People's Movement of Serbia

Political party in Serbia

The People's Movement of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Народни покрет Србије, romanized: Narodni pokret Srbije, abbr. NPS) is a political party in Serbia. 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 the National Assembly of Serbia. In October 2017, Aleksić allowed the party to be re-registered as the People's Party under the leadership of Vuk Jeremić.[5]

History

2014–2017

Logo of the first iteration of the People's Movement of Serbia (2015–2017)

Miroslav Aleksić became mayor of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of the United Regions of Serbia (Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS). The URS largely became dormant after the 2014 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 the 2016 parliamentary election as part of the Alliance for a Better Serbia list led by Boris Tadić, Čedomir Jovanović and Nenad 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's Social Democratic Party, which also contested the 2016 elections in the Alliance 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]

2023–present

NPS was reconstituted on 6 August 2023 after Aleksić left the People's Party.[15] Alongside Aleksić, members of the National Assembly Slavica Radovanović, Borislav Novaković, and Đorđe Stanković, and councillors in the City 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 the Serbia Against Violence coalition in October 2023, a coalition of political parties organising the 2023 protests.[18]

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status Ref.
2016 Miroslav Aleksić 189,564 5.17% Increase 7th
1 / 250
 Increase 1 NPS–SDS–LDP–LSV Opposition [19]
2023 902,450 24.32% Increase 2nd
12 / 250
 Increase 8 SPN TBA

References

  1. ^ "Bane Jovanović ima novu stranku".
  2. ^ Kojić, Nikola (21 July 2023). "Od izbora dva putića: U kom pravcu Narodnu vodi Jeremić, a gde je vidi Aleksić" [Two paths from the election: In which direction does Jeremić lead Narodna, and where does Aleksić see Narodna?]. N1 (in Serbian). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Oppositions-Querfront gegen Vučic – Gemäßigtere Töne zum Kosovo aus Serbien". www.fr.de (in German). 10 December 2023.
  4. ^ "List submitted by the largest opposition coalition "Serbia Against Violence" officially proclaimed". European Western Balkans. 9 November 2023. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  5. ^ "'Blic': Jeremić u oktobru osniva Narodnu stranku, B92, 28 September 2017, accessed 20 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Analyst says reassembling Serbian opposition impossible with old leaders," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 8 July 2014 (Source: Politika website, Belgrade, in Serbian 7 Jul 14).
  7. ^ "Do kraja godine osnivačka skupština Narodne stranke Srbije", Blic, 22 August 2014, accessed 14 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Nismo zvali Dinkića za lidera", Danas, 21 September 2014, accessed 14 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Bane Jovanović ima novu stranku", Južne vesti, 9 February 2015, accessed 14 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Narodni pokret Srbije: Potrebni novi ljudi", Radio Television of Serbia, 8 February 2015, accessed 8 August 2018.
  11. ^ Mirko Rudić, "Kamen oko vrata državi", Vreme, 21 May 2015, accessed 26 January 2017.
  12. ^ Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка) Archived 27 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  13. ^ Social Democratic Party, People’s Movement of Serbia Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 26 January 2017.
  14. ^ Social Democratic Party, People's Party Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 November 2017.
  15. ^ a b Latković, Nataša (6 August 2023). "Miroslav Aleksić napustio Narodnu stranku, osniva Narodni pokret Srbije". NOVA portal (in Serbian). Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  16. ^ Radovanović, Vojin (6 August 2023). "Aleksić najavio prikupljanje potpisa za novu stranku, otkrio njeno ime i razlog za napuštanje Narodne". Danas (in Serbian). Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  17. ^ Milićević, Nenad (25 August 2023). "Aleksić: Prikupljeni potpisi za registraciju Narodnog pokreta Srbije". N1 (in Serbian). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  18. ^ Dragojlo, Saša (27 October 2023). "Serbia's Pro-European Opposition Makes Unity Pact for Elections". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  19. ^ Kovačević, Miladin (2016). 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 978-86-6161-154-4. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
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