Liberal Democratic Party (Serbia 2005)

Liberal Democratic Party Либерално-демократска партија Liberalno-demokratska partija
Leader	Čedomir Jovanović
Founded	2005
Split from	Democratic Party
Headquarters	Simina 41, Belgrade
Ideology	Social Liberalism
International affiliation	Liberal International
European affiliation	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
Official colours	Red
National Assembly of Serbia	11 / 250
Website
www.ldp.rs
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The Liberal Democratic Party (Serbian: Либерално-демократска партија, Liberalno-demokratska partija) is a liberal political party in Serbia.

History

It was founded on 5 November, 2005 by a faction of the Democratic Party after their leader, former Deputy Prime Minister Čedomir Jovanović had been expelled in a party purge. The party was represented in the Assembly after Đorđe Đukić defected from the Democratic Party to the Liberal Democratic Party. Members of the foundation board were: Nenad Prokić, Nikola Samardžić, Bransilav Lečić and Đorđe Đukić. The party also reached a coalition agreement for the 2007 parliamentary election with the Civic Alliance of Serbia, League of Vojvodina Social Democrats and the Social Democratic Union.

The Civic Alliance of Serbia merged into the LDP in 2007 after long announcements, increasing the number of LDP's seats in the parliament from 6 to 9.

Jovanovic has repeatedly offered Tadic a hand in forming a new government after the 2008 elections, providing the DS change its policy on Kosovo, in recognising Kosovo as an independent state.

Election results

In the 21 January 2007 parliamentary election in Serbia, the Liberal Democratic Party ran in a coalition with the Civic Alliance of Serbia, the Social Democratic Union and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina that won 15 seats with 5.3% of total vote. LDP itself got 6 seats and included GSS, SDU and DHSS on its parliamentary club.

On December 2, 2007 the party board decided to present Čedomir Jovanović as a candidate for the Serbian presidential election, 2008. He ended up in the 5th place, winning 5.34% of the votes.

Liberal Democratic Party participated in Serbian parliamentary and local elections, which were held on May 11, 2008. It won 5.2% of the votes and 13 seats in the Serbian Parliament.

See also

• Liberalism
• Contributions to liberal theory
• Liberalism worldwide
• List of liberal parties
• Liberal democracy
• Liberalism in Serbia

References

http://www.ldp.rs/o_nama/programski_savet/savet_za_obrazovanje_i_nauku/dokumenti_saveta_za_obrazovanje_i_nauku/politika_ldp-a_u_oblasti_obrazovanja.1037.html

See also

• List of Serbian parliamentary opposition leaders

External links

• Official site