Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia

Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia
Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије
President Žika Gojković
Founded 18 June 2017
Headquarters Bulevar Despota Stefana 80, Belgrade
Ideology Monarchism
Christian democracy
Pro-Europeanism
National Assembly
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Website
www.poks.rs

The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia (Serbian: Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije (POKS); Serbian Cyrillic: Покрет обнове Краљевине Србије) is a monarchist political party in Serbia, founded in 2017 after a split within the Serbian Renewal Movement (Srpski pokret obnove; SPO). The party's leader is Žika Gojković.

History

The Movement for the Restoration of the Kingdom of Serbia was formed in June 2017, shortly after Gojković and others were expelled from the SPO after recommending that party leader Vuk Drašković step down from his position to become an honorary president.[1][2] The new party was officially registered on July 17, 2017, and Gojković was officially chosen as its leader on October 15, 2017.

Prior to the split, Gojković was one of three SPO members serving in the national assembly. All three had been elected in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election on an electoral list led by the Serbian Progressive Party, and all served in caucus with the Progressives. The SPO's other two assembly delegates have remained with the party. Despite leaving the SPO, Gojković has not left the Progressive Party caucus, where he continues to serve with his former party colleagues. On being chosen as POKS leader, he indicated his continued support of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić.[3]

The POKS briefly gained a second assembly member in May 2018, when independent delegate Nada Kostić, who had been elected on the It's Enough – Restart list, joined the party.[4] Shortly thereafter, however, she left the POKS to once again sit as an independent member.[5]

The party also has three seats in the Assembly of Vojvodina.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Pokret obnove kraljevine Srbije postao parlamentarna stranka", N1, 6 June 2017, accessed 19 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Žika Gojković: U Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije prelazi 80 odsto SPO-a", Blic (Source: Beta), 5 June 2017, accessed 19 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije izabrao rukovodstvo", N1, 15 October 2017, accessed 19 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Ušla u Skupštinu kao član DJB, preko DS postala član POKS, N1, 15 May 2018, accessed 16 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "I Žika ostao bez Nade", Novosti, 30 May 2018, accessed 3 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Pokret obnove Kraljevine Srbije izabrao rukovodstvo", N1, 15 October 2017, accessed 19 October 2017.
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