The Social Democratic Party of Serbia (, abbr. SDPS) is a

centre-left Centre-left politics is the range of left-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. Ideologies commonly associated with it include social democracy, social liberalism, progressivism, and green politics. Ideas commo ...

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. Orientated towards the principles of

social democracy Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...

, it has been led by

Rasim Ljajić Rasim Ljajić ( sr-Cyrl, Расим Љајић, ; born 28 January 1964) is a Serbian politician and sports administrator who currently serves as president of FK Partizan. A prominent Bosniak politician from Novi Pazar and president of Social D ...

since its formation in 2009.

History

The Social Democratic Party of Serbia (SDPS) was formed on 5 October 2009 by

, the long-time leader of Sandžak Democratic Party. Ljajić has been the president of SDPS since its formation. In late 2013 SDPS had joined in coalition with the Sandžak Democratic Party, forming a political union. Rasim Ljajić was elected as the SDPS-SDP's first head. Despite taking part with the Democratic Party-led

Choice for a Better Life Choice for a Better Life () was a political coalition in Serbia, headed by Boris Tadić and his Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party. They competed in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election, 2012 parliamentary election and won 22.07% of the ...

alliance in the

2012 Serbian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Serbia on 6 May 2012 to elect members of the National Assembly. The elections were held simultaneously with provincial, local, and presidential elections. Background The 2008 parliamentary elections result ...

, SDPS has aligned itself with the

Serbian Progressive Party The Serbian Progressive Party (, SNS) is a major populist, catch-all party, catch-all List of political parties in Serbia, political party in Serbia. It has been the Ruling party, ruling party since 2012. Miloš Vučević, the former prime mi ...

(SNS) after the election. Since then, it has contested every election on the SNS electoral list.

Ideology and platform

SDPS is a

political party, orientated towards the principles of

. Ljajić has described SDPS as an

anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were op ...

, anti-

populist Populism is a contested concept used to refer to a variety of political stances that emphasize the idea of the " common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite. It is frequently associated with anti-establis ...

, and

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party in 2023.

Organisation

Its headquarters is at Dečanska 1/III in

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. In 2015, it was reported that SDPS had 44,658 members. In 2020, SDPS had 48,623 members.

International cooperation

In June 2018 the party was admitted in the

Socialist International The Socialist International (SI) is a political international or worldwide organisation of political parties which seek to establish democratic socialism, consisting mostly of Social democracy, social democratic political parties and Labour mov ...

as observer member.

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections

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Presidential elections

References

External links

Official website
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