The Serbian Radical Party (Serbian: Српска радикална странка, Srpska radikalna stranka) is a political party in Serbia. Serbian radical party was formed in 1991 when Peoples Radical Party and Serbian Chetniks Movement joined in one organisation. Serbian Chetnik Movement was formed after a split in the Serbian Renewal Movement in 1990. It supports a Greater Serbian idea and claims Chetnik heritage.
At the 2003 general elections, it picked up a plurality of seats and votes, with 27% share and 81 of 250 seats.
The Radical Party’s policies include implementing United Nations Resolution 1244 allowing Serbian police and Army to protect their citizens in the Nato-occupied Serbian province of Kosovo-Metohija. The SRS has been part of a Government coalition with Slobodan Milošević’s Socialist Party of Serbia during his presidency.
Since the SRS won the majority of votes in last December’s parliamentary elections, they have added a lot of social elements to their programme.
The SRS's deputy president, leading the Party while Šešelj is in The Hague is Tomislav Nikolic. Nikolic won one of the invalid presidential elections when less than 50 per cent of citiznes voted. In the last presidential election the law on turnout was abolished. In first round of Serbian presidential elections, 2004 he won about 30% of votes. In the second round he lost to DS leader Boris Tadic winning 45%.
The SerbRadicalParty holds that the truthful representation of the events of the past and the present is a moral duty and method suited to the objectives, which watch over the dignity of the people and personal pride.
The SerbRadicalParty is pledged to the abolition of the autonomy of Vojvodina and Kosovo and Metohija and we are against any territorial special status, except if the Macedonians decide to live in a common state with the Serbs, if they find that this is in their existential and vital interest.
The SerbRadicalParty holds that the national minority question and the protection of their rights and freedoms are among the indicators of the true respect for the principle of the equitable status and equality of citizens, and also an important indicator of the level of development of democratic relations in a country.
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