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2024 Serbian Local Elections
Local elections were held in a majority of cities and municipalities in Serbia (excluding the disputed territory of Kosovo) on 2 June 2024. Background Initially, the Serbian government planned to hold a local election only for the City Assembly of Belgrade on 2 June, with the other local elections taking place later in the year. The Belgrade vote was required due to the city assembly's failure to constitute itself after the 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, while the other elections were scheduled to take place in accordance with Serbia's regular local electoral cycle. Ana Brnabić, the president of the national assembly, contended that holding all local elections on 2 June would require a change in Serbia's law on local elections and would unfairly restrict the mandate of those elected in the last regular local election in 2020. Following extended controversy, however, the law was amended on 23 April and local elections were announced for various cities and municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest, and claims a border with Albania through the Political status of Kosovo, disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia without Kosovo has about 6.7 million inhabitants, about 8.4 million if Kosvo is included. Its capital Belgrade is also the List of cities in Serbia, largest city. Continuously inhabited since the Paleolithic Age, the territory of modern-day Serbia faced Slavs#Migrations, Slavic migrations in the 6th century, establishing several regional Principality of Serbia (early medieval), states in the early Mid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party Of Freedom And Justice
The Party of Freedom and Justice ( sr, Странка слободе и правде, Stranka slobode i pravde, SSP) is a social-democratic political party in Serbia. It is led by Dragan Đilas. It was founded in April 2019 after a merger of the Green Ecological Party and Serbian Left. Since its inception, it has placed itself as a major opposition political party in Serbia after leading two opposition alliances, the Alliance for Serbia, United Opposition of Serbia, and United for the Victory of Serbia. History Background and formation The Party of Freedom and Justice (SSP) was formed out of the Green Ecological Party (ZES), a political party which was established in 2008. Dejan Bulatović was the leader of ZES after 2015. He led ZES into a coalition with the Greens of Serbia (ZS), which fell apart before the 2017 Serbian presidential election, and was a part of the "Civic Bloc 381" which was formed in 2018 and headed by the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG); ZES left t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 million people live within the administrative limits of the City of Belgrade. It is the third largest of all List of cities and towns on Danube river, cities on the Danube river. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragan Đilas
Dragan Đilas ( sr-cyr, Драган Ђилас, , born 22 February 1967) is a Serbian businessman and politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2008 to 2013. From 25 November 2012 until 31 May 2014, he served as the President of the Democratic Party (DS), the nation's main opposition party. As a member of the Democratic Party, Đilas served as the mayor of the Serbian capital city between 2008 and 2013. He served as the Minister without Portfolio in charge of the National Investment Plan in the 2007–2008 Cabinet of Serbia and prior to that as the director of the People's Office of the President between 2004 and 2007. On 18 April 2011, Đilas became the President of Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS). He resigned in October 2016. Prior to leaving the KSS, Đilas left the Democratic Party in April 2016. He continued his political career after leaving, running in the Belgrade 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election before afterwards announcing a new political opposi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dveri
The Serbian Movement "Dveri" ( sr-Cyr, Српски покрет Двери, Srpski pokret Dveri), commonly just known as Dveri (), is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Serbia. It its currently led by Boško Obradović, who is one of the co-founders of the party. Formed as a youth-orientated political organization in 1999, it published an eponymous student magazine that promoted clerical and nationalist content. Through the 2000s, it operated as a non-governmental organization that campaigned in favor of Christian right views, that included opposition to abortion and opposition to gay rights. Dveri took part in the 2012 elections where it failed to obtain any seats in the National Assembly, although in the 2016 elections it entered the National Assembly in a joint list with the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS), obtaining 13 seats in total, 7 of which belonged to Dveri. Two years later, it took part in the 2018 Belgrade City Assembly election in a coalit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuk Jeremić
Vuk Jeremić ( sr-cyr, Вук Јеремић, ; born 3 July 1975) is a Serbian politician and diplomat who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia from 2007 to 2012. In the early 1990s, Jeremić and his parents were forced to leave Yugoslavia after falling out with the country's communist government. Jeremić graduated from Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ... and Harvard University, Harvard in 1998 and 2003, respectively, and was active in several pro-democracy student movements during the 1990s. In the early 2000s, he joined what ''The New York Times'' deemed Serbia's "most westward-leaning Government of Serbia, government" as an advisor to President of Serbia, Presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Democratic Alternative (Serbia)
The National Democratic Alternative (, NADA) is a national-conservative political coalition in Serbia, led by the New Democratic Party of Serbia (NDSS) and Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS). History It was initially formed as a joint political platform between the two parties in January 2021, although in May, it was expanded into a political coalition. It is now made up of more than 20 citizens' associations. Matija Bećković and Ljubinko Đurković expressed their support to the coalition. Its presidential candidate for the 2022 election was Miloš Jovanović, while its ballot carrier for the parliamentary election was retired general Božidar Delić. On 28 January 2022, Together for Šumadija, a minor political party from Kragujevac, joined the coalition. Political positions It opposes the legalization of the same sex civil unions, supports a proposal for the adoption of a declaration of support to Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (Serbia)
The Democratic Party ( sr, Демократска странка, Demokratska stranka; , DS) is a social-democratic and social-liberal political party in Serbia. The party was officially founded on 3 February 1990 by a group of Serbian intellectuals as a revival of the original Yugoslav Democratic Party. It was one of the main opposition parties to the presidency of Slobodan Milošević during the 1990s. Democratic Party joined the Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalition in 2000,Flags of the World''Democratic Opposition of Serbia'' Tomislav Todorović, 22 November 2005 and became part of the new coalition government after the 2000 parliamentary election. Zoran Đinđić, then president of the Democratic Party, became the Prime Minister of Serbia in January 2001, but was assassinated in 2003, and the Party lost the power at the parliamentary election later that year. New president of the Democratic Party, Boris Tadić, won the 2004 presidential election, and the party re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Face Of Serbia
The New Face of Serbia ( sr, Ново лице Србије, Novo lice Srbije, abbr. NLS) is a political party in Serbia. Miloš Parandilović has served as its president since its formation in September 2022. Parandilović was previously a member of the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia. Following Žika Gojković's decision to side with the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, Parandilović disassociated with Gojković and formed NLS. After the Belgrade school shooting and the Mladenovac and Smederevo shootings in May 2023, NLS was one of the organisers of the mass anti-government protests. In the 2023 parliamentary election, it was part of the Serbia Against Violence alliance and won 2 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. NLS is a self-described centre-right, conservative, and monarchist party. History Background and formation Miloš Parandilović was previously affiliated with the Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (POKS), j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecological Uprising
Ecological Uprising ( sr-cyr, Еколошки устанак, Ekološki ustanak, EU) was a political and protest movement in Serbia that gained presence during the 2021–2022 Serbian environmental protests. It was led by Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta, who was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia at the head of We Must (''Moramo'') coalition in the 2022 Serbian parliamentary election. On 11 June 2022, the movement was merged into a new political party called Together (''Zajedno!''). History Formation According to Together's website, the Ecological Uprising was formed in 2019. The Ecological Uprising movement grew out of a series of environmental actions in Serbia in 2021. Jovanović, working with a movement called "Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina," used the phrase "ecological uprising" in his call for a citizens' protest at the national assembly on 10 April 2021. The protest, which drew thousands of people, called for a moratorium on the construction of small hydroelec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement Of Free Citizens (Serbia)
The Movement of Free Citizens ( sr-cyrl, Покрет слободних грађана, Pokret slobodnih građana, PSG) is a liberal political organization in Serbia. History Saša Janković was in the position of state ombudsman, and as such, he often criticized practices of the government, led by SNS and Vučić. This positioned him among voters as opposition spokesperson and led to him enjoying relatively high ratings in relation to actual opposition leaders and politicians. As his term was about to end, he decided to resign and run in the presidential elections, scheduled for April 2017. His most notable endorsement came from the Democratic Party, which decided to support Janković, rather than to have a candidate of its own. This helped him create a relatively united front against Vučić in the upcoming elections. In the aftermath of the elections, Janković, who finished second with 16.3% of the vote, decided to form his own political movement, rather than joining th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green–Left Front
Green–Left Front ( sr-cyrl, Зелено–леви фронт, Zeleno–levi front, abbr. ZLF) is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It is the successor of Do not let Belgrade drown association and four local citizens' groups. Radomir Lazović and Biljana Đorđević serve as the co-presidents of ZLF. Formed in July 2023, and registered as a political party a month later, ZLF was one of the organisers of the 2023 Serbian protests. It later became part of the Serbia Against Violence (coalition), Serbia Against Violence coalition which contested the 2023 Serbian parliamentary election, parliamentary, 2023 Vojvodina provincial election, Vojvodina provincial, and 2023 Belgrade City Assembly election, Belgrade City Assembly elections in December 2023. A left-wing party, ZLF declares itself to be supportive of solidarity, social justice, and environmental protection. It is a member of the Progressive International and is a candid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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