The Democratic Party (Serbian Cyrillic: Демократска странка, romanized: Demokratska stranka; listen (help·info), DS) is a social democratic political party in Serbia. Zoran Lutovac has led the party as its president since 2018. DS was founded in 1990 by a group of intellectuals who sought to revive the Democratic Party, which was active in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Under its first president, Dragoljub Mićunović, DS gained representation in the National Assembly of Serbia in 1990, participated in the March 1991 protests in Belgrade, boycotted the May 1992 Yugoslav parliamentary election, and declined to join the opposition Democratic Movement of Serbia (DEPOS) coalition. In 1992, a group of members led by Vojislav Koštunica, who were dissatisfied with the decision not to join DEPOS, split and formed the Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS). Under, Zoran Đinđić, who gained control in 1993, DS won 29 seats in the 1993 parliamentary election. He was officially elected president of DS in January 1994. Đinđić reorganised DS, led the party into the Together coalition, and took part in the 1996–1997 protests, which occurred after the Electoral Commission invalidated local election results in cities in which the Together coalition had won. DS boycotted the 1997 general election and formed the Alliance for Change a year later, which became part of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) in January 2000. DOS won the 2000 Yugoslav general election, but Slobodan Milošević, the president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and president of the Socialist Party of Serbia (SPS), declined to accept the results, culminating in his overthrow. More information...
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