New Democratic Party of Serbia
New Democratic Party of Serbia Нова Демократска странка Србије Nova Demokratska stranka Srbije | |
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Abbreviation | NDSS |
President | Miloš Jovanović |
Vice-Presidents |
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Founder | Vojislav Koštunica |
Founded | 26 July 1992 |
Split from | Democratic Party |
Headquarters | Braće Jugovića 2a, Belgrade |
Ideology | National conservatism |
Political position | Right-wing |
National affiliation | National Democratic Alternative |
Colours | Blue |
National Assembly | 7 / 250 |
Assembly of Vojvodina | 4 / 120 |
City Assembly of Belgrade | 4 / 110 |
Website | |
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The New Democratic Party of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Нова Демократска странка Србије, romanized: Nova Demokratska stranka Srbije, pronounced [nova demǒkratskaː strânka sr̂bije], abbr. NDSS), known as the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) until 2022, is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Miloš Jovanović serves as the current president of NDSS.
DSS was formed as a conservative split from the Democratic Party (DS) and has played a key role in the opposition during the 1990s. It was a part of the "Together" coalition and was later a founding member of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS). Its first leader, Vojislav Koštunica, was elected president of Yugoslavia in 2000, a role which he served until 2003. DSS left the DOS government in 2001 and served in the opposition until the 2003 parliamentary election, after which it managed to form a government with other right-wing parties. Koštunica was appointed prime minister, and after 2008, it went to the opposition again after being unable to form a government. It saw its decline in the 2010s and failed to pass the threshold in the 2014 parliamentary election, leading to Koštunica resigning from the position as party leader. He was replaced by Sanda Rašković Ivić, and in 2016, DSS managed to enter the National Assembly again, this time in a coalition with Dveri. Rašković Ivić was ousted after the parliamentary election and was replaced by Miloš Jovanović as president of the party.
A former member of the European People's Party, it maintained a centre-right and moderate conservative image until the early 2010s, when the party shifted to a more right-wing and eurosceptic position. It leads the National Democratic Alternative (NADA) coalition, which took part in the 2022 general election.
History
1992–2000
The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) was founded in 1992 by a breakaway nationalist faction of the Democratic Party (DS), which advocated involvement in the Democratic Movement of Serbia (DEPOS).[1]
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 26 July 1992 and elected Vojislav Koštunica as its first president. The first party assembly was held on 5 December 1992 and adopted the party's first manifesto.[citation needed]
Next parliamentary elections in Serbia were called prematurely for 19 December 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.
In 1996, opposition Zajedno (Together) coalition was created. DSS entered the 1996 federal parliamentary elections as part of the coalition and won four seats in the Federal Assembly.[1]
2000–2008
The DSS was a founding member of the
In the December
In the 2003 parliamentary election, the DSS won 17.7% of the popular vote, translating into 53 seats in the parliament. Of these 53 seats, three went to the People's Democratic Party (NDS), one to the Serbian Liberal Party and one to the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS).
In 2004 NDS left the coalition with DSS, leaving it with 50 seats in the National Assembly. However, in 2005 both the NDS and the SDS merged into the DSS, bringing its size to 52 seats in the National Assembly.
The DSS won 47 seats in coalition with New Serbia in the 2007 parliamentary election, receiving 667,615 votes or 16.55% of the total popular vote. DSS itself received 33 seats in the parliament, and formed a group together with New Serbia, the Serbian Democratic Renewal Movement and United Serbia.
The leader of the DSS since its foundation, Vojislav Koštunica, was the
2008–2014
In the early 2008 parliamentary election held in May 2008 following the self-proclaimed declaration of independence by the Serbian province of Kosovo, the DSS won 30 seats in the National Assembly in coalition with New Serbia. It won 480,987 votes representing 11.62% of the electorate. In coalition with New Serbia 2008–10, it formed the second largest opposition block in the Serbian parliament.
Since 2008 the DSS has positioned itself as a staunch defender of the premise that Kosovo should remain within Serbia (in some shape or form) and that further negotiations must take place to determine a workable political outcome regarding Kosovo and Serbia. Because of this approach, the DSS is against Serbia joining the EU if in return it is bound to acknowledge the legitimacy of the self-proclaimed independent Kosovo.
The party has become increasingly nationalist and eurosceptic since the independence of Kosovo. In 2012, Vojislav Koštunica stated that the EU is destroying Serbia and that Serbia should abstain on EU membership. The party subsequently left the European People's Party in February 2012.[3]
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.
2014–present
In 2014, founder and first president of DSS Vojislav Koštunica left the party over its abandonment of the idea of political neutrality. Subsequently, Slobodan Samardžić, Dragan Jočić, Vladeta Janković and Dejan Mihajlov also announced their departure in response to differences of opinion over the course of DSS.
On 26 January 2021, DSS and the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) signed an agreement on joint action and agreed on a joint political-program platform called the National-Democratic Alternative.[4] In early May, the National-Democratic Alternative was transformed into a pre-electoral coalition.[5] On 24 May, the 14th party assembly was held in which Jovanović was re-elected as the president of the party, while Dejan Šulkić, Zoran Sandić, and Predrag Marsenić were elected as vice-presidents.[6] DSS changed its name to New Democratic Party of Serbia following the 15th assembly on 29 May 2022.[7]
Political positions
Initially aligned on the centre-right on the political spectrum,[8][9] it has shifted to the right-wing in the early 2010s.[10][11][12][13] A national-conservative party,[14][15][16] it is strongly opposed to the accession of Serbia to the European Union.[17][18] It has been also described as conservative,[19][20] nationalist,[21][22] populist,[23][24] and Christian democratic.[25] It was historically supportive of Western integration and European Union, and was a member of the European People's Party until 2012.[26][27]
Together with the People's Party, Serbian Party Oathkeepers, and Dveri, it signed a joint declaration for the "reintegration of Kosovo into the constitutional and legal order of Serbia" in October 2022.[28]
In the
List of presidents of the Democratic Party of Serbia
# | President | Born–died | Term start | Term end | |
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1 | Vojislav Koštunica | 1944– | 26 July 1992 | 19 March 2014 | |
2 | Sanda Rašković Ivić | 1956– | 12 October 2014 | 2 August 2016 | |
3 | Miloš Jovanović | 1976– | 21 December 2016 | Incumbent |
Acting leaders
Ref:[30]
Name | Born–died | Term start | Term end | ||
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Aleksandar Popović | 1971– | 19 March 2014 | 12 October 2014 | ||
Dragan Maršićanin | 1950– | 2 August 2016 | 21 December 2016 |
Electoral performance
Parliamentary elections
Year | Leader | Popular vote | % of popular vote | # | # of seats | Seat change | Coalition | Status |
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1992 | Vojislav Koštunica | 797,831 | 17.98% | 3rd | 18 / 250
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18 | DEPOS | Opposition |
1993 | 218,056 | 5.29% | 5th | 7 / 250
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11 | – | Opposition | |
1997
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Election boycott | 0 / 250
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7 | – | Extra-parliamentary | |||
2000 | 2,404,758 | 65.69% | 1st | 45 / 250
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45 | DOS | Government 2000–01 | |
– | Opposition 2001–04 | |||||||
2003 | 678,031 | 17.96% | 2nd | 53 / 250
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8 | DSS–SLS | Government | |
2007 | 667,615 | 16.83% | 3rd | 33 / 250
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20 | DSS–NS–JS–SDPO | Government | |
2008 | 480,987 | 11.87% | 3rd | 21 / 250
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12 | DSS–NS | Opposition | |
2012 | 273,532 | 7.32% | 4th | 21 / 250
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0 | – | Opposition | |
2014 | 152,436 | 4.38% | 5th | 0 / 250
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21 | – | Extra-parliamentary | |
2016 | Sanda Rašković Ivić | 190,530 | 5.19% | 6th | 6 / 250
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6 | DSS–Dveri | Opposition |
2020 | Miloš Jovanović | 72,085 | 2.32% | 6th | 0 / 250
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6 | Metla 2020 | Extra-parliamentary |
2022
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204,444 | 5.54% | 4th | 7 / 250
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7 | NADA | Opposition | |
2023 | 191,431 | 5.16% | 4th | 7 / 250
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0 | NADA | TBA |
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Presidential elections
Year | Candidate | 1st round popular vote | % of popular vote | 2nd round popular vote | % of popular vote | Notes | ||
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1992 | Milan Panić | 2nd | 1,516,693 | 34.65% | — | — | — | Supported Panić, an independent candidate |
Sep 1997 | Election boycott | Election annulled due to low turnout | ||||||
Dec 1997 | Election boycott | |||||||
Sep–Oct 2002 | Vojislav Koštunica | 1st | 1,123,420 | 31.56% | 1st | 1,991,947 | 68.38% | Election annulled due to low turnout |
Dec 2002 | 1st | 1,699,098 | 59.28% | — | — | — | Election annulled due to low turnout | |
2003 | Election boycott | Election annulled due to low turnout | ||||||
2004 | Dragan Maršićanin | 4th | 414,971 | 13.47% | — | — | — | |
2008 | Velimir Ilić | 3rd | 305,828 | 7.57% | — | — | — | Supported Ilić |
2012 | Vojislav Koštunica | 4th | 290,861 | 7.79% | — | — | — | |
2017 | Aleksandar Popović | 10th | 38,167 | 1.06% | — | — | — | |
2022
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Miloš Jovanović | 3rd | 226,137 | 6.10% | — | — | — |
Positions held
Major positions held by Democratic Party of Serbia members:
President of FR Yugoslavia | Years |
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Vojislav Koštunica | 2000–2003 |
Prime Minister of Serbia | Years |
Vojislav Koštunica | 2004–2008 |
President of the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro |
Years |
Zoran Šami | 2004–2006 |
President of the National Assembly of Serbia | Years |
Dragan Maršićanin | 2001
2004 |
Notable members
See also
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