People's Party (Serbia, 2017)
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People's Party
Народна странка Narodna stranka |
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| President | Vuk Jeremić |
| Founders | Vuk Jeremić and Miroslav Aleksić |
| Founded | 22 October 2017 |
| Headquarters | Maršala Birjuzova 47, Belgrade |
| Ideology |
Liberal conservativism Social liberalism Soft Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Colours | Blue |
| National Assembly |
3 / 250
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| Assembly of Vojvodina |
0 / 120
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| City Assembly of Belgrade |
7 / 110
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| Website | |
| www |
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The People's Party (Serbian: Народна странка, НС / Narodna stranka, NS) is a liberal conservative political party in Serbia. It is a centre-right political organization in Serbia, founded after 2017 presidential elections, by Vuk Jeremić. The party currently has three members serving in the National Assembly.
After his unsuccessful bid in an attempt to replace Ban Ki-Moon as UN Secretary-General in the end of 2016, he returned to Serbia, where he enjoyed relatively high approval ratings compared to other opposition politicians. He decided to run for president in 2017 presidential election, declining the option to support Saša Janković, who by then managed to gather a number of parties' support. Although many thought that opposition would have better chances against Vučić if united, and considered Janković a better option for a single opposition presidential candidate, Jeremić announced his candidacy nevertheless. He finished fourth, with little less than 6% of the vote.
In the aftermath of the election, though his results were quite disappointing, he announced he will form a party. He gathered support for such move mainly from conservative intellectuals who were opposing Vučić's government, and were previously tied with DSS (most notably Sanda Rašković-Ivić, a former DSS president). He formed the People's Party in October 2017. The People's Party was able to forgo the usual registration process for new parties in Serbia when Miroslav Aleksić, a member of the National Assembly, permitted his People's Movement of Serbia to be re-registered and re-constituted under the new party name. Representatives of the People's Party indicated that this decision removed the threat of the name being stolen during the registration process.
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