The Democratic Party (Serbian: Демократска странка or Demokratska stranka, listen (help· info)) is the largest center-left political party in Serbia. It is a social democratic party. ds logo-wikipedia claims fair use File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Boris Tadić   (Борис Тадић) (born 15 January 1958) is the President of Serbia. ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... Belgrade (Serbian:  ) is the capital and the largest city of Serbia. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... The official symbol of Socialist International The Socialist International is a worldwide organization of social democratic, labor, and democratic socialist political parties. ... The Party of European Socialists (PES) is a European political party whose members are 33 social democratic, socialist and labour parties of the European Union member states as well as Norway. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A yellow Tulip. ... Politics of Serbia and Montenegro takes place in a framework of a federal parliamentary republic, with a multi-party system. ... This article lists political parties in Serbia. ... Serbia elects on national level a legislature. ... Serbian (српски језик; srpski jezik) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Image File history File links DemokratskaStranka. ... The term center-left has two distinct meanings in politics: Center-left can be used to describe a moderately left-wing political party. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian written with the Cyrillic alphabet1 Government Parliamentary republic  -  President Boris Tadić  -  Prime Minister Vojislav KoÅ¡tunica Establishment  -  Formation 8th century   -  Independence c. ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ...

History

Interwar years

Democratic Party (DP) was founded in 1919 after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Independent Radical Party merged with Croatian and Slovenian parties to establish the social-liberal DP. The elected president of the party was Ljubomir Davidović, also a president of the Assembly and a mayor of Belgrade. After his death in 1940, Milan Grol took over the presidency. The Democratic Party (DP) won the majority of votes in the first elections held in 1920, and until 1929 they were in and out of government ( either independently or in coalition) or in opposition. In 1929 King Alexander abolished the constitution and created a personal dictatorship, changing the name of the country to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Democratic Party remained in opposition until World War II. Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state which existed from December 1, 1918 to mid-April 1941. ... Social liberalism is either a synonym for new liberalism or a label used by progressive liberal parties in order to differentiate themselves from the more conservative liberal parties, especially when there are two or more liberal parties in a country. ... Belgrade (Serbian:  ) is the capital and the largest city of Serbia. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... King Alexander I of Yugoslavia also called King Alexander Unificator (Serbian Краљ Александар I Карађорђевић, Latin: Kralj Aleksandar I KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević) (Cetinje, Montenegro, 16 December 1888 – Marseille, France, 9 October 1934) of the Royal House of KaraÄ‘orÄ‘ević was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1929–34) and before... Motto: One nation, one king, one country Anthem: Medley of Bože pravde, Lijepa naÅ¡a domovino, and Naprej zastava slave Capital Belgrade Language(s) Serbo-Croato-Slovenian (see: Serbo-Croat and Slovenian) [1] Government Value specified for government_type does not comply King  - 1918-1921 Peter I  - 1921-1934 Alexander... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

World War II

Following Yugoslavian occupation by Germany in 1941, most of the party leadership fled to England. The ones who stayed fought either along Chetniks or Partisans. For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... For the WWII guerilla force, see Yugoslav Army in the Fatherland. ... The Yugoslav partisans were the main anti-fascist resistance movement which fought against the occupation of Yugoslavia by Axis forces during World War II. The uniting force of the anti-fascist partisans on the territory was Peoples Liberation Army and Partisan detachments of Yugoslavia (NOV i POJ; Narodnooslobodila&#269...

In 1945 the leadership returned to Yugoslavia, but the Democratic Party called for a boycott of communist-organized elections in the same year. After the elections the Communist Party led by Josip Broz Tito banned the Democratic Party. The members were persecuted and many, including Milan Grol, arrested and sentenced to long terms in prison. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Josip Broz Tito (Cyrillic: Јосип Броз Тито, May 7, 1892 (May 25th according to official birth certificate) – May 4, 1980) was the leader of the Second Yugoslavia, which lasted from 1943 until 1991. ...

1990s

In 1990 Democratic Party was re-established by the few remaining members from the 1940s as well as a new generation of members. Dragoljub Mićunović was the first elected party president. Members participated in the first anti-government protests later in the year. The party won seven assembly seats in the December 1990 elections. MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Dragoljub Mićunović is one of the founding members of the Democratic Party in Serbia. ...

Zoran Đinđić was the second president of the party, elected at the party conference in January 1994. On 21 February 1997 he was elected Mayor of Belgrade following more than three months of peaceful protest marches by hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting against blatant vote rigging by Slobodan Milošević and his cronies. Zoran ĐinÄ‘ić, Ph. ... Slobodan MiloÅ¡ević (Požarevac, Nedićs Serbia, 20 August 1941 – The Hague, 11 March 2006) was President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia. ...

Recent events

The fall of Slobodan Milošević regime in 2000 occurred after street protests by hundreds of thousands of citizens. Democratic Party was the biggest party of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) that won 64.7% of the votes, getting 176 of 250 seats. In 2003, Zoran Đinđić, the Prime Minister of Serbia, was assassinated. Immediately after the assassination, a state of emergency was declared and the government mounted Operation Sablja. Boris Tadić was elected new president of Democratic party in 2004. He was nominated for the Serbian presidential elections in the same year, and won it while Democratic party was still in opposition in parliament. 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Democratic Opposition of Serbia was an alliance of political parties in Serbia, formed as an alliance against the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milosevic. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Operation Sablja (Operation Sabre) was launched on March 12, 2003, following the assassination of Zoran ĐinÄ‘ić, the Prime Minister of Serbia. ... Boris Tadić   (Борис Тадић) (born 15 January 1958) is the President of Serbia. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Democratic Party received 915,854 popular votes or 22.71%, and thus won 64 out of 250 seats in parliament in Serbian parliamentary election, 2007. 3 of its seats went to the Sanjak Democratic Party, which formed a club with DS under Dušan Petrović as president and Milan Marković as vice-president. At the first session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia the party mostly voted to refuse Martti Ahtisaari's proposal for Kosovo's solution. Parliamentary elections will be held in Serbia on 21 January 2007. ...

Policies

The Democratic Party's program states that:

• They support parliamentary democracy.
• Public administration and public services should be professional and depoliticized. Public service needs to be effective and respectful of its users.
• Government institutions should be cheap to maintain.
• The government should be checked by independent judiciary and independent media.
• They support decentralization of government, both territorially and fuctionally. Powers should be delegated to self-governing bodies whenever possible. Vojvodina should be truly autonomous.
• Acts of government should be transparent and monitored by the public.
• Participation of the people is essential, but governmental institutions need to be accessible.
• They support European integration.
• Government needs to ensure conditions in which businesses can operate freely.
• They support small and medium businesses, family owned businesses and independent farmers.
• There should be no discrimination based on sex, physical appearance, faith, beliefs or location.
• They support middle class.
• Government needs to invest in education, and transportation, energy and telecommunications infrastructure.
• They support social solidarity.
• Government should maintain welfare programs.
• They encourage creation of unions.

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External links

• Democratic Party official site
• Democratic Youth official site