The People's Movement of Serbia (, abbr. NPS) is a

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has been the party's president since its reformation in August 2023. NPS previously existed from 2014 to 2017 and was also led by Aleksić, who was its only member in the

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. In October 2017, Aleksić allowed the party to be re-registered as the People's Party under the leadership of

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History

2014–2017

Miroslav Aleksić became

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of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of the

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(''Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije'', URS). The URS largely became dormant after the

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, and Aleksić left the party later in the year and became acting leader of a breakaway group initially called the People's Party of Serbia (''Narodna stranka Srbije'', NSS). The group was formally constituted as the People's Movement of Serbia in January 2015, and Aleksić was chosen as its leader in February. The party contested the 2016 parliamentary election as part of the ''Alliance for a Better Serbia'' list led by

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and Nenad Čanak. Aleksić received the eighth position on the electoral list and was elected when the alliance won thirteen mandates. The People's Movement of Serbia operated in a parliamentary alliance with Tadić's

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, which also contested the 2016 elections in the ''Alliance for a Better Serbia''. Aleksić served as the parliamentary group's deputy leader. Both the alliance with the Social Democratic Party and Aleksić's deputy leadership of the parliamentary group continued after the party was restructured as the People's Party.

2023–present

NPS was reconstituted on 6 August 2023 after Aleksić left the People's Party. Alongside Aleksić, members of the National Assembly Slavica Radovanović, Borislav Novaković, and Đorđe Stanković, and councillors in the

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joined the party. Aleksić announced that the party would begin collecting signatures to again become a registered political party. On 25 August, Aleksić announced that they collected over 10,000 signatures. The party was subsequently registered in October 2023. NPS became part of the Serbia Against Violence coalition in October 2023, a coalition of political parties organising the 2023 protests.

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

References

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