Serbian People's Party (2014)

The Serbian People's Party (Serbian: Српска народна партија, romanized: Srpska narodna partija, abbr. SNP) is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Serbia. It was formed in 2014 by former members of the Democratic Party of Serbia and is currently led by Nenad Popović.

Serbian People's Party Српска народна партија
Abbreviation	SNP
President	Nenad Popović
General Secretary	Jovan Palalić
Founded	21 September 2014 (2014-09-21)
Split from	Democratic Party of Serbia
Headquarters	Ustanička 65/5, Belgrade
Ideology	National conservatism Right-wing populism
Political position	Right-wing
Religion	Serbian Orthodox Church
European affiliation	Identity and Democracy Party (cooperation)[1]
Parliamentary group	Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Must Not Stop[2] Healthy Serbia–Russian Party–United Peasant Party[3]
Colours	Red   Blue   Gray
National Assembly	2 / 250
Assembly of Vojvodina	0 / 120
City Assembly of Belgrade	1 / 110
Party flag
Website
srpskanarodnapartija.rs
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History

The SNP was founded in September 2014 in the village of Kriva Reka in the Zlatibor region. Its founding members included Popović, Jovan Palalić, Milan Stamatović (who left the party two years later), and the political philosopher Bogdana Koljević.^[4]

The party's first member of the assembly was Milan Petrić, who had been elected on the list of the Democratic Party in the 2014 election and joined the SNP in March 2015.^[5] The SNP subsequently contested the 2016 election on the Serbian Progressive Party's Aleksandar Vučić – Serbia Is Winning electoral list and elected three members to the assembly: Jovan Palalić, Ognjen Pantović, and Snežana Petrović.

Popović, who has been the SNP's leader since its founding, was appointed to a ministerial position in the first cabinet of Ana Brnabić on 29 June 2017 and served until 2022. In 2024, he was once again appointed as a minister in the cabinet of Miloš Vučević.

Ideology and platform

SNP is a right-wing populist^[6] and a national-conservative party.^[7] On the political spectrum, it sits on the right-wing.^[8] Popović has advocated for a border fence on Serbia's border with North Macedonia to reduce illegal immigration.^[9] He has also opposed allowing LGBTQ content in children's books in Serbia.^[10]

On foreign policy, the party typically favoured improved ties between Serbia and Russia, but it condemned the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, describing it as a violation of Ukrainian territorial integrity.^[11][12][13] The party also opposes Serbian membership in the European Union if it requires concessions on Kosovo.^[7] Popović has expressed opposition to Catalonian independence, comparing the issue to Kosovo.^[14]

SNP has cooperated with Identity and Democracy members, such as National Rally, the Freedom Party of Austria, Alternative for Germany, Vlaams Belang and Lega, as well as with other conservative parties such as Fidesz, Vox, the Slovenian Democratic Party, the U.S. Republican Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

National Assembly of Serbia

Year	Leader	Popular vote	% of popular vote	#	# of seats	Seat change	Coalition	Status	Ref.
2016	Nenad Popović	1,823,147	49.71%	1st	3 / 250	3	SP	Support 2016–17	[20]
								Government 2017–20
2020		1,953,998	63.02%	1st	3 / 250	0	ZND	Government	[21]
2022		1,635,101	44.27%	1st	2 / 250	1	ZMS	Support	[22]
2023		1,783,701	48.07%	1st	2 / 250	0	SNSDS	Government	[23]

Presidential elections

President of Serbia

Year	Candidate	1st round popular vote		% of popular vote	2nd round popular vote		% of popular vote	Notes	Ref.
2017	Aleksandar Vučić	1st	2,012,788	56.01%	—	—	—	Supported Vučić	[24]
2022		1st	2,224,914	60.01%	—	—	—		[25]

References

1. "Patriotism in Serbia with the Serbian People's Party". Identity and Democracy Foundation. 6 May 2024. The Serbian People's Party, to which I belong and which works with the parties in the "Identity and Democracy" bloc
2. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/JOVAN_PALALIC.326.488.html
3. http://www.parlament.gov.rs/LIDIJA_SARAC.1355.488.html
4. "New Serbian centre-right party founded," British Broadcasting Corporation Monitoring European, 24 September 2014 (Source: Blic website, Belgrade, in Serbian 0000 gmt 21 Sep 14).
5. SNP Nenada Popovića postala parlamentarna partija, Politika, 22 March 2015, accessed 9 May 2018.
6. "The state of global right-wing populism in 2019". Quartz. 30 December 2019.
7. Stojić, Marko (2017). Party Responses to the EU in the Western Balkans. Springer. p. 134.
8. Lafleur, Jean-Michel; Vintila, Daniela (2020). "Diaspora Policies, Consular Services and Social Protection for Serbian Citizens Abroad". In Popić, Tamara (ed.). Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond. Vol. 3 (1 ed.). IMISCOE Research Stories. p. 324. ISBN 9783030512415.
9. ""Idea of building border wall is disgraceful"". 18 August 2015.
10. "Serbian Minister Condemns 'Imported Gay Books' | Balkan Insight".
11. "SRPSKA NARODNA PARTIJA: Vodi se agresivna kampanja protiv Rusije i Putina". kurir.rs (in Serbian). Kurir. 10 July 2020.
12. Stevanović, Vojislav (11 April 2016). "SNP i SNS: Kako funkcioniše koalicija?". N1 (in Serbian). Retrieved 7 February 2022.
13. "Palalic "La Serbia cresce, Italia naturale alleata"". Italpress. 10 August 2023.
14. Nenad Popovic [@npopovicSNP] (15 November 2023). "The sovereignty of a state does not, nor it can ever have a price — in Serbia we know that better than anyone! Kosovo is Serbia and Catalonia is Spain!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
15. Vojvodine, Javna medijska ustanova JMU Radio-televizija. "Srpska narodna partija obeležila sedmu godišnjicu postojanja". JMU Radio-televizija Vojvodine (in Serbian (Latin script)). Retrieved 18 November 2023.
16. "Conservative Conference in Belgrade: CPAC's Little Brother". The European Conservative. 11 November 2023.
17. Име* (12 November 2021). "Српска народна партија". Srpskanarodnapartija.rs. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
18. "Поповић и Палалић са Марин Ле Пен и Салвинијем". Politika. 17 September 2023.
19. "An Interview with Jovan Palalić on the Cross-Continental Conservative Congress". The European Conservative. 3 November 2023.
20. Kovačević, Miladin (2016). Izbori za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije [Elections for Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 9. ISBN 978-86-6161-154-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
21. Kovačević, Miladin (2020). Izbori za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije [Elections for Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 9. ISBN 978-86-6161-193-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
22. Kovačević, Miladin (2022). Izbori za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije [Elections for Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 7. ISBN 978-86-6161-221-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
23. Kovačević, Miladin (2024). Izbori za narodne poslanike Narodne skupštine Republike Srbije (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 8–9. ISBN 978-86-6161-252-7. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
24. Kovačević, Miladin (2017). Izbori za predsednika Republike Srbije [Elections for the President of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Beograd: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 9. ISBN 978-86-6161-164-3. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
25. Kovačević, Miladin (2022). Izbori za predsednika Republike Srbije [Elections for the President of the Republic of Serbia] (PDF) (in Serbian). Belgrade: Republički zavod za statistiku. p. 7. ISBN 978-86-6161-220-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.

External links

• Official website