People's Movement of Serbia
Political party in Serbia
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The People's Movement of Serbia (Serbian: Народни покрет Србије, romanised: Narodni pokret Srbije, abbr. NPS) is a centre-right political party in Serbia. Miroslav Aleksić has been the party's president since its reformation in August 2023.
- Borislav Novaković
- Đorđe Stanković
- Uroš Đokić
- Ivana Rokvić
- Ana Jakovljević
- Miloš Pavlović
People's Movement of Serbia Народни покрет Србије | |
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| Abbreviation | NPS |
| President | Miroslav Aleksić |
| Vice-Presidents |
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| Parliamentary leader | Miroslav Aleksić |
| Founded |
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| Dissolved | 22 October 2017 (first) |
| Split from |
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| Succeeded by | People's Party (first) |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Parliamentary group | NPS–NLS |
| Colours | Blue |
| National Assembly | 10 / 250 |
| Assembly of Vojvodina | 5 / 120 |
| City Assembly of Belgrade | 3 / 110 |
| Website | |
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NPS previously existed from 2014 to 2017 and was also led by Aleksić, who was its only member in the National Assembly of Serbia. In October 2017, Aleksić allowed the party to be re-registered as the People's Party under the leadership of Vuk Jeremić.[1]
History
2014–2017
Miroslav Aleksić became mayor of Trstenik in 2012 as a member of the United Regions of Serbia (Ujedinjeni regioni Srbije, URS). The URS largely became dormant after the 2014 Serbian parliamentary election, and Aleksić left the party later in the year[2] and became acting leader of a breakaway group initially called the People's Party of Serbia (Narodna stranka Srbije, NSS).[3][4][5] The group was formally constituted as the People's Movement of Serbia in January 2015, and Aleksić was chosen as its leader in February.[6][7][8]
The party contested the 2016 parliamentary election as part of the Alliance for a Better Serbia list led by Boris Tadić, Čedomir Jovanović and Nenad Čanak. Aleksić received the eighth position on the electoral list[9] and was elected when the alliance won thirteen mandates.
The People's Movement of Serbia operated in a parliamentary alliance with Tadić's Social Democratic Party, which also contested the 2016 elections in the Alliance for a Better Serbia. Aleksić served as the parliamentary group's deputy leader.[10] 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.[11]
2023–present
NPS was reconstituted on 6 August 2023 after Aleksić left the People's Party.[12] Alongside Aleksić, members of the National Assembly Slavica Radovanović, Borislav Novaković, and Đorđe Stanković, and councillors in the City Assembly of Belgrade joined the party.[12] Aleksić announced that the party would begin collecting signatures to again become a registered political party.[13] On 25 August, Aleksić announced that they collected over 10,000 signatures.[14] 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.[15]
Ideology and platform
The NPS has been described as an anti-corruption,[16] conservative,[17] and centre-right political party.[18]
Election results
Parliamentary elections
| Year | Leader | Popular vote | % of popular vote | # | # of seats | Seat change | Coalition | Status | Ref. |
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| 2016 | Miroslav Aleksić | 189,564 | 5.17% |  7th |
1 / 250 |
1 |
NPS–SDS–LDP–LSV | Opposition | [19] |
| 2023 | 902,450 | 24.32% | 2nd |
10 / 250 |
8 |
SPN | Opposition | [20] |