When was the Democratic Party in Serbia formed?
Democratic Party of Serbia
The DSS first competed in the December 1992 parliamentary elections. As part of DEPOS, the DSS received 18 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia - which grew to 20 after non-party-aligned members of DEPOS decided to leave the Parliament. Soon, similar differences of opinion over ways in which to fight the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and the DSS's believe in serbian nationalism led to a division in DEPOS too. The DSS left the coalition in mid-1993.
Aleksandar Senić
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, with Boris Tadić setting up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. This group contested the 2014 election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Senić sided with Tadić in the split, was given the tenth position on the alliance's electoral list, and was elected to a second term when the list won eighteen mandates. Serbian Progressive Party and its allies won a majority of seats, and Tadić's group remained in opposition. The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the Social Democratic Party later in 2014; Senić was considered a close confidante of Tadić at this time.
Independent Democratic Serb Party
It was formed in 1997 led by Vojislav Stanimirović. In the Croatian parliamentary election, 2003, it beat its main rival, the Serb People's Party (SNS), taking all three seats reserved for Serb representatives in the Croatian parliament.
Democratic Party of Serbia
Next parliamentary elections in Serbia were called prematurely for December 19, 1993. This time DSS ran independently and received seven seats. This was a period of the party's political stagnation as most nationalist votes went to the Serbian Radical Party. It did not have enough seats to significantly influence matters in Serbia and was left without representation in the Federal Assembly.
Serbian Radical Party
The Serbian Radical Party (SRS) was formed on 23 February 1991 by the merger of Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Chetnik Movement (SČP) and the National Radical Party (NRS). The SČP had been formed in 1990, although it was denied official registration due to its overt identification with the historical Chetniks. Formation of the new party followed Šešelj's breakaway from the Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) due to internal quarrels with Vuk Drašković; the SPO having been founded by the merger of Šešelj's former Serbian Freedom Movement and Drašković's faction from the Serbian National Renewal. Šešelj was chosen as the first president of the SRS while Tomislav Nikolić, a member of the NRS, became deputy president. Led by Milošević, the Socialist Party (SPS) contributed greatly to the rise of the SRS through its use of the media. With the SRS allowed to promulgate its ultranationalist views on state television, the SPS could present itself as a comparatively moderate, yet still patriotic party. Šešelj promoted popular notions of an "international conspiracy against the Serbs," the foremost of which involved Germany, the Vatican, the CIA, Italy, Turkey, as well as the centrist Serbian political parties. Such conspiracy theories were also promoted by Milošević-controlled media. In 1991, Šešelj became a Member of Parliament as an independent candidate, and created a belligerent image by engaging in physical fights with opponents of the government.
Muamer Bačevac
Rasim Ljajić established the Social Democratic Party of Serbia as a country-wide political party in 2009, with the Sandžak Democratic Party continuing to operate in the Sandžak as a regional ally. For the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, the SDPS joined the "Aleksandar Vučić — Future We Believe In" electoral alliance led by the Serbian Progressive Party. Bačevac received the seventieth position on the alliance's electoral list and was declared elected when the list won a landslide victory with 158 out of 250 mandates. He was promoted to the fortieth position in the 2016 election for the successor "Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning" list and was again returned to the legislature when the alliance won a second consecutive landslide victory.
Ljubomir Tadić
Tadić was one of the founders of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia in December 1989. He was one of the leaders of the pro-European movement in Serbia. Tadić was of the Piva Herzegovinian clan.
Slovenian Democratic Party
In 1991, after a conflict between the leadership and membership of SDU, the Slovenian Democratic Union split into two parties – the social-liberal wing established the Democratic Party (DSS), while the conservative faction founded the National Democratic Party (NDS). Members who did not join one of these two parties joined the Social Democratic Party led by Jože Pučnik. Although the Social Democratic Party suffered a clear defeat in the 1992 election, barely entering Parliament, it formed a coalition with the winning Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) and entered the cabinet of Janez Drnovšek.
History of Serbia
On 23 Jan 1990 at its 14th Congress the Communist League of Yugoslavia voted to remove its monopoly on political power, but the same day effectively ceased to exist as a national party when the League of Communists of Slovenia walked out after Slobodan Milošević blocked all their reformist proposals. On 27 July 1990 Milošević merged the League of Communists of Serbia with several smaller communist front parties to form the Socialist Party of Serbia. A new Constitution was drawn up and came into force on 28 Sep 1990 transforming the one-party Socialist Republic of Serbia into a multi-party Republic of Serbia The first multi-party elections were held on 9 and 23 December 1990 and in what became the pattern for the next several elections the Socialist Party of Serbia won, as Milošević maintained firm control over the state media and opposition parties had little access. On 9 March 1991 a mass rally on the streets of Belgrade turned into a riot with vicious clashes between the protesters and police. It was organized by Vuk Drašković's Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO). Two people died in the ensuing violence.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
At the party conference on 25 November 2012 in Belgrade, then-Mayor of Belgrade and deputy president of the party Dragan Đilas was elected president. For the first time in the party's history, the number of vice-presidents was increased from 5 to 7, and the function of honorary president was established. The new vice-presidents were Miodrag Rakić, Nataša Vučković, Dejan Nikolić, Vesna Martinović, Jovan Marković and Goran Ćirić, while Bojan Pajtić was re-elected as vice-president. Boris Tadić was appointed by acclamation to the new post of honorary president, and Dragoljub Mićunović was re-elected president of the political council.
Meho Omerović
Social Democracy split into two factions in May 2001, after Omerović and several other party members accused leader Vuk Obradović of sexually harassing a female colleague. Obradović's faction subsequently attempted to remove Omerović from the party, without success. Omerović was secretary of the anti-Obradović faction and successfully petitioned the Serbian justice ministry to recognize Slobodan Orlić as leader pending a resolution as to which group held the legal right to the name. In April 2002, Omerović's wing of Social Democracy merged into a new group called the Social Democratic Party (not to be confused with another party of the same name founded in 2014).
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Đinđić got his first chance to gauge the results of his approach before he formally became its president. In October 1993, Serbian president Slobodan Milošević dissolved the parliament, scheduling a parliamentary elections for 19 December 1993. As a result, DS main board met twice that month, on the 16 and 30 October, deciding that Đinđić rather than party president Mićunović will lead the election campaign. Supported by a carefully crafted media and marketing campaign featuring memorable "Pošteno" slogan, DS recorded its best result to date with 497,582 votes, giving them 29 assembly seats. However, despite improvement over previous elections, the party was still well behind Milošević's SPS, DEPOS coalition (headed by Vuk Drašković's SPO), and Vojislav Šešelj's SRS.
Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia)
The Liberal Democratic Party was founded on 5 November 2005 by former members of the Democratic Party, led by Čedomir Jovanović, who were expelled in a party purge in 2004. Jovanović had become critical of the new direction of the Democratic Party and its newly elected president, Boris Tadić. The LDP gained its first seat in parliament after Đorđe Đukić defected from the Democratic Party. Members of the foundation board were: Nenad Prokić, Nikola Samardžić, Branislav Lečić and Đorđe Đukić.
National Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The party was established in 2003. It contested the 2006 general elections in an alliance with the Pensioners' Party, but failed to win a seat in either the national or Republika Srpska elections.
Social Democratic Party of Croatia
On 3 November 1990 the party was officially established in its current form, by dropping the initialism SKH from its name. In the August 1992 election, the first election held according to the new Constitution of Croatia which had been adopted on 22 December 1990, SDP won 5.52% of the popular vote and a total of 11 seats in the 138-seat parliament. In 1993 the party re-branded themselves again and changed their name to the "Social Democratic Party" ("Socijaldemokratska partija"), the name they kept to this day.
Democratic Party (Yugoslavia)
In early 1924, Prime Minister Pašić succeeded in winning the support of some Democratic deputies around Svetozar Pribićević, to reject especially the Croatian demands for more influence. Therefore, the conflict between Pribićević and party leader Ljubomir Davidović heatened. While Pribićević intransigently persisted on the principle of the unitary Yugoslavia, Davidović favoured moderation and concessions considering the Croatian demands. Hence, Pribićević and fourteen fellow lawmakers left the Democratic Party and founded the Independent Democratic Party, which readily joined a "National Bloc" coalition with the Radical Party of Prime Minister Pašić.
Democratic Opposition of Serbia
Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia left the coalition government in July 2001, in protest of the governments decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY, and officially left the coalition in July next year. Social democracy was pushed into the opposition in May 2001 after a split in the party, as the faction which was eventually recognized by the Supreme Court of Serbia as the legitimate name bearer, was not regarded as such by the DOS, which transferred all the positions held by the party members to the other faction's adherents. That faction, having not received the legal recognition, had merged in July 2002 with the Socialdemocratic Union into the Social Democratic Party. In March 2003, after a split in this party, the Socialdemocratic Union was renewed, still being a member of the DOS, while the Social Democratic Party was excluded from the coalition in November 2003, after having announced that it would support the opposition's demand for government's depose. In May 2003, New Serbia was excluded from the coalition after a series of conflicts with the other members. In 2003, New Democracy was renamed into the Liberals of Serbia, and the Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions has founded the Labour Party of Serbia, to which it transferred its membership in the DOS.
People's Democratic Party (Serbia)
The People's Democratic Party (, "Narodna demokratska stranka", NDS) was a political party in Serbia led by Slobodan Vuksanović.
Miodrag Perišić
With a group of like-minded activists, including Zoran Đinđić and Vojislav Koštunica, Perišić re-established the Democratic Party in Serbia in 1989. In summer 1992 he was elected as a member of the first Federal Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as the Minister of Information in the Cabinet of Milan Panić. In the same year, he was elected as the Democratic Party representative in the Federal Parliament. From 1994 to 2000 he was a Vice President of the Democratic Party, and in the period from 1996 to 2000 he was a federal representative elected by the Coalition "Zajedno" ("Together").
People's Democratic Party (Macedonia)
The party was established in July 1990, and was formally registered on 1 August. Iljaz Halimi was appointed party president, whilst Ibrahim Bedredin became secretary. It contested the 1990 parliamentary elections, at a time when Macedonia was still part of Yugoslavia. Running alone, it received 0.4% of the vote in the first round and 0.5% in the second, winning a single seat in the Assembly. It also ran in alliance with the Party for Democratic Prosperity in some areas, with the alliance winning five seats.
Slovenian Democratic Union
After the independence of Slovenia, the party split into two. Its left liberal wing, led by the president Dimitrij Rupel, founded the Democratic Party, while the conservative wing, led by the minister of justice Rajko Pirnat established the centre-right National Democratic Party. In the election of 1992, both parties suffered a defeat. The Democratic Party gained 5,01% of the popular vote, and in 1994, most of its members joined the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. The National Democratic Party obtained 2,18% of the vote and no seats in Parliament. In 1993, the National Democrats joined the Slovene Christian Democrats, and in 1995 they switched to the Slovenian Social Democratic Party.
Croatian War of Independence
In February 1990, Jovan Rašković founded the Serb Democratic Party (SDS) in Knin, whose program aimed to change the regional division of Croatia to be aligned with ethnic Serb interests, Prominent members of the RSK government including Milan Babić and Milan Martić, later testified that Belgrade directed a propaganda campaign that portrayed the Serbs in Croatia as being threatened with genocide by the Croat majority. On 4 March 1990, 50,000 Serbs rallied at Petrova Gora, and shouted negative remarks aimed at Tuđman, chanted "This is Serbia", and expressed support for Milošević.
Democratic Party of Serbia
The Democratic Party of Serbia (, , Serbian abbreviation: ДCC / DSS) is a national-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Serbia.
Branka Karavidić
The DS experienced a serious split in early 2014, with former leader Boris Tadić setting up a new breakaway group that was originally called the New Democratic Party. This party contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Karavidić sided with Tadić in the split. She received the twelfth position on the new coalition's list and was re-elected when it won eighteen seats. The New Democratic Party re-constituted itself as the Social Democratic Party later in the year and continued to serve in opposition.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Only several days prior to the elections, Čavoški left DS thinking that the conditions for a free and fair elections were not yet present in Serbia. Other DS members like Nikola Milošević, Vladan Vasilijević, and film director Saša Petrović accompanied him. By January 1991 they formed the Serbian Liberal Party (SLS), a conservative liberal party that favoured a monarchy instead of a republic and pushed for the rehabilitation of the politically-persecuted Serbs that were sentenced, exiled, or executed by the post-World War II communist Yugoslav authorities. SLS also wanted the Serbian government to set up an office whose job would be to comprehensively work on collecting, marking, and commemorating the Serbian victims of the Balkan Wars, World War I, and World War II. Čavoški's lasting legacy in the party was that its party program stated until 1997 that "DS is working towards the re-unification of Serbian lands".
Democratic Party (Yugoslavia)
The party won the largest number of deputies in the first elections held in 1920: they could occupy 92 of the 419 seats in the constituent assembly. From 1 January 1922 on, they participated in the government of Prime Minister Nikola Pašić of the People's Radical Party. Together with the People's Radical Party, the Democrats were the main supporters of the constitution passed on 28 June 1921. Members of the Democratic Party were significantly involved in the foundation of the "Organization of Yugoslav Nationalists" (ORJUNA) in 1921. In the 1923 elections, the party's number of deputies in the National Assembly dropped to 51. In May 1924, the Democrats joined the Oppositional Bloc against the Pašić government, appealing for a democratic Yugoslavia and calling for a fair share in the government for Croatians and Slovenes.
Democratic Opposition of Serbia
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (), commonly referred to as DOS, was a wide alliance of political parties in Serbia, intent on ousting the ruling Socialist Party and its leader, Slobodan Milošević. Its presidential candidate, Vojislav Koštunica, defeated Milošević in the 2000 general election, while the DOS secured a majority of seats in the National Assembly. The coalition was able to form a government and selected Zoran Đinđić for Prime Minister.
Marko Đurišić (politician)
The Democratic Party contested the 2003 Serbian election at the head of its own alliance and won thirty-seven mandates. Đurišić was included on its electoral list; although not initially selected as part of its delegation, he was awarded a mandate on February 17, 2004, as a replacement for another candidate who had resigned. He was subsequently chosen as president of the Democratic Party's executive board. The Democratic Party was not part in government during this sitting of parliament, and Đurišić served in opposition. In August 2005, he attended an event in Poland celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Solidarity.
Democratic Party of Serbia
The leader of the DSS since its foundation, Vojislav Koštunica, was the Prime Minister of Serbia between March 2004 and July 2008 heading up two coalition governments. The first coalition government between March 2004 and July 2007 in coalition with Serbian Renewal Movement and G17 Plus. The second coalition government between July 2007 and July 2008 in coalition with the Democratic Party and G17 Plus.
Christian Democratic Party of Serbia
The party was founded in 1997 by Vladan Batić after leaving the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), following disagreements with its leader Vojislav Koštunica.
Democratic Party of Federalists
Dragan Đokanović established Democratic Party of Federalists in Belgrade, Serbia.
The party was officially registered in 2003.
Dušan Milisavljević
The Democratic Party contested the 2008 Serbian parliamentary election at the head of an electoral alliance called For a European Serbia. Milisavljević received the 127th position on its list, which was largely arranged in alphabetical order. He was again not initially selected for the party's assembly delegation but was awarded a mandate on September 2, 2008, as a replacement for Miloš Simonović. The Democratic Party was the leading force in the government of Serbia during this period, and Milisavljević served as part of its parliamentary majority.
Svetozar Pribićević
Pribićević's Croat-Serb coalition quickly fused with political groupings from other parts of the former Austria-Hungary and a new party, the Democratic Party, was founded in Sarajevo. This began negotiations with the Pašić's radicals but negotiations quickly fell through. Instead they joined with the Serbian opposition (including the party of Ljubomir Davidović) to form a block that was to dominate the Provisional Representation which served as a Parliament until the election of the Constituent Assembly. This block itself formed into a party which in 1920 adopted the name the Democratic Party in 1920. Even though Ljubomir Davidović was the leader, Pribićević had as much, if not more, influence on the policy of the party. In the elections for the Constituent Assembly, the Democratic Party did significantly worse in the former Austria-Hungarian regions which weakened Pribićević's influence in the Party. However, in alliance with the Radicals the Democratic party managed to ensure that the new constitution would have the centralized form that, at the time, Pribićević supported.
Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak
The Party of Democratic Action of Sandžak (SDA) was founded on 29 July 1990 in Novi Pazar, as a branch of the Party of Democratic Action based in Sarajevo, which was then a pan-Yugoslav political party. The branch was founded in order to protect the interests of Muslims of Sandžak, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. The leadership of the SDA included Sulejman Ugljanin, president of the SDA, Harun Hadžić, president of the SDA of Montenegro, Numan Balić, president of the SDA of Kosovo and Metohija and Riza Halili, president of the SDA of Preševo.
Đurđe Ninković
Djurdje Ninković, (born 1942) is a lawyer, legal commentator and political activist who was a founding member of the Democratic Party (DS) in Serbia who joined the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989. From late December the meetings of the Founding Committee and later the Executive Committee of the DS took place in his law offices in Belgrade where the "Pismo o namerama" ("Letter of intent"), the first party political program of the DS, was drafted and published in January 1990. At this time the central office of the DS was also located in Mr. Ninković's law offices in hotel Astoria for a few months.
Serbian Liberal Party
On 22 January 1991 academicians Nikola Milošević and Kosta Čavoški, Mićunović's former opponent in the intra-party election, as well as director Aleksandar Petrović, left the Democratic Party to form the Serbian Liberal Party. The party was also supported by other prominent academicians such as Vasilije Krestić, Smilja Avramov, Milo Lompar and Žarko Trebješanin.
Social Democratic Party (Serbia)
Tadić revealed in February 2014 his intention to secede from the Democratic Party and to form a new party to take part in the 2014 parliamentary election. But, after realizing that they don't have enough time to register a new party before the election, Tadić and his supporters made a deal with the Greens of Serbia. As part of this deal, Tadić and his supporters joined the Greens of Serbia, and then on 10 February 2014 the name of the party was changed to the "New Democratic Party – Greens". Although Ivan Karić was still officially president of this party, Tadić became its de facto leader. Party then participated in the 2014 parliamentary election under that name in coalition with Together for Serbia, League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina and some other minor parties. This coalition won 5.7% of the electoral vote and 18 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. Of these, 11 seats were allocated to the "New Democratic Party – Greens", but only one to the original Greens (Ivan Karić) and 10 to the group around Boris Tadić.
Independent Democratic Party of Serbia
The Samostalni DSS was formed in 2015 via a split in the Democratic Party of Serbia ("Demokratska stranka Srbije", DSS). Its leader was Andreja Mladenović, who was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election as a Samostalni DSS candidate on the electoral list of the governing Serbian Progressive Party.
Serbian Party of Socialists (Croatia)
The Serbian Party of Socialists was the branch in Croatia of Serbian President Slobodan Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia which was created in the areas under the control of rebel Serbs of Croatia (so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina). In 1993, Milan Martić ran for President of Serbian Krajina and received heavy financial support from the Milošević government. In a second round of voting in 1994 he was elected President and remained in power until the fall of Serbian Krajina during the Croatian Operation Storm in 1995.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Ahead of the December 1993 parliamentary elections DS was in advanced negotiations with SPS about forming a coalition between the two parties. Following the summer 1993 disintegration of SPS' coalition with SRS, Milošević turned to DS. Opposed by party leader Mićunović, the idea of a coalition with Milošević found a more receptive audience among some other DS members, including Đinđić. The issue of the DS' coalition negotiations with Milošević is still controversial with certain DS members such as Zoran Živković denying that they ever took place. Others like Mićunović and high-ranking member Goran Vesić claimed they had indeed taken place.
Democratic Alternative (Serbia)
The Democratic Alternative (; abbr. DA) was a political party in Serbia. It was founded in July 1997 by secession of certain members from the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), most notably Nebojša Čović who served as the party's president during its entire existence. It later merged into the Social Democratic Party (SDP), whom its leadership took over.
Democratic Party of Slovenia
In the second free elections in Slovenia, celebrated in autumn of 1992, the party gained 5.01% of the vote and 6 MPs. In 1994, the majority of the party membership and 3 of its 6 MPs decided to join the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia. The minority of the party re-founded the party and continued an independent political activity. In the election of 1996, the Democratic Party received 3.3% of the vote and remained without parliamentary representation. In 2007, the party signed a cooperation agreement with the Social Democrats.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
At the party conference on 31 May 2014 in Belgrade, then-President of the Government of Vojvodina and deputy president of the party Bojan Pajtić was elected president. Borislav Stefanović, Nataša Vučković, Goran Ješić, Maja Videnović and Gordana Čomić were elected vice-presidents, while Dragoljub Mićunović was re-elected president of the political council.
Christian Democratic Party of Serbia
On 12 October 2017, the DHSS merged into the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). Party president Olgica Batić stated full support for the Movement's primary goals - traditional values, preserving the family, the fight for Serbian farmers and the full membership of Serbia in the European Union.
Branko Ninić
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, when former leader Boris Tadić set up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. Ninić sided with Tadić in the split. The new party contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Ninić received the ninety-fourth position on the alliance's electoral list; the list won only eighteen mandates, and he was not elected to the National Assembly of Serbia. The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the Social Democratic Party ("Socijaldemokratska stranka", SDS) later in the year.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
On 11 December 1989, a group of Serbian intellectuals held a press conference announcing the revival of the Democratic Party, which had existed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia before it was banned by the communists following World War II.
Dragiša Lapčević
Dragutin "Dragiša" Lapčević (; 1867–1939) was a Serbian politician, journalist, and historian. He was one of the founders, alongside Dimitrije Tucović, of the Serbian Social Democratic Party (existed 1903-1918), that supported a Balkan Federation during the Kingdom of Serbia. He was a staunch opposer of Greater Serbia.
Democratic Party of Serbia
The party competed independently in the 2012 parliamentary elections in May 2012 and received around 7% of the popular vote (273,532 votes) translating into 21 Members of Parliament.
Oliver Dulić
He entered political life in 1996, when he was one of leaders of the students protest in Belgrade, and a member of his Initiative board, and later Otpor! movement, as well as a member of the Serbian Renewal Movement. He joined the Democratic Party in 1997. He was the president of the party's local board in Subotica in two terms. From 2000 to 2006 he was vice-president of Provincial Board of DS in Vojvodina. He is also a member of the party's Main committee. From 2001 to 2003 Dulić was head of North Bačka District. In 2003, he was an MP of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro. On local elections 2003, he was beaten by Géza Kucsera by just a hundred votes From 2006, he is a member of Presidency of Democratic Party.
Dragan Čavić
On 11 December 2008, Dragan Čavić at a press conference announced his retirement from the SDS and the launch of a new party, together with the RS MP Vojislav Gligić and Branislav Škobo, also former SDS MPs. On 15 January 2009 in Banja Luka Čavić registered the Democratic Party of Republika Srpska, whose co-founders are Momcilo Novaković, Vojislav Gligić, Branislav Škobo and Djordje Milićević. Since 2010 he is a deputy of this party in the Parliament of Republika Srpska.
Vlatko Ratković
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, with Boris Tadić setting up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. Ratković sided with Tadić and was accordingly dismissed from his government position on 6 February 2014; this decision was condemned by the new party. Tadić's party contested the 2014 parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Ratković received the forty-first position on their electoral list; the list won eighteen mandates, and he was not returned. The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the SDS later in the year.
Mirko Petrović (politician)
He was a member of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party in December 1989. He was the youngest Member of Parliament of Serbia, elected on the Democratic Party list in December 1990, and was an elected member of the Executive Committee and the General Committee of the Democratic Party (1990–92).
Democratic Party (Serbia)
In the 2014 parliamentary election, the Democratic Party made a coalition with the New Party, Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina, Rich Serbia and United Trade Unions of Serbia "Unity" under the name of "With the Democratic Party for Democratic Serbia". This coalition won 6.03% of the popular vote and 19 MPs, out of which DS received 17. After the end of the parliamentary election, Dragan Đilas announced an extraordinary party assembly session and ran for re-election as the president of the party. His opponent was deputy president Bojan Pajtić.
Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians
On 19 December 1989, in the eve of multi-party system in Serbia, a group of 11 activists started an initiative for creation of an authentic organization of Hungarians in Serbia. Democratic Fellowship of Vojvodina Hungarians was formed on 31 March 1990 in Doroslovo, a village in northern Vojvodina. Its first leader was András Ágoston. On the first post-communist parliamentary elections in Serbia held the same year, they won 2.64% of the vote, earning 8 seats in the National Assembly.
Goran Ćirić
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Ćirić received the eleventh position on the Democratic Party's electoral list in the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election and returned to the assembly after an eleven-year absence when the list won nineteen mandates. He was promoted to the seventh position in the 2016 election and was declared re-elected when the list won sixteen mandates. Ćirić replaced Bojan Pajtić as leader of the Democratic Party's parliamentary group in October 2016. The Serbian Progressive Party has led a coalition government since 2012, and the Democratic Party has served in opposition throughout this time.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Throughout January 1990 the Founding Committee worked on publicising the party's proposed political program and its democratic aims. It worked on gathering potential party members to ensure a successful founding conference. It finally organised the founding conference of the renewed Democratic Party on 3 February 1990 at which the party was formally re-established by several hundred founder members, including former members from the 1940s and a younger generation of new members. At the founding conference the founder members elected the party President, the Executive and General Committees tasked with running the party. Following the founding conference the party started establishing local committees and networks throughout Serbia.
Đorđe Stojšić (Serbian politician, born 1977)
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, when former leader Boris Tadić established a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party and later renamed as the Social Democratic Party. The LSV sided with Tadić and contested the 2014 parliamentary election as part of his alliance. Stojšić received the fourteenth position on the new coalition list and was elected to a second term when the list won eighteen mandates. The LSV remained in opposition. In late 2015, Stojšić strongly criticized Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's decision to construct a barbed-wire fence on its borders to with Serbia and Croatia to restrict migration from refugees travelling through these countries.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
In the first two weeks of January the Founding Committee drafted the political program of the soon to be re-established Democratic Party which was published on 18 January 1990 as the "Pismo o namerama" (Letter of intent) to inform the public of the democratic principles and policies which the Democratic Party would pursue. The Letter of Intent was signed by all the 22 Members of the Founding Committee.
Democratic Party of Serbia
Founding members of the party were Vojislav Koštunica, Vladeta Janković, Đurđe Ninković, Draško Petrović, Mirko Petrović and Vladan Batić. The founding assembly was held on July 26, 1992 and elected Vojislav Koštunica as its first president. The first party assembly was held on December 5, 1992 and adopted the party's first manifesto.
Milan Stamatović
From 1996 to 2000, Stamatović was a member of the Democratic Movement of Serbia in opposition to Slobodan Milošević. In 2000, he joined the Democratic Party of Serbia, which he represented until 2014. In 2014, Stamatović, Nenad Popović, and others left DSS to form the Serbian People's Party. In Čajetina's municipal election in April 2016, Stamatović campaigned with the support of a DSS-PUPS-SNP coalition and was elected to his fourth mandate with 56.33% of the vote, resulting in a rare loss of the state-ruling SNS.
Queen's Astoria Design Hotel
Hotel Astoria played a role in the development of democracy in Serbia, as it was the place where the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party held meetings in the law office of Mr Ninkovic (which the family had retained for use within the hotel building after nationalization) from the end of December 1989, in preparation for the re-establishment of the Democratic Party (DS). It was also the site where the Democratic Party's first political program was published in January 1990, and the site of the preparations for founding party conference held in February of that year. Following the founding party conference, the Democratic Party had its first central office in the hotel between February and October, 1990.
Đurđe Ninković
He left the DS with the pro-DEPOS coalition wing of the party and was a founding member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) in July 1992 with Vojislav Koštunica, Vladeta Janković, Mirko Petrović, Draško Petrović, Vladan Batić and others. Initially, for the first few months, the administrative central office of the DSS was also located in his law offices in hotel Astoria. He was elected to the DSS' General Committee at the founding party conference.
Zoran Dragišić
Dragišić was a founding member of Vuk Obradović's Social Democracy (; SD) party. This party eventually became divided and factionalized, and in January 2008 Dragišić established a breakaway group called the Independent Social Democrats (, NSD). He stated that the latter party's goal was to unify Serbia's left-wing forces for the upcoming 2008 national elections, that it was "on the verge" of signing a coalition agreement with the Socialist Party of Serbia, and that the left should rally around Democratic Party incumbent Boris Tadić in the 2008 presidential election. He added that most NSD members had been opponents of Slobodan Milošević's government in the 1990s but that it no longer made sense for Serbian politics to be divided along the lines of former supporters and former opponents of the Milošević regime.
Konstantin Samofalov
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. Samofalov received the sixty-first position on the DS's Choice for a Better Life list and was re-elected when the list won sixty-seven mandates. The Serbian Progressive Party formed a new government with the Socialists after the election, and the DS moved to the opposition. Samofalov was a deputy member of Serbia's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in the parliament that followed. He was also re-elected to a second term in the Vračar municipal assembly in the concurrent 2012 local elections.
The DS experienced a serious split in early 2014, with former leader Boris Tadić setting up a new breakaway group that was originally called the New Democratic Party. This party contested the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Samofalov sided with Tadić in the split and received the twenty-third position on the new coalition list; he narrowly missed re-election when the list won eighteen seats. The New Democratic Party re-constituted itself as the Social Democratic Party later in the year, and Samofalov was one of its founding members.
Slobodan Inić
Slobodan Inić (born 1946 in Zrenjanin, Serbia, DF Yugoslavia - died June 22, 2000) was a political commentator and professor of sociology at the University of Belgrade. He was one of the founders of the Democratic Party in Serbia, Yugoslavia in December 1989.
Milan Stanimirović
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, with Boris Tadić setting up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. This group contested the 2014 election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Stanimirović sided with Tadić in the split and was given the thirty-fourth position on the alliance's electoral list; the list won eighteen mandates and he was again not returned. The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the SDS later in the year.
Prečani (Serbs)
In the Habsburg lands – in Kingdom of Dalmatia, the Serbs established the Serb People's Party, while in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia they established the Serb Independent Party. In 1918 the Prečani Serbs formed a notable political constituency that participated in the founding of the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs as well as the joining of Banat, Bačka and Baranja with the Kingdom of Serbia. In the first Yugoslavia, their political party, the Independent Democratic Party was important in national politics. After the invasion of Yugoslavia, they were the main target of the World War II persecution of Serbs.
Bogdan Radenković
The Serb Democratic League in the Ottoman Empire (Serbian: Српска демократска лига у Отоманској царевини) was an Ottoman Serb political organisation established on August 13, 1908, at the First Serb Conference (August 10–13), immediately after the Young Turk Revolution. Some 26 most distinguished Serbs in the Ottoman Empire attended and Bogdan Radenković was selected to head the "Temporary Central Board of the Organization of Ottoman Serbs" in July 1908. Bishop Vicentije Krdzić of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Skopje headed the clergy and Bogdan Radenković the lay membership of the "Assembly of Ottoman Serbs in Skopje", held on Sretenje in 1909. These organizations included the Serb elite of Old Raška, Kosovo and Metohija, and Vardar Macedonia and Aegean Macedonia.[1] It included many members of the Serbian Chetnik Organization as well. They were: Bogdan Radenković; Aleksandar Bukvić; Gligorije "Gliša" Elezović; Vasa Jovanović; Milan Čemerikić; Sava Stojanović; David Dimitrijević; Đorđe Hadzi-Kostić; Velimir Prelić and Jovan Šantrić.
Democratic Party (Yugoslavia)
The Yugoslav Democratic Party, "State Party of Serbian, Croatian and Slovene Democrats" and Democratic Party was the name of a series of liberal political parties that existed in succession in the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia).
Milan Grol
Grol remained director of the National Theatre until the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914. The war prompted him to relocate to Geneva, where he headed the Serbian Press Bureau from 1915 until 1918. After World War I, he and politician Ljubomir Davidović founded the Democratic Association, which later became the Democratic Party. Grol was again named director of the National Theatre in 1918, and held this position until 1924. In 1922, he and Kosta Jovanović founded the "Nedeljni glasnik" (Sunday Herald), which called for constitutional reform, the lessening of centralism, and more political agreement between Croatia and Serbia. Following the outbreak of a political crisis with the Democratic Party, Grol began editing "Odjek" again and split with Davidović following Svetozar Pribićević's departure from the party. Grol was twice elected to the parliament of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, in 1925 and 1927. He was a member of a Yugoslav coalition government consisting of Democrats, Radicals and the Slovene People's Party, and served as Minister of Education until 1929, when he reunited with Davidović and joined the opposition. In 1929, Grol joined the Kolarčeve Foundation Committee and organized the Kolarčev People's University in Belgrade. He began publishing "Odjek" again in 1936. Following Davidović's death in 1940, Grol became president of the Democratic Party. He became the Kolarčev People's University first director in 1941. He joined the government of Dušan Simović in March 1941 and went into exile following the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia that April.
Democratic Opposition of Serbia
Dragoljub Mićunović, the DOS candidate, performed poorly in the 2003 presidential election and was even beaten by 11% by Tomislav Nikolić, candidate of the nationalist Serbian Radical Party. Since only 38% of the electors voted, the presidential election was cancelled for the third time in a row. Therefore, the DOS was disbanded on 18 November 2003. The disbanding was mostly decided by the Democratic Party, the party founded by the then Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, who was assassinated on 12 March 2003.
Greens of Serbia
In early 2014 the ZS had signed political cooperation with the New Democratic Party, a political fraction of the Democratic Party led by its former leader and the nation's president Boris Tadić. Originally agreeing to form a political cooperation and jointly go at the forthcoming 2014 elections, by mid-February 2014 the NDS had collectively joined the Greens, who chose a new Statute, program and Tadić as their party leader, officially preregistering under the name "New Democratic Party–Greens". On 14 June 2014, the New Democratic Party seceded and became independent political party, so the name of the party was changed again to "Greens of Serbia".
Serb Independent Party
After World War I, in 1919 its members mostly joined the Yugoslav Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, created by a merger of a wide range of political parties and coalitions, the one from Croatia being the Croato-Serb coalition. The individualism of the SNSS members, though, was never fully erased, and in 1924 most of the former members left JDS and formed the Independent Democratic Party, under the same leadership of the SNSS (president Svetozar Pribicevic).
Milorad Pupovac
At the beginning of 1995 he participated in the founding of the Independent Serb Party, and with founding of the Action of Social Democrats of Croatia he was involved in the activity of that party and as their representative he entered the Sabor after elections held in 1995. He cast the decisive vote needed to achieve the 2/3 majority necessary to amend the Croatian Constitution on 12 December 1997. It was the first amending of the Constitution since its adoption on 22 December 1990 and the major amendments included the investiture of the Croatian War of Independence into the Constitution's text, as well as the adoption of articles prohibiting the beginning of negotiations on Croatia's entrance into associations with any former Yugoslav republics and articles defining the national minorities of Croatia. After that he founded the Independent Democratic Serb Party, led by Vojislav Stanimirović. On the list of that party he was a candidate for the Croatian Parliament several times. He succeeded Stanimirović as the president of the party in July 2017.
Predrag Jelenković
Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful electoral lists. The Liberal Democratic Party contested the 2012 parliamentary election as part of the Preokret coalition, alternately known in English as Turnover or U-Turn; Jelenković received the forty-third position on its list and, as the list won only nineteen seats, was not elected. He resigned from the Liberal Democratic Party later in the year and formed a new political party called "Nišku priču" in 2013. This party endorsed the Social Democratic Party of Serbia in the 2014 election, and it fully merged into the SDPS the following year.
Democratic Centre (Serbia)
At the 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, the party won 5 seats on the list of the Democratic Party. After the elections, it merged into the Democratic Party.
Dragan Jočić
He has been a member of the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) since its inception until 2014. He also served as the party vice-president and has been a member of the party's executive board since its founding. From 1992 to 1997, he was an MP in the Serbian parliament. He was also a city council member and has been a member of the Belgrade City Council since 2000.
Social Democratic Party (Serbia 2001–10)
The Social Democratic Party (; abbr. SDP) was a social democratic political party in Serbia.
Socialist Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Formed on 2 June 1993 in Banja Luka, it served as one of the first democratic alternatives to nationalist government of Republika Srpska. After the signing of the Dayton Accord, the party became a vocal opponent of the government of Radovan Karadžić and the Serbian Democratic Party.
Kosta Čavoški
He was one of the thirteen initiators of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party in Serbia on 11 December 1989. He was one of the leading members of the Founding Committee of the Democratic Party who drafted the first party political program of the Democratic Party published as the Letter of Intent (Pismo o namerama) on 18 January 1990. However, within a year he left the Democratic Party along with Professor Nikola Milošević and others to found his own political entity, the Serbian Liberal Party.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
On 30 January 2014, the honorary president of the Democratic Party, former party leader and former President of Serbia Boris Tadić left the party. He was a member of the party since its re-founding in 1990. Others that followed him were Jelena Trivan, Snežana Malović and vice-president Miodrag Rakić, as well as a number of MPs and former ministers. They founded a new party called the New Democratic Party.
Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Radovan Karadžić founded the Serb Democratic Party in 1990. The party aimed at unifying the Bosnian Serb community, as Jovan Rašković's Serb Democratic Party did with the Serbs in Croatia, and staying part of Yugoslavia (as the "Third Yugoslavia" with Serbia and Montenegro) in the event of secession by those two republics from the federation.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
The Democratic Party (, ДC / Demokratska stranka, DS, ) is a social-democratic and social-liberal political party in Serbia. It is the major centre-left party in Serbia and is the fifth largest party in the National Assembly. The Democratic Party is a full member of the Socialist International, the Progressive Alliance, and is an associate member of the Party of European Socialists.
Željko Brestovački
The Democratic Party experienced a serious split in early 2014, with Boris Tadić setting up a breakaway group initially called the New Democratic Party. This group contested the 2014 election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. Brestovački sided with Tadić in the split and was given the sixty-fourth position on the alliance's electoral list. The list won eighteen mandates, and he was not returned. The New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the SDS later in the year, and Brestovački was elected as president of the party's Vojvodina executive committee in June 2015. He is also the president of the SDS's organization in Šid, and in September 2015 he became deputy mayor of the municipality when the party entered a new local coalition government.
Zdravko Stanković
The Democratic Party subsequently split into two factions, with Tadić creating a breakaway group called the New Democratic Party in 2014. This group contested the 2014 election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties; following the election, the New Democratic Party was reconstituted as the SDS. Stanković sided with Tadić in the split, was a founding member of the new party, and has held positions in its leadership. He appeared in the twenty-ninth position on Tadić's list in the 2014 election; the list won eighteen mandates and he was once again not elected.
Social Democratic Party of Croatia
In 1990, a parallel Social Democratic Party of Croatia (, SDSH) was founded. It was later renamed to the Social Democrats of Croatia ("Socijaldemokrati Hrvatske", SDH). Like most parties created at the time, it was opposed to the communist government and wanted Croatia to secede from Yugoslavia, yet it had the distinction of being one of the few to present itself as left-wing. The party founders included many prominent intellectuals, including Antun Vujić and Miroslav Tuđman This party claimed that it was continuing tradition of the historical Social Democratic Party of Croatia, created in 1894 and merged in 1919 into the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Communist Party (Serbia)
The Communist Party ( / "Komunistička partija", "KP") is a communist party in Serbia. It was founded in Belgrade on 28 November 2010, after two smaller communist parties (the New Communist Party of Serbia (NKPS) and the Social Democrats from Novi Sad) united with a group of communists led by Josip Joška Broz.
Nikola Milošević (politician)
In political sphere he was a conservative liberal. He was one of the founders of the re-established Democratic Party in Serbia in 1990. After quarrels with party's leader prof. Dragoljub Mićunović, Nikola Milošević, together with a group of ten prominent members of the Democratic Party, established a new party – the Serbian Liberal Party. This party advocated liberal and anti-communist ideas and boycotted all elections during the reign of Slobodan Milošević (1990–2000). In 2003 Nikola Milošević became a member of the Serbian Parliament since the Serbian Liberal Party participated in December 2003 elections as a coalition partner of the Democratic Party of Serbia.
1990 Croatian parliamentary election
On 17 February 1990, the Serb Democratic Party was founded, but failed to spread its organization significantly beyond Knin. Generally, organizational skills of the parties varied significantly; only SKH candidates stood for election in every constituency. The HDZ did not field candidates in 82 constituencies (25 for the Council of Municipalities and 57 for the Council of Associated Labour).
Democratic Party of Serbia
The DSS was a founding member of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) whose presidential candidate and leader of the DSS, Vojislav Koštunica defeated Slobodan Milosevic in the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election held on 24 September 2000 winning 50.24% of the vote and defeating Slobodan Milošević who contested the election results.
Branislav Lečić
Besides acting, he also took part in political life, being the leader of "Plišana revolucija" (Plush Revolution), during the reign of Slobodan Milošević. After the victory of the DOS in the 2000 presidential elections, he was named the Minister of culture in the government of the late Zoran Đinđić. After Čedomir Jovanović left Democratic Party (Serbia), Lečić followed, and became one of the founders of LDP. Soon afterwards, he left LDP, and founded the "Moja Srbija" (My Serbia) Movement, taking part in Serbian elections in 2008. In early 2010 he and his party merged into the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia. After the death of its founder and long-term leader Vladan Batić due to prolonged and progressive cancerous illness, Lecic was elected DHSS party president.
Srđan Šaper
With Nebojša Krstić he joined the Democratic Party in 1990 and in 1993 started working on political campaigns, later with his own company "Idols & Friends" formed in 1995. The following year Nebojša Krstić and Piloti singer Zoran Lesendrić Kiki and he formed Dobrovoljno Pevačko Društvo. The band released only one album "Nedelja na Duhove" and disbanded.
Radicalism (historical)
The 'Free-Minded' parties, located mainly in the Netherlands, Scandinavia and German-speaking countries, included:In Mediterranean Europe, Radical parties were often labelled 'Democratic' liberal parties:Radicalism had played a pivotal role in the birth and development of parliamentarism and the construction of the modern Serbian state leading to the Yugoslavian unification. The People's Radical Party formed in 1881 was the strongest political party and was in power in the Kingdom of Serbia more than all others together. The 1888 Constitution of the Kingdom of Serbia that defined it as an independent nation and formalised parliamentary democracy was among the most advanced in the entire world due to Radical contribution and it is known as "The Radical Constitution". In 1902, a crack had occurred in which the Independent Radical Party left and "the Olde" remained in the party, leading the original People's Radical Party to stray far from progressivism and into right-wing nationalism and conservatism. In the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent Radicals united with the rest of the Serbian opposition and the liberal and civic groups in the rest of the new country, forming the Yugoslav Democratic Party, while several Republican dissidents formed a Republican Party. The NRS had promoted Serb nationalism and put itself as the defender of Serb national interests. Democrats and Radicals were the dominant political parties, especially since the exclusion of the Communists.
Democratic Centre (Serbia)
The Democratic Centre (, "Demokratski centar") was a political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1996 by Dragoljub Mićunović, former president of the Democratic Party (DS) when he left the DS.
Jovan Rašković
In early 1990, Rašković went into politics and founded the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS), which took part in first democratic elections. He noticed that there was no equivalent party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and contacted Radovan Karadžić, a colleague, to suggest for him to establish one.
Socialist People's Party (Serbia)
The Socialist People's Party is a political party in Serbia founded by Branislav Ivković, a former member of the Socialist Party of Serbia. Ivković was a candidate in the first round of elections for President of Serbia in 2002, winning 1.2% of the vote. In the 2003 re-run of the previous elections, their candidate was Dragan Tomic, who won 2.2% of the vote. In the final re-run of the elections in 2004, Ivković was again the party's candidate, winning 0.4% of the vote. On the 2006 parliamentary election the party ran on the coalition of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia and the Social Democratic Party that failed to pass the minimum vote percentage requirement.
Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia 1989)
Liberal-Democratic Party (; transliteration into the Latin alphabet: "Liberalno Demokratska Stranka") is a liberal party in Serbia, founded on December 14, 1989. It claims heritage of the Liberal Party, founded in 1858.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Milošević's fall in October 2000 occurred after further street protests. The Democratic Party was the largest party of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia block that won 64.7% of the votes in the December 2000 elections, getting 176 of 250 seats in the Parliamentary Assembly. In 2001 Đinđić was appointed Prime Minister of Serbia at the head of the first post-Milošević government on 25 January 2001.
Democratic Party (Serbia)
The following year, on 15 April 1995, regular party conference was held and Đinđić got re-elected as party president. Labus and Perišić stayed vice-presidents while Slobodan Gavrilović and Zoran Živković became vice-presidents as well. Disappointed and marginalized ever since his resignation from the position of the party president 14 months earlier, Mićunović left DS after this conference, founding non-governmental organization Centre for Democracy that eventually transformed into Democratic Centre (DC). Others that followed him to DC were Desimir Tošić, Vida Ognjenović, Bora Kuzmanović, as well as many other prominent, though mostly older, DS party members. Mićunović offered the following as his view of the events of the period:
Vojislav Koštunica
He was one of the founders and the first president of the Democratic Party of Serbia since its creation in 1992 until 19 March 2014, when he resigned as party president and retired from active politics after his party failed to reach 5% threshold to enter the Parliament on March 16 elections for the first time in its history. In October 2014, he left the party after disagreements with new party leadership over what he saw as their abandonment of the policy of political neutrality.
Democratic Party of Republika Srpska
The party was established in 2009 by Dragan Čavić, who left the Serbian Democratic Party. In 2013 it merged with the National Democratic Party to form the National Democratic Movement.