The People's Peasant Party (, abbr. NSS) is an agrarian political party in Serbia.
History
It was founded in 1990, its first president being Dragan Veselinov.Robert Thomas: Serbia under Milošević: politics in the 1990s, pp. 65–66 At this point, its policies were Vojvodina autonomist and social democratic.
In the 1990 election it won one seat. In the 1992 election it entered into a coalition with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina (LSV), as well as Serbian successors to Union of Reform Forces of Yugoslavia and Association for the Yugoslav Democratic Initiative, respectively renamed the Reform Party and the Republican Club. The coalition was called the Civic Alliance of Serbia (GSS) and won no seats.Robert Thomas: Serbia under Milošević: politics in the 1990s, pp. 116-117 The LSV and NSS left the GSS coalition before the 1993 election. In the 1997 election it was part of the regionalist Vojvodina Coalition and won one seat.Robert Thomas: Serbia under Milošević: politics in the 1990s, p. 183
Since 2002, the party has been led by Marijan Rističević. In 2003 it was expelled from the Vojvodina Coalition.
In the 2003 election, it was part of the far-right For National Unity coalition which won no seats. In the 2007 election the party ran on Serbian Renewal Movement's list, which won no seats. In the 2012 election it was part of a centre-right coalition around the Serbian Progressive Party and won one seat. In the 2014 election it was not formally in coalition with the Serbian Progressive Party, however it won one seat as Marijan Rističević was listed on the Progressives' electoral list.
List of presidents President Birth–Death Term start Term end 1 Dragan Veselinov 1950– 1990 2002 2 Marijan Rističević 1958– 2002 Incumbent
Electoral performance Parliamentary elections + National Assembly of Serbia Year Leader Popular vote % of popular vote # of seats Seat change Coalition Status 1990 Dragan Veselinov 68,045 1.41% 7th 1 – 1992 36,780 0.83% 11th 1 NSS–LSV–GSS 1993 Election boycott – – 1997 112,589 2.83% 4th 1 KV 2000 2,404,758 65.69% 1st 3 DOS 2003 Marijan Rističević 68,537 1.82% 10th 4 ZNJ 2007 134,147 3.38% 7th 0 NSS–SPO–LS–ŽZK 2008 12,001 0.30% 10th 0 – 2012 940,659 25.16% 1st 1 PS 2014 1,736,920 49.96% 1st 0 BKV 2016 1,823,147 49.71% 1st 0 SP 2020 1,953,998 63.02% 1st 0 ZND 2022 1,635,101 44.27% 1st 0 ZMS 2023 1,783,701 48.07% 1st 0 SNSDS 2026 US
References
External links Official website