People's Radical Party () was a minor

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and

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political party in

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that existed from 1990 to 2010. The party considered itself the successor to the

People's Radical Party The People's Radical Party ( sr, Народна радикална странка, Narodna radikalna stranka, abbr. НРС or NRS) was the dominant ruling party of Kingdom of Serbia and later Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from the lat ...

that was active in the

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and

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History

The People's Radical Party considers itself a successor to the People's Radical Party, a powerful political party that was active in the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia, which was later banned in 1945 upon the establishment of the

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. The People's Radical Party was re-established in Serbia after the introduction of the multi-party system in 1990. Lawyer Veljko Guberina was elected president of the party in 1990 and the party participated at the 1990 parliamentary elections, however it only won 63,041 votes, or 1.25% of the popular vote. After the elections there was a party split. At the meeting of the Main Board in Belgrade, there was a conflict between Guberina and

Tomislav Nikolić Tomislav Nikolić ( sr-Cyrl, Томислав Николић, ; born 15 February 1952) is a Serbian retired politician who served as the president of Serbia from 2012 to 2017. A former member of the Far-right politics in Serbia, far-right Serb ...

, who led the Kragujevac Radicals. Although Guberina left the meeting with his supporters, Nikolić and his supporters left the party and founded the

Serbian Radical Party The Serbian Radical Party ( sr-cyrl, Српска радикална странка, Srpska radikalna stranka, ''SRS'') is an ultranationalist political party in Serbia. It was founded in 1991, and its founder and current leader is Vojislav � ...

in Kragujevac on 23 February 1991 and elected

Vojislav Šešelj Vojislav Šešelj ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав Шешељ, ; born 11 October 1954) is a Serbian politician, founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal ...

as the president of the newly formed party. After the departure of a large part of the members led by Tomislav Nikolić, the party significantly weakened its rating and did not pass the census in the elections. Due to the election defeat, Veljko Guberina resigned from the position of president and withdrew from politics, the party then elected him honorary president. Until recently, the party was led by Milan Jovanović and it only had deputies in

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. The party officially dissolved in 2010.

Electoral performance

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References

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