G17 Plus

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G17 Plus

Г17 Плус
G17 Plus



Leader	Mlađan Dinkić

Founded	2002
Headquarters	Trg Republike 5, Belgrade

Political ideology	Liberal conservatism,moderate Conservatism, Liberalism
International affiliation	none
European affiliation	European People's Party
Colour(s)	Blue

Website	www.g17plus.org.yu

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G17 Plus is one of the main center-right political parties in Serbia. It is a liberal conservative party.

Its core consisted of a group of 17 experts (economists, historians, political scientists) originally formed as a NGO in 1997. The organization officially became a political party on December 16, 2002 after Miroljub Labus left the Democratic Party. Labus was the first president of the party.

At the Serbian parliamentary election, 2003, the party won 11.5% of the popular vote which translated into 34 seats (out of 250) in the Serbian parliament. Three of those seats went to the Social Democratic Party which competed on the G17 Plus' electoral list.

In March 2004, G17 Plus formed a minority government with Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and a 2-party pre-election coalition of Serbian Renewal Movement (SPO) and New Serbia (NS).

The former speaker of National Assembly of Serbia, Predrag Marković was a member of G17 Plus. He was also constitutional interim acting president in 2004.

In May 2006 President Miroljub Labus resigned on that position. The new president is the current MP and Minister of Finance of Serbia, Mlađan Dinkić.

On October 1, 2006, G17 Plus announced that it was quitting the coalition government over the inability of the government at capturing the Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić.

At the Serbian parliamentary election, 2007, G17+ received 275,041 or 6.82% of the popular vote and 19 seats in the National Assembly. It alone formed a club, whose president is Mlađan Dinkić and Verica Kalanović as vice-president.

[edit] See also

Conservatism in Serbia

[edit] External links

G17 Plus official site

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