The People's Party ( / ''Narodna stranka'') was a

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. Its president was

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History

In the 1990 election it ran in coalition with the

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and won one seat in one of the districts of

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. The elected MP was Milan Paroški. On 18 December 1995 it was announced that the People's Party was merging with the Democratic Party, taking a right-wing turn under

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. This proved highly controversial, and Đinđić defended the decision saying that Paroški was remembered not for his monarchism but for his strong opposition credentials. On 18 August 1997 the party split with the political council of the Democratic Party, insisting against the electoral boycott of the 1997 election. In 2010 the party merged into the Serbian Monarchist Party "Serbian Unity".

Policies

The party advocated adding religious education to schools and universities, as "the exclusion of religious education has contributed to the spiritual impoverishment of the entirety of Serbdom and the severing of ties with tradition and history". It advocated the "reconstitution of the FRY and the legally unstable position and status of

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", the relocation of the ministries of agriculture, foreign trade and international relations to

, and the regionalization of Serbia so that the "Serbian Voivodeship, or Vojvodina, could be emancipated inside the current polity". In 2001 Paroški stated that the Serbian government should urgently submit an application to join the

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and subsequently

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so that the crisis in the Preševo Valley could be resolved in Serbia's favor, citing Serbia's affiliation in the

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as well as the

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and

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. He has also stated in 2001 that it is in Serbia's best interest for the

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to "

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as soon as possible". He has declared support for the peaceful dissolution of the

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providing that Serbia is able to sell the submarines currently operating in the

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, saying "Me, my grandfather and my father bought them, not the Montenegrins, or their fathers and grandfathers. Why should it be

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selling them so that they could spend the next ten or twenty years playing their

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and benefiting from the money?".

Electoral results

Parliamentary elections

Presidential elections

References

Sources

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