Dveri

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Serbian Movement Dveri
Српски покрет Двери
Srpski pokret Dveri
PresidentBoško Obradović
Vice Presidents
  • Ivan Kostić
  • Milovan Jakovljević
  • Tamara Milenković-Kerković
Founded
  • 27 January 1999 (1999-01-27) (organization)
  • 28 June 2015 (2015-06-28) (party)
HeadquartersĐorđa Jovanovića 11, Belgrade
NewspaperDveri srpske
Youth wingDveri Youth
Ideology
Political positionRight-wing[17]
ReligionSerbian Orthodox Church
International affiliationWorld Congress of Families
Colours  Red   Blue   White
SloganFor the life of Serbia
Anthem
„Химна за живот Србије"
Himna za život Srbije
"An anthem for the life of Serbia"
National Assembly
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Assembly of Vojvodina
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City Assembly of Belgrade
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Party flag
Dveri flag.svg
Website
dveri.rs

The Serbian Movement "Dveri" (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски покрет Двери, romanized: Srpski pokret Dveri; meaning doors) is a right-wing populist and national conservative political party in Serbia. The leader and founder of the movement is Boško Obradović.

Dveri were formed in 1999 as a Christian right-wing youth organization gathered around the eponymous student magazine. Throughout the 2000s they operated as a non-governmental organization, promoting values of nationalism, Orthodox Christianity and family. In the 2010s they became a full-scale political party, participating in the 2012 general elections onwards. For the 2016 elections they formed a coalition with the conservative Democratic Party of Serbia, which entered the National Assembly with 5.02% of the popular vote and earning 13 seats, 7 of which belong to Dveri. They were a part of the Alliance for Serbia from 2018 to 2020 and they boycotted the 2020 parliamentary election.

History[]

Organization (1999–2011)[]

Dveri were founded by Branimir Nešić in 1999 as a Christian right-wing youth organisation consisting mainly of students from the University of Belgrade which regularly arranged public debates devoted to the popularisation of clerical-nationalist philosophy of Nikolaj Velimirović,[18] a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church who was canonized in 2003 and is considered a major anti-Western thinker.[19]

The organization promotes a pronounced Serbian nationalist ideology. Based on the assessment of partiality and lack of condemnation of crimes by another ethnicity,[20] Dveri opposed a resolution passed by the Serbian parliament in March 2010 which condemned the Srebrenica massacre committed by the Bosnian Serb Army in eastern Bosnia in 1995,.[21] Dveri also fiercely oppose unilateral proclamation of independence of Kosovo and Metohija.[22] It is also well known for its opposition to gay rights.[22]

In October 2010 the very first Gay Pride parade was held in Belgrade, in which thousands of anti-gay protesters clashed violently with police units securing the parade participants. One of the far-right groups which organized the anti-gay protest were Dveri, and a member of the organization was quoted by The Economist as saying that the protest was a form of "defense of the family and the future of the Serbian people".[23]

In August 2011, in the run up to the 2011 Pride Parade in Belgrade, the organisation warned that organising such an event could feed social unrest and provoke riots, and added that if the government allowed the march to go forward that "Belgrade will burn like London burned recently".[24] In fear of more violent clashes, the authorities eventually decided to cancel the event, a decision which was criticised by human rights groups such as Amnesty International, which specifically singled out Dveri and Obraz as the main right-wing nationalist groups responsible for "orchestrating opposition to the Pride".[25]

Citizen's group (2011–2015)[]

DSS-Dveri coalition in December 2015

In March 2012 the movement collected 14,507 signatures to register as an electoral list for the May 2012 Serbian parliamentary election.[26] The Dveri Movement received 4.35% of the popular vote, failing to pass the 5% minimum threshold to enter parliament.

In September 2012 Dveri leader Vladan Glišić called for a "100-year ban" on pride parades in Belgrade, describing such an event as "promotion of a totalitarian and destructive ideology" and accused the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia of being influenced by a "gay lobby".[27]

In September 2013, in the run-up to another attempted gay pride march in Belgrade, Boško Obradović said that the event amounted to "the imposition of foreign and unsuitable values, laid out before minors - the most vulnerable section of society".[28]

In 2014, the eurosceptic Democratic Party of Serbia of ex-Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica was considering options about the formation of a "Patriotic Bloc" which would stand up to the political elite's dominating pro-EU stance, the coalition being called forth by the Dveri (with the Serbian Radical Party mentioned as a potential third coalition partner) movement. However, DSS initially rejected the proposal, stating that the proposed parties did not fully embrace DSS positions and that they merely want to join to enter the parliament.[29] Dveri again ran alone in the March 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, winning 3.58% of the vote, failing again to pass the 5% minimum threshold to enter parliament. They were characterized by many as a far-right party at this point of time.[22][30]

Modern period (2015-present)[]

In November 2014 Dveri and the Democratic Party of Serbia declared that they would contest the next elections as the "Patriotic Bloc" alliance.[31] In January 2015 PULS and the SLS also joined the bloc.[32] Parliamentary elections were held on 24 April 2016, in which the "Patriotic Bloc" won 5.04% of the vote (13 seats, of which Dveri had 7). After this election, for the first time in history, they became a parliamentary party.

Dveri announced on 3 September 2016 that Boško Obradović, the president of Dveri, will be their candidate on the 2017 presidential election. On 10 March, Boško Obradović submitted his signatures for the candidacy to RIK. In the end, he only got 2.16% of the vote on the presidential election.

In 2018, local elections were held in Belgrade and Bor on 4 March. Dveri announced that they will be forming a coalition with Enough is Enough under the name "Dosta je Bilo i Dveri - Da ovi odu, a da se oni ne vrate". In Belgrade, the coalition won 3.89% of the vote, while in Bor they won 8.17% of the vote (3 seats). Local elections were also held in Lučani on 16 December 2018. They participated with the coalition Alliance for Serbia and they won 9.57% of the vote (4 seats). Local elections were also held on the same day in Kladovo, Doljevac, and Kula but Dveri and other parties from Alliance for Serbia boycotted those elections.

Promena sistema - sigurnost za sve

In 2018 they were one of the founding members of the catch-all opposition Alliance for Serbia which boycotted the 2020 parliamentary election. In October 2018, a controversy sparked around the member Srđan Nogo who said that "Ana Brnabić and Aleksandar Vučić should be publicly hanged". Other members of Dveri including the president Boško Obradović opposed this and in early 2019 he was expelled from the party. During the entire existence of the Alliance for Serbia, they were the only eurosceptic party (besides Healthy Serbia who left in early 2020). The coalition was dissolved in August 2020 after an agreement to form a wider coalition of opposition parties called United Opposition of Serbia in which Dveri decided to not participate. In late September, Dveri announced their new political program called "Promena sistema - sigurnost za sve" which was showcased to the public until the end of 2020. In this new program, Dveri officially adopted environmentalism and Christian democracy and since then, they have shifted away from their former far-right stances. Some observers have described them as shifting more towards the center while some claim that they did not abandon their far-right views.

Presidents of Dveri[]

# President Born–Died Term start Term end
1 Boško Obradović 1976– 28 June 2015 Incumbent

Electoral results[]

Parliamentary elections[]

National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalitions Status
2012 Vladan Glišić 169,590 4.34%
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 Steady no seats
2014 Boško Obradović 128,458 3.58%
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 Steady no seats
2016 190,530 5.04%
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 Increase 7 With DSS opposition
2020 Election boycott
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 Decrease 7 SzS no seats
2022
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Presidential elections[]

President of Serbia
Election year # Candidate 1st round votes % 2nd round votes % Notes
2012 8th Vladan Glišić 108,303 2.77 — —
2017 Increase 6th Boško Obradović 83,523 2.28 — —

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "EU's Mogherini booed in Serbian parliament ahead of Balkan summit". reuters.com. Reuters. 3 March 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Bakić, Jovo (February 2013), Right-Wing Extremism in Serbia (PDF), Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, retrieved 18 March 2019, It is reasonable to assume that the Serbian Radical Party lost some of its votes to Dveri, a highly conservative but not, or at least not yet, a far-right ideological and political movement, instead espousing a turn-of-the-twen- tieth-century conservatism much like Joseph de Maistre’s. This movement evidently enjoys the support of the more conservative parts of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and expressly rejects the fascist tradition, anti-Semitism and the use of violence to achieve ideological aims. It does, however, foster extreme conservatism, promoting the family as the most important social institution and advocating a religious-moralistic outlook. As one might expect, this movement fosters an explicitly homophobic position, evident in its organisation of Family Walks on the day before the Pride Parade; but it does not incite its supporters to physically assault the LGBT population. Following the Russian model, in 2012 it called on the government to ban the Parade for the next 100 years. Serbian nationalism and anti-globalisation (expressed in an anti-American orientation and a reserved attitude to the EU) are clearly important components of Dveri ideology so that one can say that it exhibits certain symptoms of the far right but these are not sufficient to classify the movement as such.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2016). "Serbia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 10 June 2020.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c Ljubomir Delevic (6 November 2013). "Introduction to nationalism in Serbia". your-art.sk. Retrieved 18 March 2019.
  5. ^ "The Dveri Movement Through a Discursive Lens: Serbia's Contemporary Right-Wing Nationalism". Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  6. ^ Passarelli, Gianluca (2018). The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans. Springer. p. 60.
  7. ^ "Desni populisti i ekstremisti u Europi". dw.com. Deutsche Welle. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  8. ^ "Dveri won't join United Opposition of Serbia, party official says". N1. 5 August 2020.
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  14. ^ "Dveri predstavile paket od 12 mera za podršku domaćoj privredi". rs.n1info.com (in Serbian). N1. 21 December 2020.
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  19. ^ Buchenau, Klaus (2005). "From Hot War to Cold Integration? Serbian Orthodox Voices on Globalization and the European Union". Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press. p. 64. ISBN 9780759105362.
  20. ^ https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/dveri-u-srebrenici-se-nije-desio-genocid/xn1jdbd
  21. ^ "Right wing movement to take part in elections". B92. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  22. ^ Jump up to: a b c Barlovac, Bojana (26 August 2011). "Serb Far-Right Group Prepares Poll Debut". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
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  27. ^ "Socialists described as having "strong gay lobby"". B92. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  28. ^ Vasovic, Aleksandar (26 September 2013). "Serbian gay rights activists say to march despite threats". Reuters. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  29. ^ [1] Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS): Коштуница: ДСС самостално на изборе (in Serbian Cyrillic). 2 February 2014.
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  31. ^ DSS i Dveri formirali patriotski blok RTS, 18 November 2014
  32. ^ Uz DSS i Dveri sada i PULS i SLS Blic, 30 January 2015

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