Serb Democratic Party (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox political party The Serb Democratic Party (Template:Langx or СДС/SDS) is a Serb political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its current leader is Milan Miličević.
In the parliamentary elections of October 2006, the SDS lost its status as the leading party in Republika Srpska and the main Serb party in Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), led by the president of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Despite making minor gains in the 2010 and 2014 elections, by 2018 the party had fallen to below 20% of the parliament, the lowest seat standing in its history.
The party is under sanctions from the United States for "failing to arrest and turn over war crimes suspects to an international tribunal." The sanctions prohibit any transfer of funds and material from the United States to the SDS and vice versa.<ref>[1] Template:Webarchive</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The party is on the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons by the Office of Foreign Assets Control U.S. agency.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
EstablishmentEdit
Radovan Karadžić founded the Serb Democratic Party in 1990. The party aimed at unifying the Bosnian Serb community, as Jovan Rašković's Serb Democratic Party did with the Serbs in Croatia, and staying part of Yugoslavia (as the "Third Yugoslavia" with Serbia and Montenegro) in the event of secession by those two republics from the federation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1991Edit
Throughout September 1991, the SDS began to establish various "Serb Autonomous Regions" throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. After the Bosnian parliament voted on sovereignty on 15 October 1991, a separate Serb Assembly was founded on 24 October 1991 in Banja Luka, in order to exclusively represent the Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The following month, Bosnian Serbs held a referendum which resulted in an overwhelming vote in favor of staying in a federal state with Serbia and Montenegro, as part of Yugoslavia. In December 1991, a top-secret document entitled ‘For the organization and activity of organs of the Serbs people in Bosnia-Herzegovina in extraordinary circumstances’ was drawn up by the SDS leadership. This was a centralized program for the takeover of each municipality in the country, through the creation of shadow governments and para-governmental structures through various "crisis headquarters", and by preparing loyal Serbs for the takeover in co-ordination with the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
IdeologyEdit
Historically, the party had a strong ultranationalist,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> separatist<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Nordsieck" /> and Islamophobic ideologyTemplate:Cn. Recently, the party switched from far-right and adopted more moderate conservative views, with some of those views even going in favor of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole, and not just Republika Srpska, with perhaps one of the greatest promoters of that approach is Dragan Mektić, one of the party's high-ranking officials.
List of presidentsEdit
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Electoral resultsEdit
Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and HerzegovinaEdit
| Year | Leader | Popular vote | % | # of seats | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Radovan Karadžić | 590,431 | 26.14 | Template:Composition bar | Template:Yes2 |
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National Assembly of Republika SrpskaEdit
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Presidential electionsEdit
| Election year | # | Candidate | Votes | % | Note | Elected? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Template:Nochange 1st | Momčilo Krajišnik | 690,646 | 67.3% | — | Template:Yes |
| 1998 | Template:Decrease 2nd | Momčilo Krajišnik | 314,236 | 44.7% | — | Template:No |
| 2002 | Template:Increase 1st | Mirko Šarović | 180,212 | 35.5% | — | Template:Yes |
| 2006 | Template:Decrease 2nd | Mladen Bosić | 130,824 | 24.2% | — | Template:No |
| 2010 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Mladen Ivanić | 285,951 | 47.31% | Support | Template:No |
| 2014 | Template:Increase 1st | Mladen Ivanić | 318,196 | 48.71% | Support | Template:Yes |
| 2018 | Template:Decrease 2nd | Mladen Ivanić | 292,065 | 42.74% | Support | Template:No |
| 2022 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Mirko Šarović | 224,912 | 35.45% | — | Template:No |
| Election year | # | Candidate | Votes | % | Note | Elected? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Template:Nochange 1st | Biljana Plavšić | 636.654 | 59.2% | — | Template:Yes |
| 1998 | Template:Nochange 1st | Nikola Poplašen | 322,684 | 43.9% | Support | Template:Yes |
| 2000 | Template:Nochange 1st | Mirko Šarović | 313,572 | 49.8% | — | Template:Yes |
| 2002 | Template:Nochange 1st | Dragan Čavić | 183,121 | 35.9% | — | Template:Yes |
| 2006 | Template:Decrease 2nd | Dragan Čavić | 163,041 | 29.4% | — | Template:No |
| 2007 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Ognjen Tadić | 142,898 | 33.8% | — | Template:No |
| 2010 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Ognjen Tadić | 227,239 | 35.92% | — | Template:No |
| 2014 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Ognjen Tadić | 296,021 | 44.28% | — | Template:No |
| 2018 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Vukota Govedarica | 284,140 | 41.81% | — | Template:No |
| 2022 | Template:Nochange 2nd | Jelena Trivić | 273,245 | 42.84% | Support | Template:No |
Positions heldEdit
Major positions held by Serb Democratic Party members:
| Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Years |
|---|---|
| Momčilo Krajišnik | 1996–1998 |
| Mirko Šarović | 2002–2003 |
| Borislav Paravac | 2003–2006 |
| Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Years |
| Boro Bosić | 1997–1999 |
| Spasoje Tuševljak | 2000 |
| President of Republika Srpska | Years |
| Radovan Karadžić | 1992–1996 |
| Biljana Plavšić | 1996–1998 |
| Mirko Šarović | 2000–2002 |
| Dragan Čavić | 2002–2006 |
| Prime Minister of Republika Srpska | Years |
| Branko Đerić | 1992–1993 |
| Vladimir Lukić | 1993–1994 |
| Dušan Kozić | 1994–1995 |
| Rajko Kasagić | 1995–1996 |
| Gojko Kličković | 1996–1998 |
| Pero Bukejlović | 2005–2006 |
| President of Republika Srpska National Assembly | Years |
| Momčilo Krajišnik | 1992–1996 |
| Dragan Kalinić | 1996–1998 2000–2004 |
| Dušan Stojičić | 2004–2006 |
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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