The People's Movement of Serbia ( sr-cyr, Народни покрет Србије (НПС), Narodni pokret Srbije (NPS) was a

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n political party that existed from 2015 to 2017. Its leader was Miroslav Aleksić, who was also its only member in the

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. In October 2017, Aleksić allowed the party to be re-registered as the People's Party under the leadership of Vuk Jeremić.

Origins

Miroslav Aleksić became

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of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of the

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(''Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije'', URS). The URS largely became dormant after the

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, and Aleksić left the party later in the year and became acting leader of a breakaway group initially called the People's Party of Serbia (''Narodna stranka Srbije'', NSS). The group was formally constituted as the People's Movement of Serbia in January 2015, and Aleksić was chosen as its leader in February.

Electoral results

The party contested the 2016 parliamentary election as part of the ''Alliance for a Better Serbia'' list led by Boris Tadić, Čedomir Jovanović and Nenad Čanak. Aleksić received the eighth position on the electoral list and was elected when the alliance won thirteen mandates. The People's Movement of Serbia operated in a parliamentary alliance with Tadić's

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, which also contested the 2016 elections in the ''Alliance for a Better Serbia''. Aleksić served as the parliamentary group's deputy leader. Both the alliance with the Social Democratic Party and Aleksić's deputy leadership of the parliamentary group continued after the party was restructured as the People's Party.Social Democratic Party, People's Party Parliamentary Group
National Assembly of Serbia, accessed 20 November 2017.

References

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