Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia, 1989)

Short description: Political party in Serbia

Liberal Democratic Party

Либерално демократска странка
Liberalno demokratska stranka

Former name| Liberal Party
Abbreviation| LS (until 1997)
LDS (after 1997)
President|

* Aleksandar Stefanović (born 1953) (sr)
* (1989–1990)
* Predrag Vuletić
* (1990–2010)

Founded| 14 December 1989 (1989-12-14)
Registered| 4 January 1994 (1994-01-04)
Dissolved| 2010
Headquarters| Pantićeva 70, Valjevo
Ideology|

* Monarchism
* Regionalism
* Anti-communism

Political position| Syncretic
Colours|  Orange
Website

* lds-serbia.org.yu (archived)
* lds-serbia.org.rs (archived)

The Liberal Democratic Party (Serbian: Либерално демократска странка, romanized: Liberalno demokratska stranka, abbr. LDS), known as the Liberal Party (Serbian: Либерална странка, romanized: Liberalna stranka, abbr. LS) until 1997, was a political party in Serbia. Founded in 1989, its first president was Aleksandar Stefanović (born 1953) (sr). Stefanović left LS to join Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Chetnik Movement in June 1990. He was then succeeded Predrag Vuletić, who ran as a perennial candidate in elections up till 1997.

LDS did not take part in elections after 1997 but it remained active until 2010, when the party was de-registered from the registry of political parties due to the implementation of a new law.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Ideology and platform
* 3 Organisation
* 3.1 International cooperation
* 3.2 List of presidents
* 4 Electoral performance
* 4.1 Parliamentary elections
* 4.2 Presidential elections
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

The Liberal Party (LS) was founded on 14 December 1989 in Valjevo by former members of the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Serbia.[1][2][3]: 58 Its founders included Aleksandar Stefanović (born 1953) (sr), who was its first president, Predrag Vuletić, Slaven Batoćanin, and Milan Ulm.[3]: 58 [4] LS declared itself to be the successor of the 19th century Liberal Party.[4]

Stefanović defected to Vojislav Šešelj's Serbian Chetnik Movement once it was formed in June 1990.[3]: 58 Stefanović was then succeeded by Vuletić.[3]: 58 LS was one of the organisers of the opposition protest in June 1990 in Belgrade.[5] Vuletić was a presidential candidate in the 1990 general election, winning 5,019 votes in total.[6] LS later took part in the 1992,[7]: 122 1993,[7]: 125 and 1997 parliamentary elections.[7]: 129 LS was a minor member of the Democratic Movement of Serbia coalition.[4]

LS changed its name to Liberal Democratic Party (LDS) on 15 February 1997.[4][8][9] Slobodan Ikonić of NIN stated in September 1997 that Vuletić did not publish his electoral programme for the September 1997 presidential election.[10] LDS then took part in the Alliance for Change and Democratic Opposition of Serbia coalitions.[4] In 1999, they organised anti-government protests in Valjevo.[11]

Аfter Čedomir Jovanović formed the Liberal Democratic Faction inside the Democratic Party in 2004, Vuletić objected to the registration of Jovanović's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) due to its similar name in English.[12] Vuletić offered Jovanović to take over the LDS leadership only if he would support the restoration of Serbian monarchy in return; Vuletić told the Glas javnosti newspaper in 2005 that Jovanović did not respond to his proposal.[12] Vuletić submitted a request to the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in November 2005 to reject LDP from being registered; LDP was eventually registered.[13][14]

After the new system was adopted in 2010, LDS was deregistered as a political party and ceased to exist. In 2011, Vuletić joined the New Serbia.[15]

## Ideology and platform

LS is listed in the Europa World Year Book as an economically liberal party.[1] Author Robert Thomas described LS as a hybrid party, stating that Stefanović wrote a book that praised Draža Mihailović, the leader of Chetniks during World War II, but also portrayed LS as "a party of the European left".[3]: 58 LDS was anti-communist and it supported the rehabilitation of Draža Mihailović.[4][15] It also supported the restoration of Serbian monarchy.[4] According to its programme, LDS supported regionalism, privatisation, environmentalism, lustration of former members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and accession of Serbia to the European Union and NATO.[16]

## Organisation

LDS only had two presidents during its existence, this being Stefanović and Vuletić.[3]: 58 According to its website from 2004, Vesna Prodanova and Slobodan Jončić served as vice-presidents of the party.[17] By 2009, LDS had chapters in 50 municipalities.[18] It was registered as a political party on 4 January 1994.[4]

Its headquarters was at Pantićeva 70 in Valjevo and Njegoševa 1 in Belgrade.[1][16] In 2000, its headquarters in Belgrade was moved to Mutapova 12.[4][19] By November 2005, however, Glas javnosti reported that their headquarters in Belgrade were closed.[12] Its headquarters in Valjevo have been occupied by LDP.

### International cooperation

LDS had ambitions to join the Liberal International.[12]

### List of presidents

President  | Birth–Death  | Term start  | Term end

|
|
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1  |  | Aleksandar Stefanović (born 1953) (sr) | 1953– | 14 December 1989 | 18 June 1990
2  |  | Predrag Vuletić | 1952– | 18 June 1990 | 2010

## Electoral performance

### Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia  Year  | Leader  | Popular vote  | % of popular vote  | # of seats  | Seat change  | Coalition  | Status  | Ref.

|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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1990  | Predrag Vuletić  | 7,325  | 0.15%  |  22nd  |

0 / 250

|  0  | –  | Extra-parliamentary  | [20]
1992  | 632  | 0.01%  |  46th  |

0 / 250

|  0  | –  | Extra-parliamentary  | [21]
1993  | 275  | 0.01%  |  42nd  |

0 / 250

|  0  | –  | Extra-parliamentary  | [22]
1997  | 503  | 0.01%  |  44th  |

0 / 250

|  0  | –  | Extra-parliamentary  | [23]

### Presidential elections

President of Serbia  Year  | Candidate  | 1st round popular vote  | % of popular vote  | 2nd round popular vote  | % of popular vote  | Ref.

|
|
|
|
|
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1990  | Predrag Vuletić  | 21st  | 5,109  | 0.10%  | N/A  | — | — | [20]
1992  | Did not participate | –
Sep 1997  | Predrag Vuletić  | 11th  | 11,463  | 0.29%  | N/A  | — | — | [24]
Dec 1997  | 7th  | 21,353  | 0.57%  | N/A  | — | — | [25]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Maher, Joanne (2004). The Europa World Year Book 2004: Kazakhstan–Zimbabwe. 2 (45 ed.). London: Taylor & Francis. p. 3716. ISBN 9781857432558.
2. ↑ Stefanović, Nenad Lj. (1990). "Vreme". pp. 27. ISSN 0353-8028. OCLC 24236314.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Thomas, Robert (1998). Serbia Under Milošević: Politics in the 1990s (2 ed.). London: C. Hurst & Co.. ISBN 9781850653677. OCLC 1280730017.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 "Istorijat Liberalno-demokratske stranke". July 2003. http://www.lds-serbia.org.yu/onama.html.
5. ↑ "Prvi miting opozicije u Beogradu" (in sr). 12 June 2020. http://beogradskikalendar.com/prvi-miting-opozicije-u-beogradu.
6. ↑ "Predsednički izbori 1990. godine" (in sr). Vreme. 1 March 2017. https://www.vreme.com/vreme/predsednicki-izbori-1990-godine/.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Mihailović, Srećko (2007) (in sr). Oko izbora 15: Parlamentarni izbori u Republici Srbiji 21. januara 2007.. Belgrade: CeSID. ISBN 9788683491438. OCLC 706852021.
8. ↑ Cani, B. (6 December 1997). "Srbija bira predsednika, drugi put ove godine" (in sr). Naša borba. http://www.yurope.com/nasa-borba/arhiva/Dec97/0612/0612_3.HTM.
9. ↑ Mihailović, Srećko (2008) (in sr). Oko izbora 16: Predsednički izbori 20. januara i 3. februara 2008. godine. Belgrade: CeSID. pp. 98. ISBN 9788683491469. OCLC 823319307.
10. ↑ Ikonić, Slobodan (12 September 1997). "Predsednički kandidati: Šta ko nudi" (in sr). NIN. https://www.nin.co.rs/arhiva/2437/3.html.
11. ↑ "Nastavljeni protesti u Valjevu i Kragujevcu" (in sr). 9 February 1999. https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=1999&mm=09&dd=02&nav_category=1&nav_id=1748.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "Vuletić: Nudio sam Čedi stranku" (in sr). Glas javnosti. 3 November 2005. https://arhiva.glas-javnosti.rs/arhiva/2005/11/03/srpski/P05110203.shtml.
13. ↑ "Dopis Liberalno-demokratske stranke Ministarstvu za državnu upravu Srbije" (in sr). RTV Marš Valjevo. 3 November 2005. https://marsh.rs/2005/11/03/dopis-liberalno-demokratske-stranke-ministarstvu-za-drzavnu-upravu-srbije/.
14. ↑ "Osnovan LDP" (in sr). 11 May 2005. https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2005&mm=11&dd=05&nav_category=11&nav_id=179798.
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Lider Liberalne stranke Predrag Vuletić postao član NS" (in sr). 6 July 2011. https://www.blic.rs/vesti/politika/lider-liberalne-stranke-predrag-vuletic-postao-clan-ns/mh8gd2s.
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Programski ciljevi LDS" (in sr). http://www.lds-serbia.org.yu/progcilj.html.
17. ↑ "Rukovodstvo LDS-a" (in sr). http://www.lds-serbia.org.yu/rukovodstvo.html.
18. ↑ "Odbori" (in sr). http://www.lds-serbia.org.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=179&lang=lat.
19. ↑ "Kontakt" (in sr). http://www.lds-serbia.org.rs/index.php?option=com_qcontacts&view=contact&id=1&Itemid=181&lang=lat.
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Konačni rezultati izbora za predsednika republike i narodne poslanike" (in sr). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. January 1991. p. 3–6. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/poslanici/1990/3. - 1990 publikacija rzs.compressed.pdf.
21. ↑ "Konačni rezultati prevremenih izbora za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije" (in sr). Belgrade. February 1993. p. 12. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/poslanici/1992/publikacija 1992 np rzs compress.pdf.
22. ↑ "Konačni rezultati prevremenih izbora za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije" (in sr). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. January 1994. p. 13. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/poslanici/1993/1993 publikacija.pdf.
23. ↑ "Konačni rezultati izbora za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije" (in sr). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. November 1997. p. 13. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/poslanici/1997/1997 Publikacija statistike np.pdf.
24. ↑ "Konačni rezultati izbora za predsednika Republike Srbije" (in sr). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. February 1998. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/predsednik/1997 I/4. - 1997 I publikacija rzs.compressed.pdf.
25. ↑ "Konačni rezultati izbora za predsednika Republike Srbije" (in sr). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. February 1998. http://arhiva.rik.parlament.gov.rs/doc/arhiva/predsednik/1997 I/4. - 1997 I publikacija rzs.compressed.pdf.

## External links

* Official website (Yugoslav domain)
* Official website (Serbian domain)

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