The Liberals of Serbia (; abbr. ЛС, LS) was a political party in Serbia.
History The party was founded in 1990 when the Social Democratic Youth League reconstituted itself as Movement for Serbia – New Democracy. The party was renamed to just New Democracy in March 1993.
In the 1993 election, when the Socialist Party of Serbia lost its majority in parliament, New Democracy, which had previously belonged to the DEPOS, supported the socialists in gaining a parliamentary majority necessary to form a government, citing Milošević's commitment to securing a peace plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1998, New Democracy left the government and was replaced by the Serbian Radical Party.
In 2000, New Democracy was a part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) coalition, the candidate of which, Vojislav Koštunica, won the 2000 presidential elections. At the parliamentary election in the same year, the party was part of the same coalition and participated in the government which was formed by DOS. In 2003 the party was renamed Liberals of Serbia.
On 4 July 2003, Liberals of Serbia representative Rebeka Božović became deputy mayor of Belgrade."Smenjen potpredsednik gradske vlade Dragan Jočić, DSS se povukao iz IO", B92, 4 July 2003, accessed 15 August 2026. She served in this role until after the 2004 Serbian local elections.
At the parliamentary election on 28 December 2003 Liberals of Serbia put up as candidates the former Serbian Interior Minister Dušan Mihajlović and the former Chief of Serbian Police, General Sreten Lukić, the latter indicted for war crimes in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The party won 0.7% of the popular vote and no seats.
In October 2005 Mihajlović stepped down and Radivoje Lazarević, former Yugoslav ambassador to Brazil, took over as party president.
In 2010, acting president of the party, Miroslav Stefanović, was fined 150.000 RSD for falsely accusing Vladimir Beba Popović of being responsible for the assassination of Zoran Đinđić in 2007.
The party ceased to exist in 2010.
Electoral performance Parliamentary elections Year Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalitions Government 1992 797,831 16.89% 1 DEPOS 1993 715,564 16.64% 5 DEPOS 1997 1,418,036 34.26% 1 Left Coalition 2000 2,402,387 64.09% 4 DOS 2003 22,852 0.59% 9 non-parliamentary 2007 134,147 3.33% With SPO–NSS non-parliamentary
Federal elections Year Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalitions Government 1996 1,848,669 42.90% 3 Left Coalition 2000 2,040,646 (Chamber of Citizens)2,092,799 (Chamber of Republics) 42.88% (Chamber of Citizens)43.98% (Chamber of Republics) 1 DOS
See also Liberalism in Serbia Serbian Liberal Party
References
External links Official webpage