The Reformist Party ( sr, Реформистичка странка / Reformistička stranka, abbr. RS), also known as the Reformists (Реформисти / Reformisti) was a minor

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-based regionalist

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. Party was founded and led by Aleksandar Višnjić, political activist, former member of

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(DS) and professor at Faculty of Medicine of the

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History

The Reformists took part in the 2007 parliamentary election as an independent list and won no seats finishing the last with only 0.05 percent of vote or 1,881 votes. It is one of four parties that won less than 10,000 votes even though they had to submit exactly the same number of signatures in order to be able to run in the elections. It also had a candidate for the 2008 presidential election, its vice-president

Jugoslav Dobričanin Jugoslav Dobričanin, M.A. ( sr-cyr, Југослав Добричанин, born March 9, 1956 near Kuršumlija Kuršumlija ( sr-Cyrl, Куршумлија, ) is a town and municipality located in the Toplica District of the Southern Serbia ( ...

. The Reformist Party ran again in

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and 2012 Serbian parliamentary elections, but was below the threshold both times.

Republican Party

In January 2014, former high-ranked member and MP of the ruling

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Vladimir Cvijan Vladimir Cvijan ( sr-cyr, Владимир Цвијан; 24 November 19765 January 2018) was a Serbian lawyer and politician. From 2004 until 2010, he served as the legal advisor and General Secretary to President of Serbia Boris Tadić. After ...

joined the Reformist Party becoming its president, announcing its renaming and rebranding as the new anti-corruption and pro-democracy ''Republican Party'', while the founder and former president Višnjić agreed to be vice-president of the reformed political party. Shortly after that Cvijan disappeared from public life, and the new party was never founded. Višnjić's party continued to operate locally until June 2018, when it merged into the new ''Conservative Reform Party'' (KRST).

References

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