New Democratic Party of Serbia

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The New Democratic Party of Serbia (Template:Langx, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}, 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).<ref name="stranke">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.Template:Citation needed

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Vojislav Koštunica, founder and the first president of the party

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.<ref name="stranke"/>

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.<ref name="stranke"/>

2000–2008

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 Milošević in the 2000 Yugoslav presidential election held on 24 September 2000 winning 50.24% of the vote.<ref name="stranke"/>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In early May, the National-Democratic Alternative was transformed into a pre-electoral coalition.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> DSS changed its name to New Democratic Party of Serbia following the 15th assembly on 29 May 2022.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Political positions

Initially aligned on the centre-right on the political spectrum,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> it has shifted to the right-wing in the early 2010s.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> A national-conservative party,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="FES">Template:Cite book</ref> it is strongly opposed to the accession of Serbia to the European Union.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="IPS">Template:Cite journal</ref> It has been also described as conservative,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> nationalist,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and populist.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> It was historically supportive of Western integration and European Union, and was a member of the European People's Party until 2012.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, DSS was associated with the European People's Party until 2012, after which it became a member of the European Democrat Group until 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of presidents

Template:No. President Birth–Death Term start Term end
1 style="background:Template:Party color"| Vojislav Koštunica An image of Vojislav Koštunica in 2001 1944– 26 July 1992 19 March 2014
2 style="background:Template:Party color"| Sanda Rašković Ivić An image of Sanda Rašković Ivić at Medija centar 1956– 12 October 2014 2 August 2016
3 style="background:Template:Party color"| Miloš Jovanović An image of Miloš Jovanović in 2023 1976– 21 December 2016 Incumbent

Acting leaders

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Timeline

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Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote Template:No. # of seats Seat change Coalition Status
1992 Vojislav Koštunica 797,831 17.98% Template:Increase 3rd Template:Composition bar Template:Increase 18 DEPOS Template:No2
1993 218,056 5.29% Template:Decrease 5th Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 11 – Template:No2
1997 Election boycott Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 7 – Template:No
2000 2,404,758 65.69% Template:Increase 1st Template:Composition bar Template:Increase 45 DOS Template:Yes2
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2003 678,031 17.96% Template:Decrease 2nd Template:Composition bar Template:Increase 8 DSS–SLS Template:Yes2
2007 667,615 16.83% Template:Decrease 3rd Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 20 DSS–NS–JS–SDPO Template:Yes2
2008 480,987 11.87% Template:Steady 3rd Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 12 DSS–NS Template:No2
2012 273,532 7.32% Template:Decrease 4th Template:Composition bar Template:Steady 0 – Template:No2
2014 152,436 4.38% Template:Decrease 5th Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 21 – Template:No
2016 Sanda Rašković Ivić 190,530 5.19% Template:Decrease 6th Template:Composition bar Template:Increase 6 DSS–Dveri Template:No2
2020 Miloš Jovanović 72,085 2.32% Template:Steady 6th Template:Composition bar Template:Decrease 6 Metla 2020 Template:No
2022 204,444 5.54% Template:Increase 4th Template:Composition bar Template:Increase 7 NADA Template:No2
2023 191,431 5.16% Template:Steady 4th Template:Composition bar Template:Steady 0 NADA Template:No2

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Presidential elections

President of Serbia
Year Candidate 1st round popular vote % of popular vote 2nd round popular vote % of popular vote Notes
1992 Milan Panić Template:No2 1,516,693 34.65% Template:N/a — — Supported Panić, an independent candidate
Sep 1997 Election boycott Election annulled due to low turnout
Dec 1997 Election boycott
Sep–Oct 2002 Vojislav Koštunica Template:Yes2 1,123,420 31.56% Template:Yes2 1,991,947 68.38% Election annulled due to low turnout
Dec 2002 Template:Yes2 1,699,098 59.28% Template:N/a — — Election annulled due to low turnout
2003 Election boycott Election annulled due to low turnout
2004 Dragan Maršićanin Template:No2 414,971 13.47% Template:N/a — —
2008 Velimir Ilić Template:No2 305,828 7.57% Template:N/a — — Supported Ilić
2012 Vojislav Koštunica Template:No2 290,861 7.79% Template:N/a — —
2017 Aleksandar Popović Template:No2 38,167 1.06% Template:N/a — —
2022 Miloš Jovanović Template:No2 226,137 6.10% Template:N/a — —

Positions held

Major positions held by Democratic Party of Serbia members:

President of FR Yugoslavia Years
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
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Notable members

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See also

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