Serbian Renewal Movement
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Serbian Renewal Movement
Српски покрет обнове Srpski pokret obnove |
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| Leader | Vuk Drašković |
| Founder | Vuk Drašković and Vojislav Šešelj |
| Founded | March 14, 1990 |
| Headquarters | Knez Mihailova Street 48, Belgrade |
| Military wing | Serbian Guard (1991) |
| Membership (2012) | 70,000 |
| Ideology |
Monarchism Pro-Europeanism Atlanticism Anti-communism Christian Democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| European affiliation | None |
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The Serbian Renewal Movement (Serbian: Српски покрет обнове/Srpski pokret obnove, SPO) is a monarchist political party in Serbia.
The Serbian Renewal Movement party was founded in 1990 through the merger of Drašković's faction from the Serbian National Renewal (SNO) party and Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Freedom Movement. Šešelj left the party in 1991 after internal quarrels and founded the Serbian Radical Party.
The Democratic Movement of Serbia was formed in May 1992 as an political alliance made up primarily of SPO, New Democracy (ND), Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). The political alliance however broke, and was dissolved in 1993. The SPO was part of the "Together" (Zajedno) coalition in the 1996 parliamentary election which received 23.8% of the popular vote, losing to the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS). In 1997, Drašković ran twice for president but finished third in both elections. Its party won the third largest number of seats in that year's Serbian parliamentary elections. A dissident group inside the party abandoned the SPO and formed New Serbia (NS) in 1997.
In early 1999, the SPO joined the Slobodan Milošević-led government, and Drašković became a Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister. The SPO had a place in Serbia's Rambouillet Agreement delegation and held posts such as the Yugoslav Information Ministry to show a more pro-Western face to the world in the run-up to NATO's bombing campaign in 1999 against the country. In the midst of the war, Drašković and the SPO pulled out of the government, calling on Milošević to surrender to NATO.
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