Democratic Opposition of Serbia Демократска oпозиција Cрбије
Abbreviation	DOS
Founders	Zoran Đinđić Vojislav Koštunica
Founded	10 January 2000 (2000-01-10)
Dissolved	18 November 2003 (2003-11-18)
Headquarters	Belgrade
Ideology	Anti-Milošević
Political position	Big tent[1]
Slogan	"DOS, normalno"("DOS, normally")
Chamber of Citizens of the FRY (2000)	58 / 138
Chamber of Republics of the FRY (2000)	10 / 40
National Assembly of Serbia (2000)	176 / 250
Website
dos.org.yu (archived)
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TheDemocratic Opposition of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic:Демократска oпозиција Cрбије,romanized: Demokratska opozicija Srbije, abbr.DOS) was a wideelectoral alliance of political parties inSerbia, intent on ousting the rulingSocialist Party of Serbia and its leader,Slobodan Milošević.^[2]

Its presidential candidate,Vojislav Koštunica, defeated Milošević in the2000 general election, while the DOS secured a majority of seats in theNational Assembly. The coalition was able to form a government and selectedZoran Đinđić forPrime Minister.^[3]

Koštunica'sDemocratic Party of Serbia left thecoalition government in July 2001, in protest of the governments decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to theICTY, 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 theSupreme 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 theSocial Democratic Union into theSocial Democratic Party.

In March 2003, after a split in this party, the Social Democratic 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 theLiberals of Serbia, and theAssociation of Free and Independent Trade Unions founded theLabour Party of Serbia, to which it transferred its membership in the DOS.

Dragoljub Mićunović, the DOS candidate, performed poorly in the2003 presidential election and was even beaten by 11% byTomislav Nikolić, candidate of the ultranationalistSerbian 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.^[4] The disbanding was mostly decided by the Democratic Party, the party founded by the thenPrime MinisterZoran Đinđić, whowas later assassinated on 12 March 2003.

Major positions held by Democratic Opposition of Serbia members:

• Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević

• 2000 establishments in Serbia
• 2003 disestablishments in Serbia
• Defunct political party alliances in Serbia
• Democracy movements
• Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević
• Political opposition alliances
• Political parties disestablished in 2003
• Political parties established in 2000

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