I Live for Krajina Живим за Крајину Živim za Krajinu | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Boško Ničić |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Dissolved | 2017 |
| Merged into | Serbian Progressive Party |
| Headquarters | Zaječar |
| Ideology | Regionalism Decentralization |
I Live for Krajina (Serbian:Живим за Крајину,romanized: Živim za Krajinu) was a regionalist political party inSerbia, centered in theTimok Valley (known asTimočka Krajina in Serbian) in the eastern part of the country. Its leader wasBoško Ničić. The party won two mandates in theNational Assembly of Serbia in the2012 Serbian parliamentary election as part of theUnited Regions of Serbia (URS) alliance.
Boško Ničić founded "I Live for Krajina" inZaječar in 2006. The party contested the2007 Serbian parliamentary election on theelectoral list of theSerbian Renewal Movement, which did not cross thethreshold to win representation in the assembly.[1][2] Subsequently, Ničić joined with the leaders of other regionalist parties andG17 Plus to create the United Regions of Serbia.[3]
The URS list won sixteen mandates in the 2012 parliamentary election, and two "I Live for Krajina" candidates were elected: Ničić, who had received the fourth list position, andIvan Joković, who was fourteenth. Ničić resigned from the assembly on 5 September 2012, as he was also themayor of Zaječar and could not hold adual mandate; his replacement wasRajko Stevanović.[4][5]
The United Regions of Serbia became a unified political party in 2013, and all of its member parties, including "I Live for Krajina", were merged into it at the republic level.[6] The URS failed to cross the electoral threshold in the2014 Serbian parliamentary election, lost its assembly representation, and subsequently dissolved. Ničić later brought "I Live for Krajina" into an alliance with theDemocratic Party for the2016 parliamentary election; the Democratic list won sixteen seats in the assembly, and Ničić, who appeared as the highest-ranked member of his party in the twenty-third position, was not returned.[7]
Ničić joined theSerbian Progressive Party in 2017, taking much of the membership of "I Live for Krajina" with him.[8]
