Democratic Opposition of Serbia

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:Infobox political party The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (Template:Lang-sr-cyrl, abbr. DOS) was a wide electoral alliance of political parties in Serbia, intent on ousting the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milošević.<ref name=dos/><ref>Vreme: Demokratska opozicija Srbije - Program za demokratsku Srbiju Template:Webarchive, No. 502, 19 August 2000 Template:In lang</ref>

History

Its presidential candidate, Vojislav Koštunica, defeated Milošević in the 2000 general election, while the DOS secured a majority of seats in the National Assembly.<ref name=dos/> The coalition was able to form a government and selected Zoran Đinđić for Prime Minister.<ref name="dos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} (in Serbian)</ref>

Koštunica's Democratic Party of Serbia left the coalition government in July 2001, in protest of the governments decision to extradite Slobodan Milošević to the ICTY, and officially left the coalition in July next year. Social Democracy was pushed into the opposition in May 2001 after a split in the party, as the faction which was eventually recognized by the Supreme Court of Serbia as the legitimate name bearer, was not regarded as such by the DOS, which transferred all the positions held by the party members to the other faction's adherents. That faction, having not received the legal recognition, had merged in July 2002 with the Social Democratic Union into the Social Democratic Party.

In March 2003, after a split in this party, the Social Democratic Union was renewed, still being a member of the DOS, while the Social Democratic Party was excluded from the coalition in November 2003, after having announced that it would support the opposition's demand for government's depose. In May 2003, New Serbia was excluded from the coalition after a series of conflicts with the other members. In 2003, New Democracy was renamed into the Liberals of Serbia, and the Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions founded the Labour Party of Serbia, to which it transferred its membership in the DOS.<ref name="dos" />

Dragoljub Mićunović, the DOS candidate, performed poorly in the 2003 presidential election and was even beaten by 11% by Tomislav Nikolić, candidate of the ultranationalist Serbian Radical Party. Since only 38% of the electors voted, the presidential election was cancelled for the third time in a row. Therefore, the DOS was disbanded on 18 November 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The disbanding was mostly decided by the Democratic Party, the party founded by the then Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, who was later assassinated on 12 March 2003.<ref name=dos/>

Member parties

Name		Leader	Ideology	Political position
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	Democratic Party Template:Small	Zoran Đinđić	Social liberalism Pro-Europeanism	Center
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	Democratic Party of Serbia Template:Small	Vojislav Koštunica	Conservatism Pro-Europeanism	Center-right
	G17 Plus Template:Small	Miroljub Labus	Liberal conservatism Pro-Europeanism	Center-right<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
	Social Democracy Template:Small	Vuk Obradović	Social democracy Pro-Europeanism	Center-left
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	Civic Alliance of Serbia Template:Small	Goran Svilanović	Liberalism<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Social liberalism	Center
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	Christian Democratic Party of Serbia Template:Small	Vladan Batić	Christian democracy Pro-Europeanism	Centre
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	New Serbia Template:Small	Velimir Ilić	Christian democracy Monarchism	Right-wing<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Movement for a Democratic Serbia Template:Small	Momčilo Perišić	Serbian nationalism Conservatism	Right-wing
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina Template:Small	Nenad Čanak	Social democracy Pro-Europeanism	Center-left
	Reformists of Vojvodina Template:Small	Miodrag Isakov	Social democracy Regionalism	Center-left
style="background-color:Template:Party color; color:white;"|	Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians Template:Small	József Kasza	Hungarian minority interests Liberal conservatism	Center-right
	Democratic Alternative Template:Small	Nebojša Čović	Social democracy Democratic socialism	Center-left
	Democratic Centre Template:Small	Dragoljub Mićunović	Social liberalism Social democracy	Center to center-left
	New Democracy Template:Small	Dušan Mihajlović	Liberalism Atlanticism	Center
	Social Democratic Union Template:Small	Žarko Korać	Social democracy<ref name="serbia">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref> Democratic socialism	Center-left to left-wing
	People's Peasant Party Template:Small	Dragan Veselinov	Vojvodina autonomism Agrarianism<ref name="FitchSolutions">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Center-right
	Sandžak Democratic Party Template:Small	Rasim Ljajić	Bosniak minority interests Social conservatism	Center-right
	League for Šumadija Template:Small	Branislav Kovačević	Šumadija autonomism Pro-Europeanism	Center to center-left
	Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions Template:Small	Dragan Milovanović	Syndicalism Democratic socialism	Left-wing
	Otpor Template:Small	Srđa Popović	Social liberalism Atlanticism	Center

Electoral results

FR Yugoslavia

Chamber of Citizens

Year	Votes	Percentage	Seats	Ballot carrier	Control
2000	2,040,646	45.00%	Template:Composition bar	Vojislav Koštunica	Template:Yes

President

Year	Candidate	#	1st round votes	% of vote	#	2nd round votes	% of vote
2000	Vojislav Koštunica	Template:Yes	check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	Template:N/a	check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}	check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}

Republic of Serbia

National Assembly

Year	Popular vote	% of popular vote	Seats	Ballot carrier	Control
2000	2,402,387	64.09%	Template:Composition bar	Zoran Đinđić	Template:Yes

President

Year	Candidate	#	1st round vote	% of vote	#	2nd round vote	% of vote
2002Template:Efn	Miroljub Labus	Template:No	995,200	27.92	Template:No	921.094	31.62%
2003Template:Efn	Dragoljub Mićunović	Template:No	893,906	35.42	Template:N/a	—	—

Positions held

Major positions held by Democratic Opposition of Serbia members:

President of FR Yugoslavia	Party	Years
Vojislav Koštunica	Democratic Party of Serbia	2000–2002
President of the Chamber of Citizens of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia	Party	Years
Dragoljub Mićunović	Democratic Centre	2000–2003
Prime Minister of Serbia	Party	Years
Zoran Đinđić	Democratic Party	2001–2003
Zoran Živković	Democratic Party	2003
President of the National Assembly of Serbia	Party	Years
Dragan Maršićanin	Democratic Party of Serbia	check|unknown=|preview=Page using Template:Center with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y| 1 | style }}
Nataša Mićić	Civic Alliance of Serbia	2001–2003
Chairmen of the Executive Council of Vojvodina	Party	Years
Đorđe Đukić	Democratic Party	2000–2004
President of the Assembly of Vojvodina	Party	Years
Nenad Čanak	League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina	2000–2003
Mayor of Belgrade	Party	Years
Milan St. Protić	New Serbia	2000–2001
Radmila Hrustanović	Civic Alliance of Serbia	2001–2003
Governor of the National Bank of Yugoslavia	Party	Years
Mlađan Dinkić	G17 Plus	2000–2003

See also

• Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević