New Democratic Party of Serbia Нова Демократска странка Србије | |
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| Abbreviation | NDSS |
| President | Miloš Jovanović |
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| Founder | Vojislav Koštunica |
| Founded | 26 July 1992 (1992-07-26) |
| Split from | Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Braće Jugovića 2a,Belgrade |
| Ideology | National conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | International Democrat Union (formerly) |
| Parliamentary group | National Democratic Alternative |
| Colours | Blue |
| National Assembly | 7 / 250 |
| Assembly of Vojvodina | 4 / 120 |
| City Assembly of Belgrade | 0 / 110 |
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TheNew Democratic Party of Serbia (Serbian:Нова Демократска странка Србије,romanized: Nova Demokratska stranka Srbije,pronounced[novademǒkratskaːstrânkasr̂bije], abbr.NDSS), known as theDemocratic Party of Serbia (DSS) until 2022, is anational-conservativepolitical party inSerbia.Miloš Jovanović serves as the current president of NDSS.
DSS was formed as aconservative split from theDemocratic 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 theDemocratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS). Its first leader,Vojislav Koštunica, was electedpresident of Yugoslavia in 2000, a role which he served until 2003. DSS left the DOS government in 2001 and served in the opposition until the2003 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 the2014 parliamentary election, leading to Koštunica resigning from the position as party leader. He was replaced bySanda Rašković Ivić, and in2016, DSS managed to enter theNational Assembly again, this time in a coalition withDveri. Rašković Ivić was ousted after the parliamentary election and was replaced byMiloš Jovanović as president of the party.
A former member of theEuropean People's Party, it maintained acentre-right and moderate conservative image until the early 2010s, when the party shifted to a more right-wing andeurosceptic position. It leads theNational Democratic Alternative (NADA) coalition, which took part in the2022 general election.
The Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) was founded in 1992 by a breakawaynationalist faction of theDemocratic Party (DS), which advocated involvement in theDemocratic Movement of Serbia (DEPOS).[1]
Founding members of the party wereVojislav Koštunica,Vladeta Janković,Đurđe Ninković,Draško Petrović,Mirko Petrović andVladan Batić. The founding assembly was held on 26 July 1992 and electedVojislav Koštunica as its first president. The first party assembly was held on 5 December 1992 and adopted the party's firstmanifesto.[citation needed]
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The DSS first competed in the December 1992 parliamentary elections. As part of DEPOS, the DSS received 18 seats in theNational 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 rulingSocialist Party of Serbia and the DSS's belief inSerbian nationalism led to a division in DEPOS too. The DSS left the coalition in mid-1993.[1]
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 theSerbian 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, oppositionZajedno (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]
The DSS was a founding member of theDemocratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) whose presidential candidate and leader of the DSS, Vojislav Koštunica defeatedSlobodan Milošević in the2000 Yugoslav presidential election held on 24 September 2000 winning 50.24% of the vote.[1]
In the December2000 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 coalitiongovernment, DSS had very little influence with just two cabinet-level ministerial posts, that of Deputy Prime Minister (held byAleksandar Pravdić) and Minister of Health (held byObren 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.[2]
In the2003 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 thePeople's Democratic Party (NDS), one to theSerbian 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 withNew Serbia in the2007 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, theSerbian Democratic Renewal Movement andUnited Serbia.
The leader of the DSS since its foundation, Vojislav Koštunica, was thePrime Minister of Serbia between March 2004 and July 2008 heading up two coalition governments. Thefirst coalition government between March 2004 and July 2007 in coalition withSerbian Renewal Movement andG17 Plus. Thesecond coalition government between July 2007 and July 2008 in coalition with the Democratic Party and G17 Plus.
In the early2008 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 theEU 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 theEU is destroying Serbia and that Serbia should abstain onEU membership. The party subsequently left theEuropean People's Party in February 2012.[3]
The party competed independently in the2012 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 andDejan Mihajlov also announced their departure in response to differences of opinion over the course of DSS.
On 26 January 2021, DSS and theMovement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS) signed an agreement on joint action and agreed on a joint political-program platform called theNational-Democratic Alternative.[4] In early May, theNational-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, whileDejan 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]
Initially aligned on thecentre-right on the political spectrum,[8][9] it has shifted to theright-wing in the early 2010s.[10][11][12][13] Anational-conservative party,[14][15][16] it is strongly opposed to theaccession of Serbia to the European Union.[17][18] It has been also described asconservative,[19][20]nationalist,[21][22] andpopulist.[23][24] It was historically supportive of Western integration andEuropean Union, and was a member of theEuropean People's Party until 2012.[25][26]
Together with thePeople's Party,Serbian Party Oathkeepers, andDveri, it signed a joint declaration for the "reintegration ofKosovo into theconstitutional and legal order of Serbia" in October 2022.[27]
In theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, DSS was associated with the European People's Party until 2012, after which it became a member of theEuropean Democrat Group until 2014.[28]
| # | President | Birth–Death | 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 | .jpg) | 1976– | 21 December 2016 | Incumbent | |
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| Name | Birth–Death | 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 | |
| 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 | 18 | DEPOS | Opposition |
| 1993 | 218,056 | 5.29% |  5th | 7 / 250 | 11 | – | Opposition | |
| 1997 | Election boycott | 0 / 250 | 7 | – | Extra-parliamentary | |||
| 2000 | 2,404,758 | 65.69% | 1st | 45 / 250 | 45 | DOS | Government 2000–01 | |
| – | Opposition 2001–04 | |||||||
| 2003 | 678,031 | 17.96% | 2nd | 53 / 250 | 8 | DSS–SLS | Government | |
| 2007 | 667,615 | 16.83% | 3rd | 33 / 250 | 20 | DSS–NS–JS–SDPO | Government | |
| 2008 | 480,987 | 11.87% |  3rd | 21 / 250 | 12 | DSS–NS | Opposition | |
| 2012 | 273,532 | 7.32% | 4th | 21 / 250 | 0 | – | Opposition | |
| 2014 | 152,436 | 4.38% | 5th | 0 / 250 | 21 | – | Extra-parliamentary | |
| 2016 | Sanda Rašković Ivić | 190,530 | 5.19% | 6th | 6 / 250 | 6 | DSS–Dveri | Opposition |
| 2020 | Miloš Jovanović | 72,085 | 2.32% | 6th | 0 / 250 | 6 | Metla 2020 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2022 | 204,444 | 5.54% | 4th | 7 / 250 | 7 | NADA | Opposition | |
| 2023 | 191,431 | 5.16% | 4th | 7 / 250 | 0 | NADA | Opposition | |
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| 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, anindependent 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 | Miloš Jovanović | 3rd | 226,137 | 6.10% | — | — | — | |
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 |
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