The People's Democratic Party ( sr, Народна демократска странка, ''Narodna demokratska stranka'', NDS) was a

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 ideological or p ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

led by

Slobodan Vuksanović Slobodan Vuksanović ( sr-cyr, Слободан Вуксановић, born in 1965 in Belgrade) is a poet, essayist, translator and former Serbian politician, who served as Minister of Education and Sport in the Government of Serbia from 2004 to 2 ...

History

Vukasnović was a high official in the

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until 2000, when he left the party and joined Otpor and subsequently the Movement for Democratic Serbia, led by

Momčilo Perišić Momčilo Perišić ( sr-Cyrl, Момчило Перишић; born 22 May 1944) is a Serbian former general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Yugoslavia between 1993 and 1998. On 6 September 2011, in a first-i ...

. He was expelled from the party in 2001 and then formed NDS. In the 2003 parliamentary elections it was part of the

Democratic Party of Serbia The New Democratic Party of Serbia ( sr, Нова демократска странка Србије, Nova demokratska stranka Srbije, , NDSS or New DSS) is a national-conservative political party in Serbia. Initially known and formed as Democ ...

-led coalition, winning three of the alliance's 53 seats. It merged into DSS in October 2004.Tom Lansford (2015) ''Political Handbook of the World 2015'', CQ Press

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