Party of Modern Serbia

Political party in Serbia

The Party of Modern Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Странка модерне Србије, romanized: Stranka moderne Srbije, abbr. SMS) is a liberal political party in Serbia. It was established on 14 December 2018 around former MPs from Enough is Enough.

History

Five MPs that left the opposition parliamentary group Enough is Enough created their own movement Centre Movement in May 2018.[1] After negotiations with Social Democratic Alliance, they formed a new party, Party of Modern Serbia on 14 December 2018.[2] On 23 December new collective leadership was elected. The movement currently has 5 MPs in National Assembly and 3 in Vojvodina Assembly.[3][4][5] They also have representatives in Medijana, Valjevo, Rakovica, Zvedara and Stari grad municipalities.[6] On 24 January one MP joined the Party of Modern Serbia, making the total number of seats in the Assembly 6.[citation needed]

Party of Modern Serbia supported protests against president Aleksandar Vučić, and took role in opposition negotiations in January and February 2019.[citation needed]

List of presidents

Party of Modern Serbia is ruled by a collective presidency.[7]

No. Name Born–Death Term start Term end
1 Tatjana Macura 1981– 23 December 2018 2020
Nebojša Leković 1964– Incumbent
Aleksandar Stevanović 1976–

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia
Year Popular vote % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status Ref.
2020 30,591 0.99% 13th
0 / 250
Decrease 6 UDS Extra-parliamentary [8]
2022 Did not participate
0 / 250
Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary

Presidential elections

President of Serbia
Year Candidate # 1st round popular vote % of popular vote # 2nd round popular vote % of popular vote Notes Ref.
2022 Did not participate

References

  1. ^ "Centre movement formed". Centre movement. 18 May 2018.
  2. ^ "Formirana Stranka moderne Srbije". N1 Srbija (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Registrovana jo jedna stranka - Stranke moderne Srbije". B92.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  4. ^ "National Assembly members". Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Vojvodina Assembly members".
  6. ^ "Representatives".
  7. ^ "Formirana Stranka moderne Srbije". N1. 23 December 2018.
  8. ^ Kovačević, Miladin (2020). Izbori za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije [Elections for Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 9. ISBN 978-86-6161-193-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
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