Peasants Party of Serbia

The Peasants Party of Serbia (Serbian: Сељачка странка Србије or Seljačka stranka Srbije) was a political party in Serbia.

History

It was founded on 26 October 1990 in Kragujevac by Milomir Babić at which point it was called the Party of the Serbian Peasants Union.^[1] In the 1990 legislative election, it won 1,1% and 2 seats in two districts. The elected MPs were Milomir Babić in Desimirovac and Ljubomir Dodić in Milutovac.^[2] In the 1992 legislative election it won 2,7% and 3 seats.

In 1996 Živko Selaković was elected party president.^[3] In the 1997 election it was part of an alliance around the Democratic Alternative headed by Nebojša Čović and won no seats. In the 2000 election it was part of the Party of Serbian Unity list and won one seat.

On 23 January 2003 it formed a new parliamentary group "Serbia" with the United Pensioners' Party and three former members of New Serbia.^[4] One day later, the UPP withdrew from the parliamentary group.^[5] It was later joined by the People's Peasant Party, which was expelled from the Vojvodina Coalition.^[6] On 9 February 2003 a bomb was set outside Selaković's family home in Žarkovo. Allegedly, he had been receiving threats from Party of Serbian Unity leaders Borislav Pelević and Dragan Marković Palma. Pelević denied threatening Selaković and condemned the attack.^[7][8]

On 30 December 2009 the PPS merged into the Social Democratic Party of Serbia and ceased to exist.^[9]

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