Serbian Radical Party
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Serbian Radical Party
Српска радикална странка Srpska radikalna stranka |
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| President | Vojislav Šešelj |
| Founded | 23 February 1991 |
| Headquarters | Magistratski trg 3, Zemun, Belgrade |
| Paramilitary wing | White Eagles (1991–95) |
| Membership (2017) |
 510,000 |
| Ideology | Serbian nationalism Expansionist nationalism Right-wing populism Social conservatism Russophilia Euroscepticism Anti-Islamism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue |
| Slogan | Serbia in secure hands |
| National Assembly |
22 / 250
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| Assembly of Vojvodina |
10 / 120
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The Serbian Radical Party (Serbian: Српска радикална странка, CPC / Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS) is a far right, Serbian nationalist political party in Serbia. The party was founded in 1991 by Vojislav Šešelj.
Šešelj led the party since its foundation until his voluntary extradition to the ICTY in 2003, on charges of involvement in war crimes during the Bosnian War. His deputy president Tomislav Nikolić assumed de facto leadership of the party until its split in 2008. Nikolić resigned from the SRS over disagreements with Šešelj on the direction of the party and took much of the high-ranking members with him to form the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). Once one of the largest political parties in Serbia, the SRS lost all of its seats in the 2012 parliamentary elections, although it still holds 17 seats in the Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija and 10 seats in the Assembly of Vojvodina. The SRS has local party branches in neighboring Montenegro, the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), and the Republic of Macedonia. In the Serbian parliamentary election, 2016 the SRS gained 22 seats in the national assembly.
The party's core ideology is based on Serbian nationalism and the goal of creating a Greater Serbia. The party is also strongly opposed to European integration (euroscepticism) and globalization, advocating for closer ties with Russia instead. The SRS is extremely critical of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where Šešelj was incarcerated from 2003 to 2014. The party regards former general Ratko Mladić and former Republika Srpska president Radovan Karadžić as "Serbian heroes".
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