Civic Alliance of Serbia

Civic Alliance of Serbia

*Грађански савез Србије*
Civic Alliance of Serbia Грађански савез Србије
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Leader	Vesna Pešić ; Goran Svilanović ; Nataša Mićić
Founded	February 28, 1992
Dissolved	April 7, 2007
Merged into	Liberal Democratic Party
Ideology	Liberalism; Social liberalism; Pro-Europeanism; Atlanticism; Anti-nationalism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR)
	Politics of Serbia; Political parties; Elections;

The Civic Alliance of Serbia (Serbian Cyrillic: Грађански савез Србије, romanized: Građanski savez Srbije, GSS) was a social liberal and pro-european political party in Serbia.

History

Known widely by its three-letter acronym in Serbian, GSS was founded and registered in 1992.

In the 1992 election, the party was represented by Ratomir Tanić.^[2]

Following the election, the Republican Club led by Nebojša Popov and the Reform Party of Serbia led by Vesna Pešić (Serbian successor to Ante Marković's SFR Yugoslavia-wide Union of Reform Forces party) merged into the party. Both had went in coalition with the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina.

In 1996 Žarko Korać left the GSS with a group of dissidents who opposed forming coalition with the right-wing Serbian Renewal Movement for the 1996 federal election and formed the Social Democratic Union (SDU).^[3]

Notable members over the years included Goran Svilanović, former Foreign Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Nataša Mićić, former parliamentary president and acting president of Serbia, Gašo Knezević, former Serbian Minister of Education, and Vesna Pešić, the party founder and longtime leader.

The future of the party had been in doubt ever since it split into two wings. One part promoted a merger with Democratic Party, while the other part wanted to continue political existence as an independent party. The December 2004 party congress upheld the decision to remain an independent party and elected Nataša Mićić as the new leader. The party decided to apply for membership of the ELDR and the Liberal International. At its May 2004 council, ELDR, accepted GSS as an affiliate member.

However, GSS merged into Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on April 7, 2007. The party had three representatives in the National Assembly of Serbia in 2007 elected from the list of the LDP.

Presidents of the Civic Alliance of Serbia (1992–2007)

#	President	Born-Died	Term start	Term end
style="background:Template:Civic Alliance of Serbia/meta/color; color:white;" \| 1	Vesna Pešić	1940–	28 February 1992	1 August 1999
style="background:Template:Civic Alliance of Serbia/meta/color; color:white;" \| 2	Goran Svilanović	1963–	1 August 1999	12 December 2004
style="background:Template:Civic Alliance of Serbia/meta/color; color:white;" \| 3	Nataša Mićić	1965–	12 December 2004	7 April 2007

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

Year	Popular vote	% of popular vote	# of seats	Seat change	Coalitions	Status
1992	17,276	0.37%	0 / 250			no seats
1993	715,564	16.64%	1 / 250	1	DEPOS	opposition
1997	Election boycott		0 / 250	1		no seats
2000	2,402,387	64.09%	9 / 250	9	DOS	government
2003	481,249	12.58%	2 / 250	7	With DS–DC–SDU–LZS	opposition
2007	214,262	5.31%	3 / 250	1	With LDP–SDU–LSV–DHSS	opposition

Positions held

Major positions held by Civic Alliance of Serbia members:

President of the National Assembly of Serbia	Years
Nataša Mićić	2001–2004
Mayor of Belgrade	Years
Radmila Hrustanović	2001–2004

References

^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2007). "Serbia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ Fischer, Jeffrey; Finn, Daniel; Carlson, Jeffrey (1997). Republic of Serbia: pre-election technical assessment. International Foundation for Electoral Systems. p. 91.
^ Milošević, Milan (2000). Politički vodič kroz Srbiju 2000. Belgrade: Medija centar. p. 101. ISBN 86-82827-13-1. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

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[1] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2007). "Serbia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 13 December 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

[2] Fischer, Jeffrey; Finn, Daniel; Carlson, Jeffrey (1997). Republic of Serbia: pre-election technical assessment. International Foundation for Electoral Systems. p. 91.

[3] Milošević, Milan (2000). Politički vodič kroz Srbiju 2000. Belgrade: Medija centar. p. 101. ISBN 86-82827-13-1. Retrieved 21 April 2019.

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