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Together For Serbia
Together for Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Заједно за Србију, Zajedno za Srbiju, ZZS) was a Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It was formed by Dušan Petrović in 2012, and he led the party until 2016, when he was succeeded by Nebojša Zelenović. History Party was created by a broken-off fraction of the Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party (DS) in the aftermath of the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, 2012 elections after which president Boris Tadić lost to his opponent Tomislav Nikolić and inner arguments maintaint on resulting in early party elections and Tadic's withdrawal from the leadership, settling for an honorary presidential title, in favor of Belgrade mayor Dragan Đilas. A total of 7 MPs left the DS and founded in 2012 the "Together for Serbia" parliamentary club. Its leader is former minister Dušan Petrović. At the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, 2014 election, ZZS teamed up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Together (Serbia)
Together ( sr-cyrl, Заједно, Zajedno, Z) is a political party in Serbia. It was formed on 11 June 2022 as a merger of Together for Serbia, Ecological Uprising, and Assembly of Free Serbia, which were a part of the We Must coalition that took part in the 2022 general election. History Following the 2022 general election, Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta and Nebojša Zelenović, who at that time were the leaders of the Ecological Uprising and Together for Serbia respectively, announced that they would hold a form a political party in June 2022. Additionally, Zelenović stated that the party would composed of three co-leaders and that its members of the City Assembly of Belgrade would have influence on how the party would work. Zelenović also stated that Biljana Stojković, Ćuta, and himself would serve as co-leaders. Its representatives previously signed a joint merger declaration shortly before the European Green Party congress in Riga, which was held between 3 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danas (newspaper)
''Danas'' (, Serbo-Croatian for "today") is a United Group-owned daily newspaper of record published in Belgrade, Serbia. It is a left-oriented media, promoting social-democracy and European Union integration. It is a vocal media supporter of Serbian NGO activities towards human rights and minorities protection. History The first issue of ''Danas'' appeared on 9 June 1997. It was established in 1997 after a group of discontented journalists from the ''Naša borba'' newspaper walked out after getting into a conflict with the paper's new private majority owner. Right from the start the paper employed a strong independent editorial policy with respect to Milošević's regime. Because of open reporting and uncensored coverage on issues and events plaguing Yugoslav and Serbian society in the late 1990s, the paper often found itself targeted by Serbian authorities. ''Danas'' was one of the three newspapers (''Dnevni telegraf'' and ''Naša borba'' being the other two) to be banned by g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of Serbia
The National Assembly ( sr-cyr, Народна скупштина, Narodna skupština, ) is the unicameral legislature of Serbia. The assembly is composed of 250 deputies who are proportionally elected to four-year terms by secret ballot. The assembly elects a president (speaker) who presides over the sessions. Wikisource: Constitution of Serbia The National Assembly exercises supreme legislative power. It adopts and amends the Constitution, elects Government, appoints the Governor of the National Bank of Serbia and other state officials. All decisions are made by majority vote of deputies at the session at which a majority of deputies are present, except for amending the Constitution, when a two-thirds majority is needed.National Assembly of SerbiaInformer (This text is in the public domain as the official material of the Republic of Serbia state body or a body performing public functions, under the terms of Article 6, Paragraph 2 of Serbian copyright law) The assembly convene ... [...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] |
2022 Belgrade City Assembly Election
Local elections were held in Belgrade on 3 April 2022 to elect members of the City Assembly. Alongside the election, national-level general elections and local elections in 12 other towns and municipalities were held on the same day. The elections are likely to be repeated in either December 2022 or March 2023, considering the government coalition has a tight majority, receiving less votes than the opposition parties. Background Following the vote of no confidence in 2013, Dragan Đilas was dismissed as mayor, and a temporary body was set up by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), who has ruled Belgrade since then. The current session of the City Assembly was elected in 2018, after SNS, Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS) and United Serbia (JS) formed a majority. Zoran Radojičić, an independent endorsed by SNS, was elected mayor, succeeding Siniša Mali, while Goran Vesić was elected deputy mayor. The 2018 election also marked the return of Đragan Đilas to politics, and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Serbian General Election
General elections were held in Serbia on 3 April 2022 to elect both the president and members of the National Assembly. Initially, parliamentary elections were scheduled to be held in 2024; however, in October 2020 president Aleksandar Vučić stated that snap parliamentary elections would be held in or before April 2022. In addition to the general elections, local elections were held simultaneously in 12 municipalities and 2 cities, including Belgrade. The Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) came to power in 2012 after forming a government with the Socialist Party of Serbia. They won a supermajority of seats following the 2020 parliamentary election, which was boycotted by the major opposition Alliance for Serbia that claimed that "the election would not be free and fair". Vučić, who was elected president in 2017, faced protests during his first term, most notably during 2018–2020 and in July 2020. Vučić also oversaw the inter-party dialogues regarding electoral conditions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandar Jovanović Ćuta
Aleksandar Jovanović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Јовановић; born 30 September 1966), commonly known by his nickname Ćuta, is a Serbian environmental activist and politician who has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since August 2022. Born in Belgrade, Ćuta often stayed at Stara Planina, a mountain in Eastern Serbia, and was interested in rock music, football, and chess during his youth. He founded the "Defend the Rivers of Stara Planina" organisation in 2017, which primarily concentrated on combating the construction of small hydros in the Stara Planina region, although over time, Ćuta shifted his presence over other regions of Serbia. He gained recognition in the media and has been noted as one of the representatives of environmental activism in Serbia. Ćuta has organised protests and gatherings around Serbia and managed to stop the construction of several projects. In 2021 Ćuta organised the Ecological Uprising protests, which set off the be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobrica Veselinović
Dobrica Veselinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Добрица Веселиновић, born 27 July 1981) is a Serbian activist and politician. He is a member of the Minor Council which represents the left-wing Do not let Belgrade drown movement. Early life and activism He was born in 1981 in Belgrade, where he finished middle and high school. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. From 2004 to 2005 he was the program editor at "BU Radio", the radio of the Faculty of Political Sciences. He was the coordinator of the project "''I don't want a bag, I want a ceger''" and the campaign "''I park arrogantly''" in the group of citizens "KRIO" from 2008 to 2009. In the same period, he was an assistant coordinator at the Center for Peace Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade. From 2007 to 2010, he was the assistant coordinator of the project of translating and publishing books on peace studies in the group of citizens "Southeast 21". Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–2022 Serbian Environmental Protests
In September 2021, a series of environmental protests began in Belgrade and other locations in Serbia. The protests, which were attended by tens of thousands of people, lasted until February 2022. In 2004, Anglo-Australian corporation Rio Tinto was given permission to explore mines near the Jadar Valley, and in 2017, the Government of Serbia signed an agreement to implement "Project Jadar", which would give Rio Tinto permission to exploit the silicate mineral jadarite. The project was initially scheduled to start in 2023. Following the 2020 parliamentary election, the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) won a supermajority of seats in the National Assembly, and as a response, the National Assembly adopted a law on referendum and people's initiative, and modifications of the expropriation law in November 2021. Both laws were met with opposition from activists and politicians. Between September 2021 and February 2022, environmental organisations organised protests to demand t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Green Party
The European Green Party (EGP), also referred to as European Greens, is the European political party that represents national parties from across Europe who share Green values. The European Greens works closely with the Greens–European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) parliamentary group in the European parliament which is formed by elected Green party members along with the European Free Alliance, European Pirate Party and Volt Europa. The European Greens' partners include its youth wing thFederation of Young European Greens(FYEG), thGreens European Foundation(GEF) and thGlobal Greensfamily. History Green politics emerged from grassroots political movements, such as the environmental, peace, and women's rights movements. They forged the Greens' political priorities: climate change, peace, environment, democracy, social justice and health. Greens emerged as a new political force in the 1970s in several European countries and have been represented in the European Parliament sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civic Democratic Forum
Civic Democratic Forum ( sr, Грађански демократски форум, Građanski Demokratski forum, GDF) is a liberal political party in Serbia. It was founded in 2019 by former members of the Movement of Free Citizens (PSG). It has positioned itself as a party that opposes the rule of Aleksandar Vučić, although it has also criticized other opposition parties. History When Saša Janković resigned as president of Movement of Free Citizens, candidates for his successor were actor Sergej Trifunović and Aleksandar Olenik. The interim president was Rade Veljanovski. When Trifunović won with 60% of the vote, Veljanovski, Olenik, and several other members left the movement. On 2 March 2019, they formed Civic Democratic Forum. In April 2019, they signed an cooperation agreement with Party of Modern Serbia. Together they issued a statement in which they present a solution for Kosovo. Their stance is that Serbia should exchange territories with Kosovo and recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Not Let Belgrade D(r)own
Do not let Belgrade drown ( sr-Cyrl, Не давимо Београд, Ne davimo Beograd, NDB) is a green political organisation in Serbia. A grassroots movement formed in 2014, aimed at criticising and reforming the current political system through "involving citizens in the development of their environment" and transparency. The organisation is made up of a group of people of different profiles, professions, and beliefs interested in urban and cultural policies, sustainable urban development, and equitable use of shared resources. In October 2022, NDB announced that it would re-organise itself as a political party. NDB is positioned on the left-wing on the political spectrum, and has adopted left-wing populist ideas, and an anti-neoliberal, anti-nationalist, progressive, municipalist, and egalitarian ideology. It maintains socialist and social-democratic economic policies, while it is also supportive of democratic socialism, and environmentalism. NDB describes itself as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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