The Civic Democratic Party ( sr-cyrl, Грађанска демократска партија, Građanska demokratska partija; abbr. ГДП / GDP) was a Serbian political party that existed from 2023 to 2024. It joined the ''
Serbia Against Violence'' (SPN) coalition on 3 November 2023 and took part in Serbia's December 2023 elections at the republican, provincial, and local levels. Its leader was Dr.
Miroslav Ilić.
The GDP was closely associated with the
Movement of Free Citizens (PSG). All of the GDP-endorsed candidates who were elected in the
2023 Serbian parliamentary election and the
2023 Belgrade City Assembly election were members of the PSG, and both of the GDP-endorsed candidates elected in the
2023 Vojvodina provincial election later joined the PSG. (The PSG was not a registered political party at the time of the 2023 elections and could not formally endorse its own candidates under Serbia's election law.)
The GDP merged outright into the Movement of Free Citizens after the 2023 elections, giving its party registration to the PSG.
History
The Civic Democratic Party came into existence in late 2023, when
Vojvodina's Party (VP) permitted the new party to take over its official registration. In October 2023, the GDP entered into an alliance with the Movement of Free Citizens and various citizens' groups in
Vojvodina
Vojvodina ( ; sr-Cyrl, Војводина, ), officially the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, is an Autonomous administrative division, autonomous province that occupies the northernmost part of Serbia, located in Central Europe. It lies withi ...
.
When the GDP joined the ''Serbia Against Violence'' coalition the following month,
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...
's Radio 021 observed that the party was not generally known to the public.
2023 Serbian parliamentary election
The SPN included nine candidates endorsed by the GDP on its
electoral list
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can c ...
in the
2023 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won sixty-five seats, and three GDP-endorsed candidates were elected:
Anna Oreg,
Pavle Grbović, and
Vladimir Pajić. All were members of the Movement of Free Citizens.
2023 Vojvodina provincial election
The SPN coalition won thirty seats in the
2023 Vojvodina provincial election. Two GDP-endorsed candidates were elected: party leader Miroslav Ilić and
Svetlana Kozić, the leader of the local
Kikinda
Kikinda ( sr-Cyrl, Кикинда, ; ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the North Banat District in Serbia. The city's urban area has 32,084 inhabitants, while the city administrative area has 49,326 inhabit ...
political initiative "Banat je u pravu" (''Banat Is Right'').
After the GDP merged into the Movement of Free Citizens, Ilić became the leader of the PSG's Vojvodina provincial board, and Kozić became the leader of its municipal board in Kikinda.
2023 local elections
The SPN coalition won forty-three seats in the
2023 Belgrade City Assembly election. Three GDP-endorsed candidates were elected, all of whom were members of the PSG: Stefan Simić, Jelena Banjac, and Ivana Mandić. Candidates endorsed by the GDP were also elected in other cities.
After the 2023 elections
In early 2024, the Civic Democratic Party permitted the Movement of Free Citizens to take over its party registration and ceased to exist as a separate organization.
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ИЗВОД ИЗ РЕГИСТРА ПОЛИТИЧКИХ СТРАНАКА
Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Government of Serbia, 11 October 2023, p. 14, accessed 8 April 2023; an
ИЗВОД ИЗ РЕГИСТРА ПОЛИТИЧКИХ СТРАНАКА
Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Government of Serbia, 28 March 2024, p. 14.
References
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