People's Movement of Serbia

The People's Movement of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Народни покрет Србије (НПС) was a Serbian political party that existed from 2014 to 2017. Its leader was Miroslav Aleksić, who was also 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.[1]

People's Movement of Serbia

Narodni pokret Srbije
Народни покрет Србије
PresidentMiroslav Aleksić
Founded2014
DissolvedOctober 22, 2017 (2017-10-22)
Succeeded byPeople's Party
IdeologyConservatism
Pro-Europeanism
Regionalism
Political positionCentre-right

Origins

Miroslav Aleksić was elected as mayor of Trstenik in 2012 as a candidate of the United Regions of Serbia (URS) party. He left the party in 2014 and was chosen as leader of the People's Movement of Serbia later in the year.[2][3]

Electoral results

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[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

Year Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalition Government
2016 189,564 5.02%
1 / 250
 1 With SDS-LDP-LSV opposition

References
  1. "'Blic': Jeremić u oktobru osniva Narodnu stranku, B92, 28 September 2017, accessed 20 November 2017.
  2. "Narodni pokret Srbije: Potrebni novi ljudi", Radio Television of Serbia, accessed 8 August 2018.
  3. Mirko Rudić, "Kamen oko vrata državi", Vreme, 21 May 2015, accessed 26 January 2017.
  4. Изборне листе (БОРИС ТАДИЋ, ЧЕДОМИР ЈОВАНОВИЋ - САВЕЗ ЗА БОЉУ СРБИЈУ – Либерално демократска партија, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Социјалдемократска странка) Archived 2018-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, Republika Srbija - Republička izborna komisija, accessed 26 January 2017.
  5. Social Democratic Party, People’s Movement of Serbia Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 26 January 2017.
  6. Social Democratic Party, People's Party Parliamentary Group, National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 November 2017.
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