Democratic Serb Party (Montenegro)

Political party in Montenegro

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The Democratic Serb Party (Serbian: Демократска српска странка, Demokratska srpska stranka; DSS) is a minor conservative political party in Montenegro, representing the Serbs of Montenegro.

History

The Democratic Serb Party was formed in 2003 following a split from the Serb People's Party led by Božidar Bojović, who was the first party president, and Ranko Kadić, first vice president and his subsequent successor.^[2]

At the legislative elections held in March 2009, DSS formed a pre-election coalition with the People's Party, but the coalition failed to gain parliamentary status, winning 2,9% of the votes, just below the 3% electoral threshold. At the next election DSS participated in a nationalist coalition Serb National Alliance along with Party of Serb Radicals and Serb National Alliance, which won only 0,85% of votes. In August 2016, the party joined the right-wing Democratic Front (DF) for the 2016 election, and supported ZBCG list for 2020 election.^[3]

Electoral performance

Parliamentary election

Election	Party leader	Performance				Alliance	Government
Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Alliance	Government
2006	Ranko Kadić	47,683	14.07%	2 / 81	New	With SNP-NS	Opposition
2009		9,448	2.9%	0 / 81	2	With NS	Extra-parliamentary
2012		3,085	0.85%	0 / 81	0	With SSR	Extra-parliamentary
2016	Dragica Perović	77,784	20.32%	0 / 81	0	With DF	Extra-parliamentary
2020		133,267	32.55%	0 / 81	0	with ZBCG	Extra-parliamentary
2023		3,630	1.20%	0 / 81	0	with NK	Extra-parliamentary

References

^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2009). "Montenegro". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
^ http://dsscg.com/onama.php Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine DSS - About Us
^ DSS pristupio DF-u, RTCG (2016)