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New Serb Democracy (, NSD; officially abbreviated NOVA) is a
Serbian nationalist Serbian nationalism asserts that Serbs are a nation and promotes the cultural and political unity of Serbs. It is an ethnic nationalism, originally arising in the context of the general rise of nationalism in the Balkans under Ottoman rule, und ...
right-wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, authorit ...
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...
in Montenegro, formed on 24 January 2009 as a merger between Serb People's Party and the
People's Socialist Party of Montenegro The People Socialist Party of Montenegro ( sr, Народна социјалистичка странка Црне Горе, НСС ЦГ; ''Narodna socijalistička stranka Crne Gore'', ''NSS CG'') was an opposition political party in Montenegro w ...
. Since 2012, it has been a constituent member of the Democratic Front.


History

Envisioned as a broad coalition of pro-Serb parties of Montenegro centred around '' Serb List'' coalition of 2006, NOVA was planned to include
Democratic Serb Party The Democratic Serb Party ( sr, Демократска српска странка, Demokratska srpska stranka; DSS) is a minor conservative list of political parties in Montenegro, political party in Montenegro, representing the Serbs of Monteneg ...
as well as various Serb cultural and political organisations. However, the merger was more limited, as only the Serb People's Party, People's Socialist Party and "Matica Boke" cultural organisation came to a merger agreement. New Serb Democracy is led by Andrija Mandić, leader of the former Serb People's Party. Mandić sought to transform the ''Serb List'' coalition into a more moderate and civic-oriented party, in order to boost the party's coalition potential, and even the dropping the "Serb" prefix from the newly formed party's name was considered. This idea was met with strong resistance during the merger talks. A new party was finally established on 24 January 2009. As a result of more moderate politics of the new party, a series of the opposition uniting attempts follows. In 2009 parliamentary election New Serb Democracy ran independently and won 9.2% of the votes, and 8 seats. Shortly after the election party enters a big tent and pro-EU
A Better Montenegro A Better Montenegro ( sr, Боља Црна Гора, Bolja Crna Gora) is a broad opposition coalition in Montenegro made up virtually the entire opposition. It is led by the three only parliamentary opposition parties, Socialist People's Party o ...
coalition, which includes the entire parliamentary opposition at the time (NSD, PzP and the SNP). The coalition eventually collapsed after bad results at the 2009-10 municipal elections. Just before the 2012 parliamentary election, the party re-joins coalition with the PzP, this time as part of the originally-big tent and populist Democratic Front alliance led by moderate politician and former diplomat
Miodrag Lekić Miodrag Lekić (; born 21 November 1947) is a Montenegrin political scientist, diplomat and politician. He is the founder and current president of the liberal conservative Democratic Alliance (DEMOS). Biography Early academic and political caree ...
. At the election, Democratic Front finished second with 22.8% of the votes and 20 seats, out of which NOVA won 8. In 2015, Lekić split from the alliance due to internal disagreements with leadership of constituent parties, having decided to form a new liberal-conservative political party,
DEMOS Demos may refer to: Computing * DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system * DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR * Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems * plural for Demo (computer programming) ...
. The party faction led by Vice President
Goran Danilović Goran Danilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Даниловић, born in 1971 in Podgorica) is a Montenegrin politician, former member of Parliament of Montenegro and former Minister of Internal Affairs. In 2016 he was the fo ...
leaves the party and joins Lekić's new party. During the
parliamentary election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...
held in 2016, Democratic Front was again second ranked electoral list with 20,32% of the votes and 18 seats, out of which NOVA again won 8. On 9 May 2019, party leader Mandić and 13 another people were found guilty by the Higher Court in Montenegro for the " plotting to commit terrorist acts and undermine the constitutional order of Montenegro in an alleged
coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
which allegedly took place on the day of 2016 parliamentary election." In February 2021, the appellate court annulled the first instance verdict on all counts of the indictment.Ukinuta presuda za "državni udar": Počinjene bitne povrede odredaba krivičnog postupka
Vijesti, 5 February 2021 In the 2020 parliamentary election NOVA participated as a member of the "
For the Future of Montenegro For the Future of Montenegro ( Serbian: Za budućnost Crne Gore / За будућност Црне Горе, abbreviated as ''ZBCG'') was a catch-all, mainly cultural conservative and populist pre-election opposition political coalition in Monte ...
" coalition. The list went on to win 32.55% of the votes and 27 seats, out of which 9 went to NOVA.


Ideology

Initially, the party tried to position itself as moderately conservative and
centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the Right-wing politics, right of the Left–right politics, political spectrum, but are closer to the Centrism, centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure a ...
political organization, willingly to compromise with traditionally Montenegrin parties, supporting accession to the European Union and advocating rights for Serb ethnic minority in more democratic and institucional manner, unlike its predecessor, the Serb People's Party. In recent years, the party has shifted its stances to the right, but still fully supporting accession to the European Union, provided that a referendum be held on this topic. The party is currently the main advocate of
Serbian-Montenegrin unionism Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...
. NOVA has repeatedly requested a new constitutional amendment so that the national symbols of Montenegro (adopted in 2004) could be changed to represent the entirety of Montenegro. Party also demands that the
Serbian language Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and Kos ...
enters the Constitution of Montenegro as the official language. New Serb Democracy jointly with Democratic People's Party maintains cooperation with largest party in Russia
United Russia United Russia ( rus, Единая Россия, Yedinaya Rossiya, (j)ɪˈdʲinəjə rɐˈsʲijə) is a Conservatism in Russia, Russian conservative List of political parties in Russia, political party. As the largest party in Russia, it hold ...
as well with largest party in Republika Srpska (entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Alliance of Independent Social Democrats The Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (; abbr. СНСД or SNSD) is a Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Founded in 1996, it is the governing party in Republika Srpska, with its leader, Milorad Dodik, serving as the current p ...
, the party also maintains a very close cooperation with the largest party in Serbia
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 s ...
and traditionally maintains good relations with the government in Serbia, regardless of the party in charge.


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