
The Democratic Party (Serbian language: ''Демократска странка'') is a political party in Serbia. It used to be part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, the coalition that deposed Slobodan Milosevic. After the 2003 elections, it became the third largest party in the National Assembly of Serbia, with 34 of 250 seats. It also has 13 seats of 126 in the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro.It ran in an alliance with the ''Civic Alliance of Serbia'' which it accorded 5 seats according to a pre-election deal, ''Democratic Centre (Serbia)'' was also accorded 5 seats and the ''Social Democratic Union (Serbia)'' was accorded one seat, as were the ''Bosniak Democratic Party of Sandzak'' and the ''Social Liberal Party of Sandzak''. After the election the Democratic Centre merged into the Democratic Party. The party is not a part of the minority Government of Serbia (under Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica), which took office in March 2004 after a dispute over whether the new government should accept support of Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia or not. The political orientation of the party is centrist, more or less liberal, but it is affiliated to the Socialist International. After assassination of Zoran Djindjic, Boris Tadic took over as head of the party. In July 2004, he became the President of Serbia. == Policies == The Democratic Party's program states that: * They support parliamentary democracy. * Public administration and public services should be professional and depoliticized. Public service needs to be effective and respectful of its users. * Government institutions should be cheap to maintain. * The government should be checked by independent judiciary and independent media. * They support decentralization of government, both territorially and fuctionally. Powers should be delegated to self-governing bodies whenever possible. Vojvodina should be truly autonomous. * Acts of government should be transparent and monitored by the public. * Participation of the people is essential, but governmental institutions need to be accessible. * They support European integration. * Government needs to ensure conditions in which businesses can operate freely. * They support small and medium businesses, family owned businesses and independent farmers. * There should be no discrimination based on sex, physical appearance, faith, beliefs or location. * They support middle class. * Government needs to invest in education, as well as transportation, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure. * They support Humanitism. * Government should maintain welfare programs. * They encourage creation of unions. == History == === Predecessor Party === The precursor of the Democratic Party was formed in the early 20th century, after a group of primeraly young members seceded from the People's Radical Party (''Narodna radikalna stranka'') and formed the Independent Radical Party (''Samostalna radikalna stranka''). After the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, they merged with various other parties from the kingdom creating the Democratic Party in 1919. The elected president of the party was Ljubomir Davidovic, also a president of the Assembly and a mayor of Belgrade. After his death in 1940, Milan Grol took over the presidency. The Democratic Party won the plurality of votes on the first elections held in 1920, and until 1929 they participated in creation of the government, either independently or in a coalition. In 1929 Alexander_of_Yugoslavia abolished the constitution and created a personal dictatorship, changing the name of the country to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Democratic Party remained in opposition until World War II. Following Yugoslavian occupation by Germany in 1941, most of the party members fled to England. The ones who remained fought either along Chetniks or Yugoslav_National_Liberation_Army. After the war most members returned to Yugoslavia, but the Democratic Party called for a boycott of communist-organized elections in 1945. After the elections the Communist Party banned the Democratic Party and its newspapers ''Democracy'' (''Demokratija''). Until 1948, members were persecuted and many, including Milan Grol, arrested and sentenced to long terms in prison. One of the sentenced individuals was Borislav Pekic. In 1948 the party ceases its operation. === New Party === On December 11, 1989, a group of 13 intellectuals held a press conference in Belgrade where they announced that the Democratic Party is being formed and invited everyone to join the first opposition party in Serbia. The founders were: ::Kosta Cavoski, Milovan Danojlic, Zoran Djindjic, Gojko Djogo, Vladimir Gligorov, Slobodan Inic, Marko Jankovic, Vojislav Kostunica, Dragoljub Micunovic, Borislav Pekic, Miodrag Perisic, Radoslav Stojanovic and Dusan Vukajlovic The founding assembly was held on February 3, 1990, in Dom Omladine in Belgrade. The elected party president was Dragoljub Micunovic and the executive board was presided by Zoran Djindjic. Members participated in the first anti-government protests. In 1990 elections, the party was on ballot in 176 of 250 electoral districts, and won 7 assembly seats. Only several days prior to the elections, a group of 10 members, led by Nikola Milosevic, left the party and formed the Serbian Liberal Party. === Recent events === Democratic Party was one of the founders and most numerous parties of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and its member until the breakup of the coalition. DOS participated in Yugoslavian direct presidential elections in September 2000. Its candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, won the majority of votes. The election committee delayed proclamation of results and called for the second round, which ignited street protests in October 2000. The protests led to official recognition of Koštunica's victory. In December 2000, elections for National Assembly of Serbia were held and DOS won 64.7% of the votes, getting 176 of 250 seats. Zoran Djindjic, the president of Democratic Party at the time, was elected Prime Minister. Relationships within DOS became strained, especially between Democratic Party and Koštunica's Serbian Democratic Party. Eventually, Serbian Democratic Party left the coalition and the government, while criticizing both the coalition and Democratic Party specifically. One of the criticisms was lack of fight against organized crime. To combat this criticism Zoran Djindjic promised year 2003 to be fight against organized crime. Laws were introduced to establish framework. Zoran Đinđić, the president of Democratic Party and the Prime Minister of Serbia was assassinated in March 2003. The assassination destabilized the government. Immediately after assassination state of emergence was declared by interim president Nataša Mićić. The government mounted operation “Sablja” (Sword). This police action was aimed at finding the assassins and was seen as a blow to organized crime. At the end of the operation most of suspects for assassination were arrested. The main suspect, Milorad Ulemek is currently on trial. New prime minister Zoran Zivkovic, also from Democratic Party, attempted to continue reforms in a fashion of his predecessor, but government was given no confidence vote at the end of the year 2003. New elections were scheduled for the end of 2003. Democratic party won 34 seats in the parliament. Democratic party did not enter the newly formed government led by Serbian democratic party. Boris Tadic was elected new president of Democratic party. He was nominated for the Serbian presidential elections in June 2004, and won with 53.7% votes in the second round, while Democratic party was still opposition in the parliament. Cedomir Jovanovic, vice-prime minister in previous government, was ejected from the party for his intention to make independent "Liberal-democrat" faction within DS. He criticized what he saw as Tadić's lenient and tolerant stance toward government which he saw as too conservative and unwilling to cooperate fully with ICTY. Jovanović did not form a new party or joined another one since, although his political views almost coincide to the Civic Alliance of Serbia, a former ally of the Democratic Party. In 2005 the Democratic Centre joined the Democratic Party. ==See also== *List of political parties in Serbia and Montenegro *Liberalism in Serbia and Montenegro ==External links== *[http://www.ds.org.yu/ Official web site] *[http://www.boristadic.org/ Boris Tadić website] Liberal parties Political parties in Serbia
Could someone knowledgeable provide a policy summary? == Recent events == I hope everybody agrees with the changes I made. I generally rephrased most of the things that sounded POV and left out things that go into much detail and really are not concerned with DS itself. We can discuss it here point for point, if you wish, but it seems rather clear to me that the previous version was not NPOV and was making assumptions that yet need to be determined (e.g. that Djindjic was killed by mafia - bare in mind that nobody was sentenced yet, and the people who were accused now also lead one to believe that it had more to do with ICTY. But we need to wait and see, this is not a place to speculate). Hello and thanks for your generous input I do agree with most of your points but some I would like to discus. First Operation Sablja You said: This police action was aimed at finding the assassins and was seen as a blow to organized crime by many OK It is fact that it had impact on crime, crime rate and yes on organized crime. That is not perception but fact so I think that part “by many” is surplus. If you dispute this than there are also statistical data that can clarify things. It was not only intended to find assassins but to destroy organized gang’s. :: It would be rather hard to say everything that needs to be said about Sablja in this article. That's why I left it a bit ambiguous. Regarding who kill him you are quite right. They are not sentenced yet but police investigation is finished and there is clear result who was behind assassination. I do understand that you are uncomfortable to make assumption but I sincerely hope that you will put into article who is the suspect. :: There is always a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. We can certainly mention who is accused of it, but it probably belongs in Zoran Djindjic, and not here, if we want to get more into it. I also think that last sentence was deleted with no reason because it is official stance of DS to have full cooperation with ICTY. :: I thought so, too. But, according to [http://www.b92.net/doc/download/ustav_tadic.zip Tadic's constitution proposal], no citizens of Serbia will be extradited. So, I really don't know what to think about it right now. If somebody can phrase their stand clearly, please do so, I am just not sure at this point how to do it. --User:Dcabrilo 05:26, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC) I leave you choice wether you will act on this comment or not. I am quite pleased with the rest and wish to thank you one more for your help. TRIGOR Thanks a lot fot your help and corrections Just one more point regarding ICTY which I really think you should put back It is truth that according DS constitution proposal Article 59 (citizenship) there is line 3 that says: “Citizen of Serbia cannot be exiled or extradited” but line 4 says: “Surrender of Serbian citizens to international court of justice is not consider extradition in accordance with international rights and law” Because these laws aloud or even encourage extradition to internationally recognized courts law is not against it. In addition there is also law that was enacted by previous administration that regulates extraditions. I do agree that wording is odd. Because 3rd and 4th point are contradictory and because word “surrender” in 3rd paragraph is opened to debate whether it is voluntary or compulsory surrender i.e. arrest but I hope that these arguments are enough to convince you to restore sentence in form that you will chose. If not you can visit www.ds.org.yu and see their policy which you should state. If you believe that it is dubious you may point on some example. Član 59 (Državljanstvo) (1) Lice rođeno na teritoriji Srbije ima pravo na državljanstvo Srbije, ako nema drugo državljanstvo. (2) Državljanin Srbije se ne može lišiti državljanstva niti prava da ga se odrekne. (3) Državljanin Srbije ne može se proterati niti biti izručen. (4) Pod izručenjem se ne podrazumeva predaja državljanina Srbije međunarodnom pravosudnom organu u skladu s međunarodnim pravom i zakonom. ::Sorry for replying late. I think that "compulsory surrender" would be stretching it way beyond an encyclopedic entry. It seems more to be what Kostunica is doing now (not arresting anyone, but if somebody does surrender, he will extradit him). I am not sure if this can be characterized as cooperation with ICTY. The fact is that Tadic's DS has changed a lot, and I am personally not sure what their new stand on this issue is. I looked (quickly) into their new statute, and I couldn't find any reference. Please quote it here if you found it on their website. Thanks! --User:Dcabrilo 06:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::Ok, my bad on that one! I just realized that I translated "predaja" as "surrender", and not as "extradition". They probably wanted it to say "extradition". --User:Dcabrilo 22:22, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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The Democratic Party (Serbian language: ''Демократска странка'') is a political party in Serbia. It used to be part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia, the coalition that deposed Slobodan Milosevic. After the 2003 elections, it became the third largest party in the National Assembly of Serbia, with 34 of 250 seats. It also has 13 seats of 126 in the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro.It ran in an alliance with the ''Civic Alliance of Serbia'' which it accorded 5 seats according to a pre-election deal, ''Democratic Centre (Serbia)'' was also accorded 5 seats and the ''Social Democratic Union (Serbia)'' was accorded one seat, as were the ''Bosniak Democratic Party of Sandzak'' and the ''Social Liberal Party of Sandzak''. After the election the Democratic Centre merged into the Democratic Party. The party is not a part of the minority Government of Serbia (under Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Kostunica), which took office in March 2004 after a dispute over whether the new government should accept support of Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia or not. The political orientation of the party is centrist, more or less liberal, but it is affiliated to the Socialist International. After assassination of Zoran Djindjic, Boris Tadic took over as head of the party. In July 2004, he became the President of Serbia. == Policies == The Democratic Party's program states that: * They support parliamentary democracy. * Public administration and public services should be professional and depoliticized. Public service needs to be effective and respectful of its users. * Government institutions should be cheap to maintain. * The government should be checked by independent judiciary and independent media. * They support decentralization of government, both territorially and fuctionally. Powers should be delegated to self-governing bodies whenever possible. Vojvodina should be truly autonomous. * Acts of government should be transparent and monitored by the public. * Participation of the people is essential, but governmental institutions need to be accessible. * They support European integration. * Government needs to ensure conditions in which businesses can operate freely. * They support small and medium businesses, family owned businesses and independent farmers. * There should be no discrimination based on sex, physical appearance, faith, beliefs or location. * They support middle class. * Government needs to invest in education, as well as transportation, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure. * They support Humanitism. * Government should maintain welfare programs. * They encourage creation of unions. == History == === Predecessor Party === The precursor of the Democratic Party was formed in the early 20th century, after a group of primeraly young members seceded from the People's Radical Party (''Narodna radikalna stranka'') and formed the Independent Radical Party (''Samostalna radikalna stranka''). After the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians, they merged with various other parties from the kingdom creating the Democratic Party in 1919. The elected president of the party was Ljubomir Davidovic, also a president of the Assembly and a mayor of Belgrade. After his death in 1940, Milan Grol took over the presidency. The Democratic Party won the plurality of votes on the first elections held in 1920, and until 1929 they participated in creation of the government, either independently or in a coalition. In 1929 Alexander_of_Yugoslavia abolished the constitution and created a personal dictatorship, changing the name of the country to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The Democratic Party remained in opposition until World War II. Following Yugoslavian occupation by Germany in 1941, most of the party members fled to England. The ones who remained fought either along Chetniks or Yugoslav_National_Liberation_Army. After the war most members returned to Yugoslavia, but the Democratic Party called for a boycott of communist-organized elections in 1945. After the elections the Communist Party banned the Democratic Party and its newspapers ''Democracy'' (''Demokratija''). Until 1948, members were persecuted and many, including Milan Grol, arrested and sentenced to long terms in prison. One of the sentenced individuals was Borislav Pekic. In 1948 the party ceases its operation. === New Party === On December 11, 1989, a group of 13 intellectuals held a press conference in Belgrade where they announced that the Democratic Party is being formed and invited everyone to join the first opposition party in Serbia. The founders were: ::Kosta Cavoski, Milovan Danojlic, Zoran Djindjic, Gojko Djogo, Vladimir Gligorov, Slobodan Inic, Marko Jankovic, Vojislav Kostunica, Dragoljub Micunovic, Borislav Pekic, Miodrag Perisic, Radoslav Stojanovic and Dusan Vukajlovic The founding assembly was held on February 3, 1990, in Dom Omladine in Belgrade. The elected party president was Dragoljub Micunovic and the executive board was presided by Zoran Djindjic. Members participated in the first anti-government protests. In 1990 elections, the party was on ballot in 176 of 250 electoral districts, and won 7 assembly seats. Only several days prior to the elections, a group of 10 members, led by Nikola Milosevic, left the party and formed the Serbian Liberal Party. === Recent events === Democratic Party was one of the founders and most numerous parties of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), and its member until the breakup of the coalition. DOS participated in Yugoslavian direct presidential elections in September 2000. Its candidate, Vojislav Kostunica, won the majority of votes. The election committee delayed proclamation of results and called for the second round, which ignited street protests in October 2000. The protests led to official recognition of Koštunica's victory. In December 2000, elections for National Assembly of Serbia were held and DOS won 64.7% of the votes, getting 176 of 250 seats. Zoran Djindjic, the president of Democratic Party at the time, was elected Prime Minister. Relationships within DOS became strained, especially between Democratic Party and Koštunica's Serbian Democratic Party. Eventually, Serbian Democratic Party left the coalition and the government, while criticizing both the coalition and Democratic Party specifically. One of the criticisms was lack of fight against organized crime. To combat this criticism Zoran Djindjic promised year 2003 to be fight against organized crime. Laws were introduced to establish framework. Zoran Đinđić, the president of Democratic Party and the Prime Minister of Serbia was assassinated in March 2003. The assassination destabilized the government. Immediately after assassination state of emergence was declared by interim president Nataša Mićić. The government mounted operation “Sablja” (Sword). This police action was aimed at finding the assassins and was seen as a blow to organized crime. At the end of the operation most of suspects for assassination were arrested. The main suspect, Milorad Ulemek is currently on trial. New prime minister Zoran Zivkovic, also from Democratic Party, attempted to continue reforms in a fashion of his predecessor, but government was given no confidence vote at the end of the year 2003. New elections were scheduled for the end of 2003. Democratic party won 34 seats in the parliament. Democratic party did not enter the newly formed government led by Serbian democratic party. Boris Tadic was elected new president of Democratic party. He was nominated for the Serbian presidential elections in June 2004, and won with 53.7% votes in the second round, while Democratic party was still opposition in the parliament. Cedomir Jovanovic, vice-prime minister in previous government, was ejected from the party for his intention to make independent "Liberal-democrat" faction within DS. He criticized what he saw as Tadić's lenient and tolerant stance toward government which he saw as too conservative and unwilling to cooperate fully with ICTY. Jovanović did not form a new party or joined another one since, although his political views almost coincide to the Civic Alliance of Serbia, a former ally of the Democratic Party. In 2005 the Democratic Centre joined the Democratic Party. ==See also== *List of political parties in Serbia and Montenegro *Liberalism in Serbia and Montenegro ==External links== *[http://www.ds.org.yu/ Official web site] *[http://www.boristadic.org/ Boris Tadić website] Liberal parties Political parties in Serbia
Democratic Party (Serbia)
Could someone knowledgeable provide a policy summary? == Recent events == I hope everybody agrees with the changes I made. I generally rephrased most of the things that sounded POV and left out things that go into much detail and really are not concerned with DS itself. We can discuss it here point for point, if you wish, but it seems rather clear to me that the previous version was not NPOV and was making assumptions that yet need to be determined (e.g. that Djindjic was killed by mafia - bare in mind that nobody was sentenced yet, and the people who were accused now also lead one to believe that it had more to do with ICTY. But we need to wait and see, this is not a place to speculate). Hello and thanks for your generous input I do agree with most of your points but some I would like to discus. First Operation Sablja You said: This police action was aimed at finding the assassins and was seen as a blow to organized crime by many OK It is fact that it had impact on crime, crime rate and yes on organized crime. That is not perception but fact so I think that part “by many” is surplus. If you dispute this than there are also statistical data that can clarify things. It was not only intended to find assassins but to destroy organized gang’s. :: It would be rather hard to say everything that needs to be said about Sablja in this article. That's why I left it a bit ambiguous. Regarding who kill him you are quite right. They are not sentenced yet but police investigation is finished and there is clear result who was behind assassination. I do understand that you are uncomfortable to make assumption but I sincerely hope that you will put into article who is the suspect. :: There is always a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. We can certainly mention who is accused of it, but it probably belongs in Zoran Djindjic, and not here, if we want to get more into it. I also think that last sentence was deleted with no reason because it is official stance of DS to have full cooperation with ICTY. :: I thought so, too. But, according to [http://www.b92.net/doc/download/ustav_tadic.zip Tadic's constitution proposal], no citizens of Serbia will be extradited. So, I really don't know what to think about it right now. If somebody can phrase their stand clearly, please do so, I am just not sure at this point how to do it. --User:Dcabrilo 05:26, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC) I leave you choice wether you will act on this comment or not. I am quite pleased with the rest and wish to thank you one more for your help. TRIGOR Thanks a lot fot your help and corrections Just one more point regarding ICTY which I really think you should put back It is truth that according DS constitution proposal Article 59 (citizenship) there is line 3 that says: “Citizen of Serbia cannot be exiled or extradited” but line 4 says: “Surrender of Serbian citizens to international court of justice is not consider extradition in accordance with international rights and law” Because these laws aloud or even encourage extradition to internationally recognized courts law is not against it. In addition there is also law that was enacted by previous administration that regulates extraditions. I do agree that wording is odd. Because 3rd and 4th point are contradictory and because word “surrender” in 3rd paragraph is opened to debate whether it is voluntary or compulsory surrender i.e. arrest but I hope that these arguments are enough to convince you to restore sentence in form that you will chose. If not you can visit www.ds.org.yu and see their policy which you should state. If you believe that it is dubious you may point on some example. Član 59 (Državljanstvo) (1) Lice rođeno na teritoriji Srbije ima pravo na državljanstvo Srbije, ako nema drugo državljanstvo. (2) Državljanin Srbije se ne može lišiti državljanstva niti prava da ga se odrekne. (3) Državljanin Srbije ne može se proterati niti biti izručen. (4) Pod izručenjem se ne podrazumeva predaja državljanina Srbije međunarodnom pravosudnom organu u skladu s međunarodnim pravom i zakonom. ::Sorry for replying late. I think that "compulsory surrender" would be stretching it way beyond an encyclopedic entry. It seems more to be what Kostunica is doing now (not arresting anyone, but if somebody does surrender, he will extradit him). I am not sure if this can be characterized as cooperation with ICTY. The fact is that Tadic's DS has changed a lot, and I am personally not sure what their new stand on this issue is. I looked (quickly) into their new statute, and I couldn't find any reference. Please quote it here if you found it on their website. Thanks! --User:Dcabrilo 06:13, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC) :::Ok, my bad on that one! I just realized that I translated "predaja" as "surrender", and not as "extradition". They probably wanted it to say "extradition". --User:Dcabrilo 22:22, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
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