People's Movement of Serbia Народни покрет Србије | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | NPS |
| President | Miroslav Aleksić |
| Parliamentary leader | Miroslav Aleksić |
| Founded | 22 August 2014 (first) 6 August 2023 (second) |
| Dissolved | 22 October 2017 (2017-10-22) (first) |
| Split from | United Regions of Serbia[1] (first) People's Party (second) |
| Succeeded by | People's Party (first) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right[4] |
| Parliamentary group | NPS–NLS |
| Colours | Blue |
| National Assembly | 10 / 250 |
| Assembly of Vojvodina | 5 / 120 |
| City Assembly of Belgrade | 3 / 110 |
| Website | |
| nps | |
ThePeople's Movement of Serbia (Serbian:Народни покрет Србије,Narodni pokret Srbije,NPS) is acentre-rightpolitical party inSerbia.Miroslav Aleksić has been the party's president since its reformation in August 2023.
NPS previously existed from 2014 to 2017 and was also led by Aleksić, who was its only member in theNational Assembly of Serbia. In October 2017, Aleksić allowed the party to be re-registered as thePeople's Party under the leadership ofVuk Jeremić.[5]

Miroslav Aleksić becamemayor of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of theUnited Regions of Serbia (Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS). The URS largely became dormant after the2014 Serbian parliamentary election, and Aleksić left the party later in the year and became acting leader of a breakaway group initially called the People's Party of Serbia (Narodna stranka Srbije, NSS).[6][7][8] The group was formally constituted as the People's Movement of Serbia in January 2015, and Aleksić was chosen as its leader in February.[9][10][11]
The party contested the2016 parliamentary election as part of theAlliance for a Better Serbia list led byBoris Tadić,Čedomir Jovanović andNenad Čanak. Aleksić received the eighth position on the electoral list[12] and was elected when the alliance won thirteen mandates.
The People's Movement of Serbia operated in a parliamentary alliance with Tadić'sSocial Democratic Party, which also contested the 2016 elections in theAlliance for a Better Serbia. Aleksić served as the parliamentary group's deputy leader.[13] Both the alliance with the Social Democratic Party and Aleksić's deputy leadership of the parliamentary group continued after the party was restructured as the People's Party.[14]
NPS was reconstituted on 6 August 2023 after Aleksić left the People's Party.[15] Alongside Aleksić, members of the National AssemblySlavica Radovanović,Borislav Novaković, andĐorđe Stanković, and councillors in theCity Assembly of Belgrade joined the party.[15] Aleksić announced that the party would begin collecting signatures to again become a registered political party.[16] On 25 August, Aleksić announced that they collected over 10,000 signatures.[17] The party was subsequently registered in October 2023.
NPS became part of theSerbia Against Violence coalition in October 2023, a coalition of political parties organising the 2023 protests.[18]
| Year | Leader | Popular vote | % of popular vote | # | # of seats | Seat change | Coalition | Status | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Miroslav Aleksić | 189,564 | 5.17% | 1 / 250 | NPS–SDS–LDP–LSV | Opposition | [19] | ||
| 2023 | 902,450 | 24.32% | 10 / 250 | SPN | Opposition | [20] |