The Vojvodina Coalition (

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: Коалиција Војводина / ''Koalicija Vojvodina'') was a

political coalition This is a list of political groups by country. A political group also known as a political alliance, coalition or bloc, is cooperation by members of different political parties on a common agenda of some kind. This usually involves formal agreeme ...

in the

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

n province of

Vojvodina Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Војводина}), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia. It lies within the Pannonian Basin, bordered to the south by the national capital ...

from 1996 to 2005. In 2005, it united with several other parties into newly formed

Vojvodina's Party The Vojvodina's Party ( sr-cyrl, Војвођанска партија, Vojvođanska partija; , VP) is a political party in Serbia that operates in Vojvodina. Party platform It calls for a change of the Constitution of Serbia, which would re ...

History

Vojvodina Coalition was founded in 1996 and was composed from 3 main political parties - the

League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina ( sr-cyrl, Лига социјалдемократа Војводине, Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine, LSV) is an autonomist political party in Serbia. Its current leader since 19 November 2022 is B ...

, the

People's Peasant Party The People's Peasant Party ( sr, Народна Сељачка Странка, Narodna Seljačka Stranka; abbr. НСС or NSS) is an agrarian political party in Serbia. History It was founded in 1990, its first president being Dragan Vesel ...

, and the Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina, as well as from several other smaller political parties and organizations, including Alliance of Subotica Citizens led by Boško Kovačević and Slavko Parać, Vojvodinian Club, Banatian Forum, and other organizations and movements that advocated peace and civic rights. Among other goals, Coalition advocated the establishment of full legislative, judicial and executive autonomy of

within

as well as equal position of Vojvodina within the

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Serbia and Montenegro ( sr, Cрбија и Црна Гора, translit=Srbija i Crna Gora) was a country in Southeast Europe located in the Balkans that existed from 1992 to 2006, following the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yu ...

. In 2003, the

and its new leader

Marijan Rističević Marijan Rističević ( sr-cyr, Маријан Ристичевић, born 1 March 1958) is a Serbian politician and leader of the People's Peasant Party. He has been a member of the National Assembly of Serbia since 2014. Political career He was a ...

were expelled from the coalition.

Members

Electoral performance

Coalition participated outside bigger alliance only on

1997 Serbian general election General elections were held in the Republic of Serbia on 21 September 1997 to elect the President and National Assembly. With no presidential candidate receiving over 50% of the vote in the first round, a second round was held on 5 October.

, receiving less than 3% and finishing 4th.

Parliamentary election

Presidential election

Political leaders

Leaders of the Vojvodina Coalition were

Dragan Veselinov Dragan Veselinov ( sr-cyr, Драган Веселинов, born 3 May 1950) is a Serbian politician. As the president of the People's Peasant Party (founded in 1990), he was among few Serbians to go openly against the Serbian nationalist policies ...

Mile Isakov Miodrag "Mile" Isakov ( sr, Миодраг "Миле" Исаков) (born 20 March 1950 in Zemun, Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a former Serbian politician, journalist and diplomat. He is most notable as a long-time leader of the Reformists of Voj ...

, and

Nenad Čanak Nenad Čanak ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Чанак, ; born 2 November 1959) is a Serbian politician. He is the co-founder and former leader of the centre-left League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina. He was the President of the Assembly of Vojvodina f ...

References

{{Reflist, 2 Defunct political party alliances in Serbia Politics of Vojvodina