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Not to be confused with the Democratic Party of Serbia.
The Democratic Party (Serbian: Демократска странка, Demokratska stranka, listen ) is the main center-left political party in Serbia. It is the largest political party in Serbia in terms of sitting Members of Parliament, and in what respects the international arena, the Democratic Party is a member of the Socialist International and Party of European Socialists.
[edit] History[edit] Old PartyThe old Democratic Party was founded on February 16, 1919 in Sarajevo after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Independent Radical Party, Serbian Progressive Party, Liberal Party and the Serbian part of Croato-Serbian Coalition merged to establish the DS. The elected president of the party was Ljubomir Davidović, also a president of the Assembly and a mayor of Belgrade. After his death in 1940, Milan Grol took over the presidency. The Democratic Party won the majority of votes in the first elections held in 1920, and was in and out of government (either independently or as part of a coalition) until 1929, when King Alexander abolished the constitution and created a personal dictatorship, changing the name of the country to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Democratic Party remained in opposition until World War II. Following the Invasion of Yugoslavia by the allied forces of Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, the Kingdom of Hungary and the Kingdom of Romania from 6 April to 17 April 1941, Yugoslavia was placed under military occupation. Most of the party leadership fled to the United Kingdom. In 1945 the leadership returned to Yugoslavia, but the Democratic Party called for a boycott of communist-organized elections in the same year. After elections, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia led by Josip Broz Tito banned the Democratic Party. Its members were persecuted, with many, including Milan Grol, were arrested and sentenced to long prison terms. [edit] New PartyIn late 1989, a group of 13 intellectuals held a press conference in Belgrade where they announced that the Democratic Party is being re and invited everyone to join the first opposition party in Serbia. The founding assembly was held on February 3, 1990, in Belgrade. The elected party president was Dragoljub Mićunović. Members participated in the first anti-government protests in 1990. In elections that year, the party was on ballot in 176 of 250 electoral districts, and won 7 assembly seats. Only several days prior to the elections, a group of 10 members, led by Nikola Milošević, left the party and formed the Serbian Liberal Party. In 1992 a much larger faction led by Vojislav Koštunica, left the party and established the Democratic Party of Serbia. Zoran Đinđić was the second president of the party, elected at the party conference in January 1994. On 21 February 1997 he was elected Mayor of Belgrade following more than three months of peaceful protest marches by hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting against blatant vote rigging by Slobodan Milošević and his cronies. [edit] Activity in Republika SrpskaIn Republika Srpska, a branch of the Democratic Party was set up to contest the first post-Dayton Accord elections. It was led by Ljubiša Savić, alias Mauzer, leader of the Panthers paramilitary, closely allied with the Tigers of Željko Ražnatović Arkan whom he invited to Bijeljina. [1] During the war his Panthers operated in the Bijeljina area; "I think that Mauzer was the person who was most responsible for the killings and destruction in Bijeljina", Nenad Zafirović told Milošević trial prosecutors. Implicated in crimes against local Muslims, he vowed to a Belgrade newspaper that "Now we fix these, and once we've done with them, we will cross the Drina to deal with the communists and fix them."[2] His party ran as part of the Democratic Patriotic Bloc led by Predrag Radić, the man blamed for blowing up the Banja Luka mosques. For helping Biljana Plavšić in having Milorad Dodik confirmed premier in January 1998, he was named as chief of Republika Srpska police. He was dismissed not long after for torturing suspects. In June 2000 he was victim of a gangland killing.[3] In 2002, The DS-RS was led by Gavrilo Antonić, who as of 2008 is the Secretary General of the People's Democratic Party of former RS Premier Mladen Ivanić. [edit] Recent eventsThe fall of Slobodan Milošević regime in 2000 occurred after street protests by hundreds of thousands of citizens. Democratic Party was the biggest party of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia that won 64.7% of the votes, getting 176 of 250 seats. In 2003, Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, was assassinated. Immediately after the assassination, a state of emergency was declared and the government mounted Operation Sablja. Boris Tadić was elected new president of Democratic Party in 2004. He was nominated for the Serbian presidential elections in the same year, and won it while Democratic party was still in opposition in parliament. Democratic Party received 915,854 popular votes or 22.71%, and thus won 64 out of 250 seats in parliament in the 2007 elections. Three of its seats went to the Sanjak Democratic Party, which formed a club with DS under Dušan Petrović as president and Milan Marković as vice-president. At the first session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia the party mostly voted to refuse Martti Ahtisaari's proposal for Kosovo's solution. Boris Tadić was reelected at the Serbian presidential election, 2008. The party has also taken three seats in the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija, but has refused to sit in the Assembly until the situation in Kosovo is stabilized.[2] [edit] PoliciesThe Democratic Party's program states that:
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