Democratic Opposition of Serbia

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The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Демократска oпозиција Cрбије, ДОС; Demokratska opozicija Srbije, DOS) was a wide alliance of political parties in Serbia, formed as a coalition against the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Its candidate, Vojislav Koštunica, won the September 2000 federal presidential elections and the coalition won the provincial parliamentary majority in December 2000. The coalition then formed the government which ruled Serbia until December 2003.

DOS was originally an 18-party coalition, including:

Democratic Party (DS) (Zoran Đinđić)
Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) (Vojislav Koštunica)
Civic Alliance of Serbia (GSS) (Goran Svilanović)
Demo-Christian Party of Serbia (DHSS) (Vladan Batić)
New Serbia (NS) (Velimir Ilić)
Social Democratic League of Vojvodina (LSV) (Nenad Čanak)
Socialdemocratic Union (SDU) (Žarko Korać)
Alliance of Hungarians from Vojvodina (SVM) (Jožef Kasa (Hungarian: Kasza József))
Reformist Democratic Party of Vojvodina (RDSV) (Mile Isakov)
Vojvodina Coalition (KV) (Dragan Veselinov)
Socialdemocracy (SD) (Vuk Obradović)
Movement for Democratic Serbia (PDS) (Momčilo Perišić)
Sandžak Democratic Party (SDP) (Rasim Ljajić)
League for Šumadija (LŠ) (Branislav Kovačević)
Association of Independent Labour Unions of Serbia (ASNS) (Dragan Milovanović)

3-party DAN coalition:
- Democratic Alternative (DA) (Nebojša Čović)
- New Democracy (ND) (Dušan Mihajlović)
- Democratic Center (DC) (Dragoljub Mićunović)

The interparty relations in the coalition started to deteriorate in 2001 when Koštunica's party, the Democratic Party of Serbia, pulled out of the coalition. The remainder has split into the Democratic Party and the G17 Plus group.