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Liberal Democratic Party
Либерално демократска странка
Liberalno demokratska stranka
Former nameLiberal Party
Abbreviation
  • LS (until 1997)
  • LDS (after 1997)
President
Founded14 December 1989 (1989-12-14)
Registered4 January 1994 (1994-01-04)
Dissolved19 January 2010 (2010-01-19)
Succeeded by Serbian Monarchists
Headquarters
  • Pantićeva 70, Valjevo
  • Njegoševa 1, Belgrade (until 2000)
  • Mutapova 12, Belgrade (after 2000)
Ideology
Political position Syncretic
Colours
  •   Blue
  •   Gray
Slogan
  • "Za obnovu Monarhije – za obnovu sela"
  • ("For the renewal of the monarchy – for the renewal of villages")
Website

The Liberal Democratic Party ( Serbian: Либерално демократска странка, romanized: Liberalno demokratska stranka, abbr. LDS), known as the Liberal Party ( Serbian: Либерална странка, romanized: Liberalna stranka, abbr. LS) until 1997, was a political party in Serbia. Founded in 1989, its first president was Aleksandar Stefanović [ sr]. Stefanović left LS to join Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Chetnik Movement in June 1990. He was then succeeded as president by Predrag Vuletić.

LS was opposed to Slobodan Milošević and his Socialist Party of Serbia, and organised anti-government protests with other opposition parties in the 1990s. LS achieved its best results in parliamentary elections in 1990, and in all subsequent elections up to 1997, it received less than a 1,000 votes. Vuletić also ran three times in presidential elections on behalf of the party, achieving his best result in the December 1997 election. LDS claimed membership in the Democratic Movement of Serbia coalition and was later a member of the Alliance for Change, the predecessor coalition of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia that toppled Milošević in 2000. In the 2000s, LDS contested four local elections but did not gain any representation. Vuletić offered the party to Čedomir Jovanović, the founder of the Liberal Democratic Faction inside the Democratic Party, in 2004, but Jovanović never responded and formed his Liberal Democratic Party instead. LDS was succeeded by the Serbian Monarchists association in January 2010. Vuletić joined New Serbia in 2011.

The party declared itself as a liberal party that is against nationalism, with its first president also describing LS as "a party of the European left". It had ambitions to join the Liberal International. Despite this, the party was anti-communist, supported the restoration of the monarchy, rehabilitation of Chetniks leader Draža Mihailović, and lustration of former members of League of Communists of Yugoslavia. LDS supported the accession of Serbia to the European Union and NATO.

History

1990s

The Liberal Party (LS) was founded on 14 December 1989 in Valjevo by former members of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Serbia. [1] [2] [3]: 58  Its founders included Aleksandar Stefanović [ sr], Predrag Vuletić, Slaven Batoćanin, and Milan Ulm. [3]: 58  [4] Stefanović was the first president. [3]: 58  He, however, defected to Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Chetnik Movement once it was formed on 18 June 1990. [3]: 58  Vuletić then succeeded him as president of LS. [3]: 58 

Alongside the Democratic Party (DS), People's Radical Party (NRS), Serbian Renewal Movement, and Social Democratic Party of Yugoslavia, LS was one of the organisers of the 13 June 1990 opposition protest in Belgrade; Vuletić gave a speech during the protest, demanding Slobodan Milošević, the president of Serbia and Socialist Party of Serbia, to call early elections, improve electoral conditions, and to adopt a new election after the first multi-party elections. [5] LS claims that it was also one of the organisers of the 12 September 1990 and the 1991 protests in Belgrade. [4] LS took part in its first elections in December 1990, in which the party won 7,235 votes. [6] Vuletić was also a candidate in the presidential elections, in which he won 5,019 votes. [7]

LS claimed that it was a member of the Democratic Movement of Serbia coalition. [4] Despite this, LS contested the 1992 and 1993 elections alone. [8]: 122, 125  In the 1992 parliamentary election, LS contested the Belgrade constituency, where it presented 32 candidates, with Vuletić listed first. [9] In the 1993 parliamentary election, LS again only contested the Belgrade constituency, this time in a coalition with the Belgrade Party; Vuletić was not a candidate. [10] In both elections, LS was unsuccessful, winning only 632 and 275 votes respectively. [11] [12] It was registered as a political party on 4 January 1994. [4]

During the 1996 local elections, LS was supportive of the opposition Together coalition. [4] To avoid confusion between LS and the Serbian Liberal Party, LS changed its name to Liberal Democratic Party (LDS) on 15 February 1997. [4] [13] [14] Later that year, LDS contested the September 1997 elections. [8]: 129  In the parliamentary elections, LDS contested the Valjevo constituency and received 503 votes. [15] [16] Vuletić was also a candidate in the presidential elections; he won 11,463 votes. [17] [18] He did not publish a programme for the presidential election. [19] Early presidential elections were called for December 1997 due to low turnout in the September 1997 elections. [20] Vuletić officially became a candidate on 16 November. [21] He campaigned with a slogan, "come to your senses, Serbia. Vote for a Serb who was not a communist" (Osvesti se, Srbijo. Glasaj za Srbina koji nije bio komunista). [21] Vuletić was featured on a television programme with Milan Milutinović, the presidential candidate of the SPS, who would also go on to become the president of Serbia, during which they presented their programmes. [20] Vuletić placed last in the election, winning 21,353 votes in total. [22]

LDS was later a member of the Alliance for Change, the predecessor coalition of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that toppled Milošević in the 2000 elections. [4] [23] LDS was an organiser of anti-government protests in Valjevo in February, September, and October 1999. [23] [24] [25] During the protests in September and October, Vuletić was detained and called to answer the violations he committed due to not reporting the protests to the authorities. [24] [25] Newspaper Vreme also reported that Vuletić claimed to be a member of DOS. [26]

2000s

LDS contested the September 2004 local elections in Barajevo and Valjevo, featuring 13 candidates in total. [27]: 30  In Barajevo, it won 45 votes and in Valjevo it won 86 votes. [27]: 40, 73  In Valjevo, LDS nominated Vojislav Andrić as their mayoral candidate. [28] After Čedomir Jovanović formed the Liberal Democratic Faction inside the DS in 2004, Vuletić objected to the registration of Jovanović's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) due to its similar name in English. [29] Vuletić offered Jovanović to take over the LDS leadership only if he would support the restoration of Serbian monarchy in return; Vuletić told the Glas javnosti newspaper in 2005 that Jovanović did not respond to his proposal. [29] Vuletić submitted a request to the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in November 2005 to reject LDP from being registered, but LDP was eventually registered. [30] [31]

The last elections LDS contested were the 2008 local elections; in Žagubica, LDS contested the elections alone and won 203 votes. [32]: 55  In Valjevo, LDS contested as the Coalition for the Monarchy, which also included the NRS, People's Peasant Party, and the Ravna Gora Movement (RP), and won 265 votes. [32]: 10, 52 

A new law regarding the registration of political parties was adopted in July 2009. [33] The new law offered already-registered parties to re-register in the next sixth months. [34] [35] Instead of re-registering, LDS merged with RP to create the Serbian Monarchists (SM) association on 19 January 2010. [36] In 2011, Vuletić joined the New Serbia. [37]

Ideology and platform

LS declared itself to be the continuers of the "tradition of the Liberal Party" that existed in the 19th century, and described itself as a liberal party that is against nationalism and discrimination and in favour of equality and tolerance. [4] [38] In the Europa World Year Book, LS is listed as a party that favours a free market economy. [1] Its economic programme was written by Zoran Popov, a professor at the Faculty of Economics of University of Belgrade. [4] It was in favour of liberal democracy. [39] LDS had ambitions to join the Liberal International. [29]

Author Robert Thomas described LS as a hybrid party, stating that Stefanović wrote a book that praised Draža Mihailović, the leader of Chetniks during World War II, but also portrayed LS as "a party of the European left". [3]: 58  The party was anti-communist, and it supported the rehabilitation of Mihailović. [4] [37] On 13 May 1990, the party unsuccessfully tried to place a memorial plaque dedicated to Mihailović on Ravna Gora, but was stopped by the police. [4] [37]

LDS also supported the restoration of Serbian monarchy. [4] According to its programme, LDS supported regionalism, privatisation, environmentalism, lustration of former members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and accession of Serbia to the European Union and NATO. [40]

Organisation

LDS only had two presidents during its existence, this being Stefanović and Vuletić. [3]: 58  According to its website from 2003, Vesna Prodanova and Slobodan Jončić served as vice-presidents of the party, while Zoran Bojković was the president of the Belgrade chapter of LDS. [41] By 2009, LDS claimed to have chapters in 50 municipalities. [42]

The party had two headquarters, one in Valjevo at Pantićeva 70 and one in Belgrade at Njegoševa 1. [1] [40] In 1997, its legal headquarters were moved from Valjevo to Belgrade. [4] In 2000, its headquarters in Belgrade were moved to Mutapova 12. [4] [43] By November 2005, however, Glas javnosti reported that their headquarters in Belgrade were closed. [29] After the dissolution of LDS, their headquarters in Valjevo were legally occupied by its successor that illegally ran a café in the building that was owned by the local government. [44] [45] The association was moved out of the premises in March 2015 and the association ceased to exist in May 2015. [36] [44]

The party used "for the renewal of the monarchy – for the renewal of villages" (za obnovu Monarhije – za obnovu sela) as its slogan. [4] [40]

List of presidents

# President Birth–Death Term start Term end
1 Aleksandar Stefanović [ sr] 1953– 14 December 1989 18 June 1990
2 Predrag Vuletić 1952– 18 June 1990 19 January 2010

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status Ref.
1990 Predrag Vuletić 7,325 0.15% Increase 22nd
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [6]
1992 632 0.01% Decrease 46th
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [11]
1993 275 0.01% Increase 42nd
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [12]
1997 503 0.01% Decrease 44th
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [16]

Presidential elections

President of Serbia
Year Candidate 1st round popular vote % of popular vote 2nd round popular vote % of popular vote Ref.
1990 Predrag Vuletić 21st 5,109 0.10% — — — [6]
1992 Did not participate –
Sep 1997 Predrag Vuletić 11th 11,463 0.29% — — — [46]
Dec 1997 7th 21,353 0.57% — — — [22]

Local elections

Date Municipality Popular vote % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status Ref.
19 September 2004 Barajevo 45 0.65% Increase 11th
0 / 33
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [27]: 40 
Valjevo 86 0.27% Increase 20th
0 / 51
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [27]: 73 
11 May 2008 Žagubica 203 2.55% Increase 8th
0 / 33
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [32]: 55 
Valjevo 265 0.55% Increase 10th
0 / 51
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary [32]: 52 

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