The Strength of Serbia Movement – BK ( sr, Покрет Снага Србије – БК, Pokret Snaga Srbije, PSS–BK) is a

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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 ...

History

Party was founded in 2004. Its founder and current leader of PSS-BK is

Bogoljub Karić Bogoljub Karić ( sr-Cyrl, Богољуб Карић, ; born 17 January 1954) is a Serbian businessman and politician. Early life and education Bogoljub was born to Janićije Karić and Danica Kuzmanović. He earned a degree in Geography at the ...

, Serbian businessman and tycoon under criminal charges in flight. Since the 2012 parliamentary election its member of the big tent and populist coalition around the ruling

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска напредна странка, Srpska napredna stranka, SNS) has been the ruling political party of Serbia since 2012. Founded by Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić in 2008 as a s ...

(SNS).

Political positions

PSS has been described as a

liberal-conservative Liberal conservatism is a political ideology combining conservative policies with liberal stances, especially on economic issues but also on social and ethical matters, representing a brand of political conservatism strongly influenced by libe ...

populist Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against " the elite". It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment. The term develop ...

, and

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party. It is positioned on the

centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

on the political spectrum.

Elections

Parliamentary elections

Presidential elections

Provincial elections

The Movement received 42,813 votes (6.69%) and won 4 seats in the first round of the

2004 Vojvodina parliamentary election First round of the Vojvodina provincial elections was held on September 19, 2004, at the same time when the local elections were held in the whole of Serbia (with the exception of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo). Second round of elections was ...

s and additional 3 seats in the second round, by majority system.

References

External links

Official website
2004 establishments in Serbia Conservative parties in Serbia Political parties established in 2004 Pro-European political parties in Serbia {{Serbia-party-stub