Love, Faith, Hope

Love, Faith, Hope ( sr-Cyrl, Љубав, вера, нада, Ljubav, vera, nada; abbr. ЉВН, LJVN) is a right-wing national conservative political movement in Serbia. It was formed in September 2020 by Nemanja Šarović and Božidar Delić, after they left the Serbian Radical Party (SRS). Šarović has been the movement's leader throughout its existence.

Formation

Nemanja Šarović, a longtime Radical Party parliamentarian, resigned from the SRS shortly after 2020 parliamentary elections, in which the party fell below the electoral threshold for assembly representation. He cited fundamental disagreements with party leader Vojislav Šešelj on both the party's direction and the broader political situation in Serbia. Šarović later accused Šešelj of being insufficiently critical of Serbia's government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

In August 2020, Šarović announced that he would form a new political movement to oppose the SNS and Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić. On 22 September 2020, he formally launched the "Love, Faith, Hope" movement in Belgrade. He said that the name was chosen to reflect what he described as "universal Christian virtues, which we need as a society, people and state, and from which we as a society have moved away." He added that his movement wanted "a state where the law applies to everyone" and that he considered Vučić as the movement's main political enemy. Šarović was elected president of the movement and Božidar Delić was elected as vice-president.

Later developments

Delić left "Love, Faith, Hope" in January 2022 to form a new movement called '' There's no Going Back – Serbia Is Behind'' (NN–IJS).

The LJVN movement did not contest the 2022 parliamentary election, but it fielded a list called ''Nemanja Šarović – For the whole normal world'' in the concurrent 2022 Belgrade city assembly election. Šarović said that the movement was contesting the election on its own because he wanted to avoid the "political mud and political trade" of electoral coalitions, saying, "people who think badly of each other are now supposedly uniting, and essentially they want to deceive the citizens of Serbia." The LJVN movement ultimately faired poorly in the election, falling below the electoral threshold.

Šarović announced in November 2023 that the movement would not participate in the 2023 Belgrade assembly election. He said he had planned to announce his candidacy but was unable to register due to bureaucratic obstruction from the SNS regime.

In March 2024, Šarović said that he was undecided about participating in the 2024 Belgrade assembly election and reiterated his previous opposition to large multi-party electoral coalitions. The LJVN movement ultimately did not participate, and Šarović called for the smaller opposition movements to withdraw to prevent vote splitting that would only favour the SNS.

Šarović also works as a journalist for KTV Zrenjanin. He has strongly criticized the Vučić government within the context of covering the ongoing anti-corruption protests in Serbia and has been detained by state authorities on at least two occasions."Ponovo priveden Nemanja Šarović"
''Beta'', 13 March 2025.

References

Conservative parties in Serbia
Eastern Orthodox political parties
Eurosceptic parties in Serbia
Political parties established in 2020
National conservative parties

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