Македонија	12 April 1974	8 May 1982	6th Congress of the League of Communists of Macedonia
Secretary of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia Macedonian: Секретар на Претседателството на ЦК на Сојузот на комунистите на Македонија	8 May 1982	20 April 1991	8th Congress of the League of Communists of Macedonia

Secretaries of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia
No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Tenure	Term of office	Birth	PM	Death	Ref.
1	Boško Stankovski	12 November 1966	12 December 1968	2 years, 30 days	4th–5th (1963–1974)	1925	1943	1987	^[1]
2	Angel Čemerski	12 December 1968	20 March 1969	98 days	5th (1968–1974)	1923	1942	2003	^[2]
3	Slavko Milosavlevski	20 March 1969	29 October 1972	3 years, 223 days	5th (1968–1974)	1928	1943	2012	^[3]
4	Boro Denkov	25 November 1972	8 May 1982	9 years, 164 days	5th–7th (1968–1982)	1937	?	2017	^[4]
5	Milan Pančevski	8 May 1982	5 May 1984	1 year, 363 days	8th (1982–1986)	1935	1957	2019	^[5]
6	Jakov Lazaroski	5 May 1984	10 May 1986	2 years, 5 days	8th (1982–1986)	1936	1953	2021	^[6]
7	Mihail Danev	10 May 1986	28 November 1989	3 years, 202 days	9th (1986–1989)	1941	1964	Alive	^[7]
8	Tito Petkovski	28 November 1989	20 April 1991	1 year, 143 days	10th (1989–1991)	1945	?	Alive	^[8]

^ Staff writer 1966, p. 240.
^ Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 96; Stroynowski 1989a, p. 171.
^ Spasenovski 2019, p. 23.
^ Stroynowski 1989a, p. 232.
^ Lewytzkyj & Stroynowski 1978, p. 385; Stroynowski 1989b, p. 741.
^ "Почина Јаков Лазароски, универзитетски професор и претседател на Претседателството на ЦК на СКМ" [Jakov Lazaroski, university professor and president of the SKM CCP Presidency, died]. Nezavisen (in Macedonian). 16 May 2021. Archived from the original on 8 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Jakov Lazaroski predsjednik CK" [Jakov Lazaroski, President of the Central Committee]. Slobodna Dalmacija (in Croatian). 12 May 1986. Archived from the original on 19 September 2023. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
"Данев, Михаил Методиев" [Danev, Mihail Metodiev]. Macedonian Encyclopaedia (in Macedonian). Archived from the original on 19 January 2022. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
^ Bechev 2019, pp. 172–173.

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Spasenovski, Aleksandar (December 2019). "The Transformation of the Macedonian Party System: From Monism Towards Pluralism". Political Thought. 17 (58). Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Institute for Democracy Societas Civilis: 19–38. Archived from the original on 11 June 2023.
Staff writer, ed. (1966). Svjetski almanah [World Almanac] (in Serbo-Croatian). Vol. 4. Novinsko izdavačko poduzeće.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989a). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: A–H. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989b). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: I–O. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Stroynowski, Juliusz, ed. (1989c). Who's Who in the Socialist Countries of Europe: P–Z. K. G. Saur Verlag. ISBN 3-598-10719-6.
Vuković, Zdravko; Rajović, Radošin (1989). Od deformacija SDB do maspoka i liberalizma: Od deformacija SDB do maspoka i liberalizma: moji stenografski zapisi 1966–1972 [From Deformations of SDB to Maspok and Liberalism: My Shorthand Notes 1966–1972] (in Serbo-Croatian). Narodna knj. ISBN 9788633101288.