The Goce Delčev University of Štip (Macedonian: Универзитет Гоце Делчев Штип, romanized: Univerzitet Goce Delchev Shtip; abbr. UGD) is a public university in North Macedonia. Founded in 2007, the university has twelve faculties and three academies (as of July 2019). As of the 2018–19 school year, a total of 8,237 students were enrolled at the university. It is named in honour of the revolutionary Goce Delčev.
Dimitar Apasiev (Macedonian: Димитар Апасиев) is a Macedonian legal scholar and politician. He is the leader of the political party The Left and a professor of Law at the Goce Delčev University of Štip. During the 2020 Macedonian parliamentary election, his party won two seats, making him a member of the Assembly of North Macedonia.
The Left (Macedonian: Левица, romanized: Levica) is a far-left, nationalist and eurosceptic political party in North Macedonia. Led by Dimitar Apasiev, a professor of Law at the Goce Delčev University of Štip, the party is anti-NATO and promotes anti-clericalism, anti-fascism, anti-imperialism, and socialism. They have a youth wing called Red Youth (Macedonian: Црвена Младина).