The Macedonian National Movement (abbreviated MANAPO) (,The modern Macedonian word for "movement" is движење, but before the language was codified some Macedonians used the Serbian word покрет transliterated: Makedonski Nacionalen Pokret) was a leftist movement started in 1936 among the progressive Macedonian students in the Belgrade, Zagreb and some other universities in interwar period. Numerous members of the groups subsequently joined Yugoslav Partisans with promient one being the future first president of independent Macedonia Kiro Gligorov. In 26 August 1936 at the University of Zagreb a group of Macedonian students belonging to the group signed the Political Declaration, an illegal document requesting political and social emancipation of Macedonians in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.