People's Concord of Montenegro or Popular Unity of Montenegro ( cnr, Narodna sloga Crne Gore / Народна слога Црне Горе, ''NSCG'') was a minor centrist political party in Montenegro. Its founder and president was Montenegrin activist

Novak Kilibarda Novak Kilibarda, PhD ( cyrl, Новак Килибарда; born 7 January 1934) is a Montenegrin former politician, professor, literary historian and writer. Early life and education Kilibarda was born on 7 January 1934 in the village of Tupan ...

. It was created after Novak Kilibarda, president of the notable

People's Party of Montenegro The People's Party ( sr, Народна странка, Narodna Stranka, abbr. НС/NS) was a conservative political party in Montenegro. History The party was established in 1990, after a multi-party system was introduced in Montenegro, and was ...

, abandoned the main pursuits and the political ideology and created a small, his own, party. It was named to emulate national unity of the Montenegrins and the " Popular Unity" coalition that Kilibarda headed between the

and the

Liberal Alliance of Montenegro Liberal Alliance of Montenegro ( cnr, italic=no, Liberalni savez Crne Gore - LSCG; Либерални савез Црне Горе - ЛСЦГ) was a Montenegrin separatist, liberal and anti-war political party, active between 1990 and 2005. The ...

. The main difference is that the People's Party, which was in the

Victory is of Montenegro The European Montenegro ( cnr, Европскa Црна Горa, script=Cyrl, cnr, Evropska Crna Gora, label=none, script=Latn; abbr. ECG) was the ruling political alliance in Montenegro headed by Milo Đukanović's Democratic Party of Socialists ...

coalition under

Milo Đukanović Milo Đukanović ( cnr, Мило Ђукановић, ; born 15 February 1962) is a Montenegrin politician serving as the President of Montenegro since 2018, previously serving in the role from 1998 to 2003. He also served as the Prime Minister o ...

, Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p. 1372. decided to go back into the opposition because of the problems that came out regarding proposals of an independent Montenegro - NS CG was strictly pro-Serbian. President Novak left the leadership and with several prominent people founded in 2001 the People's Concord of Montenegro that continued to support Milo, and attained a pro-Montenegrin attitude. NS CG was taken over by a moderate leadership that reduced the fiercely

nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

Serbian ideologies spread from the party while it was under Novak. NSCG never achieved greater support. On the 2001 parliamentary election it won below 0.1% votes and failed to surpass the census. In 2002 it joined DPS-led coalition, List for a European Montenegro, but NSCG received no seat in the parliament. For a compensation, in 2003 it received one seat in the newly formed Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro. It was also notable as a contestant in the pro-independendist bloc during the 2006 independence referendum that won.Nohlen & Stöver, p. 1375.

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