The Socialist People's Party ( sr-cyrl, Социјалистичка народна странка, Socijalistička narodna stranka, abbr. SNS) was a
political party
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in
Serbia
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led by
Branislav Ivković Branislav Ivković ( sr-Cyrl, Бранислав Ивковић; born 7 August 1952), known as Bane, is a Serbian engineer, academic, and former politician. He was a cabinet minister in the government of Serbia from 1994 to 2000 and served in the ...
, a former member of the
Socialist Party of Serbia. Ivković was a candidate in the first round of
elections
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Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...
for
President of Serbia
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The curr ...
in 2002, winning 1.2% of the vote. In the 2003 re-run of the previous elections, their candidate was
Dragan Tomic
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People named Dragan include:
Politicians and office holde ...
, who won 2.2% of the vote. In the final re-run of the elections in 2004, Ivković was again the party's candidate, winning 0.4% of the vote. In the 2006 parliamentary election, the party ran in the coalition of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia and the Social Democratic Party that failed to pass the minimum vote percentage requirement.
JA I SLOBA Branislav Ivković posle pet godina progovorio o noći kad je s DOS pregovarao o hapšenju Miloševića
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References
Socialist parties in Serbia
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