Healthy Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Здрава Србија, Zdrava Srbija, ZS) is a
right-wing
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political party
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founded in 2017 by
Milan Stamatović, Mayor of
Čajetina
Čajetina ( sr-cyr, Чајетина) is a small town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has 14,745 inhabitants. One of the most notable settlements in the mun ...
.
History
After leaving the
Democratic Party of Serbia
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and further disagreements with the President of the
Serbian People's Party Nenad Popović over Popović's support for the
ruling party
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's leader
Aleksandar Vučić
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Vučić served ...
's candidacy at the
2017 Serbian Presidential election
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,
Milan Stamatović decided to run for
President
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himself. Together with his supporters, he founded the "For a Healthy Serbia" Citizens' Group, which nominated him. Stamatović received 1.15% of the overall votes in
Serbia, but the fact that he won 61.23% of votes in his hometown of
Čajetina
Čajetina ( sr-cyr, Чајетина) is a small town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has 14,745 inhabitants. One of the most notable settlements in the mun ...
encouraged him to found his own political party.
Healthy Serbia was officially founded on 5 June 2017 in the western Serbian village of
Ljubiš, where Stamatović received 99% of the votes. Among the founders were famous Serbian poet
Ljubivoje Ršumović and Serbian writer
Milan Paroški. At that occasion, Stamatović said that "Healthy Serbia would be an authentic
regional party, but also a party devoted to making entire Serbia healthier by working from the interior, and not from
Belgrade
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."
On 21 August 2017, Healthy Serbia and
Dveri
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signed an agreement on joint political action. Stamatović said that neither of these two political parties have ever flirted with the ruling
Serbian Progressive Party
The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012.
Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a ...
, which he considers to be a huge advantage. He also mentioned that these two political organizations do not wish to topple
the Government on the streets, but through elections.
In the
2020 parliamentary elections, Healthy Serbia participated in a coalition with the
conservative
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Better Serbia
Better Serbia ( sr-cyr, Боља Србија, Bolja Srbija, BS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Its leader is Dragan Jovanović, a former member of New Serbia. It is the main governing party in the municipality of Topol ...
.
Electoral results
Parliamentary elections
Presidential elections
Notable members
This is a list of notable members of the Healthy Serbia:
*
Milan Stamatović, Mayor of
Čajetina
Čajetina ( sr-cyr, Чајетина) is a small town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of western Serbia. According to the 2011 census results, the municipality has 14,745 inhabitants. One of the most notable settlements in the mun ...
*
Ljubivoje Ršumović, poet (2017–present)
*
Milan Paroški, writer (2017–present)
Notes and references
Notes
References
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