Democratic Party of Serbia
Democratic Party of Serbia Демократска странка Србије Demokratska stranka Srbije | |
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Leader | Miloš Jovanović |
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Founder | Vojislav Koštunica |
Founded | 26 July 1992 |
Split from | Democratic Party |
Headquarters | Belgrade |
Membership (2011) | 100,000[1] |
Ideology |
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Political position | Centre-right[6][7] to right-wing[8][9] |
National affiliation | National-Democratic Alternative |
National Assembly | 0 / 250 |
Assembly of Vojvodina | 4 / 120 |
City Assembly of Belgrade | 0 / 110 |
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The Democratic Party of Serbia (Serbian: Демократска странка Србије, romanized: Demokratska stranka Srbije, pronounced [demǒkratskaː strânka sr̂bije]; abbr. ДCC or DSS) is a national-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Serbia.
History[]
Foundation[]
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).[10]
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]
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1992–1999[]
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 belief in Serbian nationalism led to a division in DEPOS too. The DSS left the coalition in mid-1993.[10]
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.[10]
Post–2000[]
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.[10]
In the December 2000 Serbian parliamentary election, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia won 64.7% of the popular vote, securing 176 seats in the National Assembly. The DSS was allocated 45 seats. In the ensuing Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition government, DSS had very little influence with just two cabinet-level ministerial posts, that of Deputy Prime Minister (held by Aleksandar Pravdić) and Minister of Health (held by Obren Joksimović) as well as very few second tier posts of Deputy Minister. The DSS was unhappy with the direction of the DOS Government policy and split from the coalition in late 2001.[11]
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 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.
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.[12]
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.
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.[13] In early May, the National-Democratic Alternative was transformed into a pre-electoral coalition.[14] 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.[15]
Presidents of the Democratic Party of Serbia (1992–present)[]
# | 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:[16]
showName | Born–died | Term start | Term end |
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Electoral results[]
Parliamentary elections[]
Election | Leader | # of votes | % of vote | # of seats | +/- | Coalitions | Status |
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1992 | Vojislav Koštunica | 797,831 | 16.89% | 18 / 250
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DEPOS | opposition |
1993 | 218.056 | 5.07% | 7 / 250
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opposition | ||
1997 | Election boycott | 0 / 250
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2000 | 2,402,387 | 64.09% | 45 / 250
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DOS | government 2000–01 | |
opposition 2001–04 | |||||||
2003 | 678,031 | 17.73% | 53 / 250
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government | ||
2007 | 667,615 | 16.55% | 33 / 250
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With NS-JS | government | |
2008 | 480,987 | 11.62% | 21 / 250
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With NS | opposition | |
2012 | 273,532 | 6.99% | 21 / 250
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opposition | ||
2014 | 152,436 | 4.24% | 0 / 250
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no seats | ||
2016 | Sanda Rašković Ivić | 190,530 | 5.04% | 6 / 250
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With Dveri | opposition |
2020 | Miloš Jovanović | 72,085 | 2.24% | 0 / 250
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Metla 2020 | no seats |
2022 | 0 / 250
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NADA |
Years in government (1992– )[]
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Presidential elections[]
Election year | # | Candidate | 1st round votes | % | 2nd round votes | % | Notes |
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1992 | ![]() |
Milan Panić | 1,516,693 | 32.11 | — | — | Independent candidate; support |
1997 | |||||||
Sep–Oct 2002 | ![]() |
Vojislav Koštunica | 1,123,420 | 30.89 | 1,974,450 | 68.4 | Election declared invalid due to low turnout |
Dec 2002 | ![]() |
Vojislav Koštunica | 1,699,098 | 57.66 | — | — | Election declared invalid due to low turnout |
2003 | |||||||
2004 | ![]() |
Dragan Maršićanin | 414,971 | 13.31 | — | — | Government Coalition (Democratic Party of Serbia, G17 Plus, Serbian Renewal Movement, New Serbia) |
2008 | ![]() |
Velimir Ilić | 305,828 | 7.43 | — | — | Supported by: Democratic Party of Serbia, United Serbia, Serbian Renewal Movement and List for Sandžak |
2012 | ![]() |
Vojislav Koštunica | 290,861 | 7.44% | — | — | |
2017 | ![]() |
Aleksandar Popović | 38,167 | 1.04% | — | — |
Election year | Candidate | # | 1st round popular vote | % of popular vote | # | 2nd round popular vote | % of popular vote |
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2000 | Vojislav Koštunica | 1st | 2,470,304 | 50.24% | N/A | — | — |
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 | 2004 |
Notable members[]
See also[]
- Politics of Serbia
- List of political parties in Serbia
References[]
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- ^ "Serbian Opposition Boycotts Parliament, Demands Snap Election". Voice of America. 11 February 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
- ^ Borger, Julian; Beaumont, Peter (18 February 2008). "Kosovo: the key figures". The Guardian.
- ^ "Vukadinović: DSS, Dveri i SRS nisu ekstremna desnica". www.blic.rs.
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- ^ "DSS napustio Evropsku narodnu partiju" (in Serbian). Radio-televizija Srbije. 25 February 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
- ^ "DSS i POKS potpisali Sporazum o zajedničkom delovanju". www.danas.rs (in Serbian). Danas. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
- ^ "DSS i POKS potpisali koalicioni sporazum". rs.n1info.com (in Serbian). N1. 6 May 2021.
- ^ "Članovi DSS izabrali rukovodstvo stranke, Jovanović ostaje predsednik". rs.n1info.com (in Serbian). N1. 24 May 2021.
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