The Serb List ( sr, / ) was a political alliance in

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between 2006 and 2009.

Program

As a representative of the

Serbs of Montenegro Serbs of Montenegro ( sr, / ) or Montenegrin Serbs ( sr, / ),, meaning "Montenegrin Serbs", and meaning "Serbs Montenegrins". Specifically, Their regional autonym is simply , literal meaning "Montenegrins",Charles Seignobos, Political Histo ...

, Serb List advocated special ties between

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and

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 ...

, Serbian citizenship for Serbs in Montenegro, and protection of 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 K ...

and Serbian Orthodox Church (its Montenegrin branch, the

Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr, Митрополија црногорско-приморска Српске православне цркве, Mitropolija crnogorsko-primorska Srpske pravoslav ...

) as the official language and church in Montenegro, respectively.

History

At the

elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative ...

in Montenegro, on September 10, 2006, the party won 12 out of 81 seats, with 49,730 votes (14.68%). It was the strongest opposition list in the Parliament. In contrast to other political coalitions, Serb List was not simply a coalition of parties, but an entity on its own; for instance, the MPs elected on its list are not considered to represent the party they originally come from, but Serb List. In late 2007 Serb List representative signed the Opposition Charter, uniting with the

Movement for Changes Movement for Changes (, PZP) is a right-wing populist, sovereignist and conservative political party in Montenegro. Its current leader is Nebojša Medojević, the party's founder. History Party was founded by a group of economists and academic ...

, the

Socialist People's Party of Montenegro The Socialist People's Party of Montenegro ( sr, Социјалистичка народна партија Црне Горе, Socijalistička narodna partija Crne Gore, SNP) is a political party in Montenegro. It is a social-democratic and s ...

, the People's Party, the

Democratic Serb Party The Democratic Serb Party ( sr, Демократска српска странка, Demokratska srpska stranka; DSS) is a minor conservative political party in Montenegro, representing the Serbs of Montenegro. History The Democratic Serb Party wa ...

, the Bosniak Party, the

Albanian Alternative Albanian Alternative ( cnr, italic=yes, Albanska alternativa, sq, italic=yes, Alternativa Shqiptare) is a political party representing the Albanian minority in Montenegro. The party is led by Nik Gjeloshaj. At the legislative elections in Monte ...

and the

Democratic League in Montenegro The Democratic League in Montenegro ( cnr, italic=yes, Demokratski savez u Crnoj Gori, sq, Lidhja Demokratike në Mal të Zi) is an Albanian minority political party in Montenegro. History It was one of the key organizers (together with the Lib ...

into a standing bloc to oppose a Constitutional draft proposed and attempted to be imposed by the ruling DPS-SDP coalition. Serb List fiercely opposed renaming the official language of the country from Serbian to Montenegrin. The alliance merged with the national-conservative Serb People's Party and the People's Socialist Party of Montenegro into the

New Serb Democracy New Serb Democracy (, NSD; officially abbreviated NOVA) is a Serbian nationalist right-wing political party in Montenegro, formed on 24 January 2009 as a merger between Serb People's Party and the People's Socialist Party of Montenegro. Since 2 ...

, formed on 24 January 2009. Those who did not accepted the merger gathered around the Serb National List, claiming to be the original heir of Serb List. A new party named Serb List was established again on 5 January 2012.Радио телевизија Републике Српске: Српска листа нова партија у Црној Гори
Приступљено 25. 4. 2013.

Members

Besides the Serb People's Party of Montenegro, the coalition consisted of various organizations and individuals which present themselves as protectors of the

: * Serb People's Party led by Andrija Mandić (9 MPs) * People's Socialist Party of

Momir Bulatović Momir Bulatović ( sr-cyr, Момир Булатовић; 21 September 1956 – 30 June 2019) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He was the first President of the Republic of Montenegro from 1990 to 1998, after which he served as the Prim ...

(1 MP) * Democratic Party of Unity of

Zoran Žižić Zoran Žižić (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Жижић; 4 March 1951 – 4 January 2013) was a Yugoslav and Montenegrin politician. He served as Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro in the first two Đukanović cabinets from 1991 to 1996, and w ...

(1 MP) * Party of Serb Radicals led by Duško Sekulić (1 MP) *

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of Momčilo Vuksanović (NGO)

References

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