Serbian Progressive Party

The Serbian Progressive Party (Serbian: Српска напредна странка, romanized: Srpska napredna stranka; abbr. СНС or SNS) is a right-wing populist[14][15][10] political party in Serbia.

Serbian Progressive Party

Српска напредна странка
Srpska napredna stranka
PresidentAleksandar Vučić
Deputy PresidentJorgovanka Tabaković
Vice PresidentsMarija Obradović
Marko Đurić
Miloš Vučević
Milenko Jovanov
Parliamentary leaderAleksandar Martinović
FoundersTomislav Nikolić
Aleksandar Vučić
Founded21 October 2008 (2008-10-21)
Split fromSerbian Radical Party
HeadquartersPalmira Toljatija 5, Belgrade
Membership (2019)730,000[1][2][3]
IdeologyRight-wing populism[4][5]
National conservatism[6]
Economic liberalism[7]
Big tent[8]
Pro-Europeanism[9]
Political positionCentre-right[10]
to right-wing[11][12][13]
National affiliationSNS-led coalition
European affiliationEuropean People's Party (associate)
International affiliationInternational Democrat Union
Colours     Blue
National Assembly
191 / 250
Assembly of Vojvodina
46 / 120
City Assembly of Belgrade
57 / 110
Party flag
Website
www.sns.org.rs

Founded in 2008 as a split from the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS), the culmination of a decade-long conflict within the SRS between the party's moderate and hard-line wings, the SNS managed to retain the former's national conservative outlook, while adopting distinct pro-European policies.

This combination has transformed the SNS into the current ruling party in Serbia. As it is the senior party in the current government coalition, the party's leader Aleksandar Vučić is currently serving as the President of Serbia since 2017. As of August 2018, the party holds 96 seats in the National Assembly.[16]

History
Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić at the SNS founding convention on 21 October 2008.

The Serbian Progressive Party was formed by a group of 21 former Serbian Radical Party (SRS) MPs led by Tomislav Nikolić. Disenchanted with the direction of the party, the pro-EU members[17] left and formed the Forward Serbia parliamentary group. The SNS was founded and held its first congressional meeting on 21 October 2008.[18]

Of the Serbian Radical Party's representatives elected in the 2008 parliamentary election, 21 moved to the Serbian Progressive Party, while 57 remained in the SRS.

In 2011, the SNS formed a pre-election coalition with New Serbia, the Strength of Serbia Movement and the Movement of Socialists to participate in the 2012 election.[19]

In the 2012 parliamentary election, the party led the "Let's Get Serbia Moving" coalition and gained 55 seats out of 73 won by the coalition in the National Assembly. Party leader Tomislav Nikolić defeated Boris Tadić of the Democratic Party in the second round of the 2012 presidential election.[20]

Following his election as President of Serbia, Nikolić stepped down as leader of the party on 24 May 2012, leaving deputy president Aleksandar Vučić in charge until a successor was elected.[21] Vučić was the only candidate who ran for the party leadership, and was elected on 29 September 2012, with Jorgovanka Tabaković as his deputy.[22]

In December 2012, the People's Party led by ex-Mayor of Novi Sad Maja Gojković, merged into the SNS.[23]

The Serbian Progressive Party maintains cooperation with the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Fidesz, Freedom Party of Austria[24] and United Russia party.[25] On 24 April 2013 the SNS' representatives in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe joined the Group of the European People's Party.[26]

On 18 March 2019 the Serbian Progressive Party in Belgrade signed a joint statement with the United Russia party to improve Russia-Serbia strategic partnership in the interests of both nations.[27]

On 2 April 2020, Twitter announced that they removed 8,558 accounts that promoted the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and Aleksandar Vučić, but also that they criticized the opposition.[28][29]

Presidents of the Serbian Progressive Party (2008–present)
No. President Birth–Death Term start Term end
1 Tomislav Nikolić1952–21 October 200824 May 2012
2 Aleksandar Vučić[nb 1]1970–24 May 2012Incumbent

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections
National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalition Government
2008 Tomislav Nikolić Split from Serbian Radical Party
21 / 250
 21 — opposition
2012 940,659 24.05%
58 / 250
 37 PS government
2014 Aleksandar Vučić 1,736,920 48.35%
128 / 250
 70 BKV government
2016 1,823,147 48.25%
93 / 250
 35 SP government
2020 62.6℅
189 / 250
 58 ZND government

Years in government (2012–)

Presidential elections
President of Serbia
Year Candidate 1st round popular vote % of popular vote 2nd round popular vote % of popular vote
2012 Tomislav Nikolić 2nd 979,216 25.05% 1st 1,552,063 49.54%
2017 Aleksandar Vučić 1st 2,012,788 56.01% N/A — —

Positions held

Major positions held by Serbian Progressive Party members:

President of SerbiaYears
Tomislav Nikolić 2012–2017
Aleksandar Vučić 2017–
Prime Minister of SerbiaYears
Aleksandar Vučić 2014–2017
Ana Brnabić 2017–
President of the National Assembly of SerbiaYears
Nebojša Stefanović 2012–2014
Maja Gojković 2014–
Governor of the National Bank of SerbiaYears
Jorgovanka Tabaković 2012–
President of the Government of VojvodinaYears
Igor Mirović 2016–
Mayor of BelgradeYears
Siniša Mali 2014–2018
Zoran Radojičić 2018–

See also

Notes
  1. Acting party leader until 29 September 2012

References
  1. "SNS je najveća partija u Evropi po broju članova!". alo.rs.
  2. "SNS: Više članova nego sve stranke zajedno u dvadesetjednoj od 28 država EU". N1.
  3. "SNS IMA 175.000 ČLANOVA VIŠE NEGO VLADAJUĆE STRANKE U BRITANIJI I NEMAČKOJ: A ove dve zemlje imaju 140 miliona stanovnika više od Srbije!". espreso.rs.
  4. "Serbia: Economic and Political Overview". Nordea Trade. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  5. "Serbian political outline". Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  6. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2016). "Serbia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  7. Stojic, Marko (2017). Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans. Springer. p. 138.
  8. "Serbian Compliance Patterns towards EU Integration under the Progressive Party: An Exercise in Statecraft" (PDF). Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  9. "Key Parties in Serbia". 27 September 2010.
  10. "Serbia election: Pro-EU Prime Minister Vucic claims victory". BBC. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  11. "Deutsche Welle: Expansion of right wing in Europe and its effects on Serbia". Serbian monitor. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
  12. "Serbia's opposition-boycotted general election set for April". The Associated Press. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  13. "Serbia's opposition to boycott April election". Al Jazeera. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  14. Zulianello, Mattia (2019). "Varieties of Populist Parties and Party Systems in Europe: From State-of-the-Art to the Application of a Novel Classification Scheme to 66 Parties in 33 Countries". Government and Opposition: 5.
  15. "Post election Serbia: good news for the EU? | cepolicy.org".
  16. "National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia - Political Parties". www.parlament.gov.rs.
  17. "Poll: Progressive Party is pro-EU, but its voters are not". B92. 18 April 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  18. "Nikolić party to be called "Serb Progressive"". B92. 24 September 2008. Archived from the original on 28 September 2008.
  19. "Press Green". Press Online.
  20. "Tomislav Nikolić wins in presidential runoff". B92. 20 May 2012. Archived from the original on 23 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  21. "Serbia's new president quits as party leader". B92. 24 May 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
  22. "Progressives elect new leader, deputy leader". B92. 29 September 2012. Archived from the original on 4 February 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2012.
  23. "Maja Gojković: Narodna partija kolektivno prešla u SNS" (in Serbian). Blic. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2013.
  24. Marcus Schneider (July 2011). "Tomislav Nikolic positioniert sich in Europa - Bündnis mit Österreichs Rechtspopulisten" (PDF) (in German). Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  25. "Agreement for cooperation between SNS and United Russia". SNS website. September 2011.
  26. "SNS becomes member of European People's Party". B92. 24 April 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
  27. "POTPISANA ZAJEDNIČKA IZJAVA: Produbiti strateško partnerstvo Srpske napredne stranke i Jedinstvene Rusije" (in Serbian). Kurir. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  28. Twitter Safety (2 April 2020). "Toward the end of last year, we identified clusters of accounts engaged in inauthentic coordinated activity which led to the removal of 8,558 accounts working to promote Serbia's ruling party and its leader".
  29. The Guardian (2 April 2020). "Twitter deletes 20,000 fake accounts linked to Saudi, Serbian and Egyptian governments".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.