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Politics of Serbia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Serbia is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly of Serbia. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature.

Contents 1 Executive branch 2 Legislative branch 3 Political parties and elections 3.1 Parliamentary parties 3.2 Elections 4 Photo Gallery 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Executive branch

Main office holders

Office	Name	Party	Since
President	Boris Tadić	DS	11 July 2004
Prime Minister	Vojislav Koštunica	DSS	3 March 2004

The Government of the Republic of Serbia (Vlada Republike Srbije) is the main element of the executive branch of government in Serbia. It is led by the Prime Minister (Predsednik Vlade), commonly abbreviated to premier (premijer). The Prime Minister is chosen by the National Assembly. Ministers are nominated by the Prime Minister and confirmed by the Parliament.

[edit] Legislative branch

The National Assembly of Serbia (Narodna skupština Republike Srbije) has 250 members elected for a four year term. Serbia has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.

[edit] Political parties and elections

[edit] Parliamentary parties

Name	Original name	Abbr.	Leader	Seats	Parliament group	Ran on ballot of (in coalition)	Ethnic or regional affiliation	Founded
Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians	Vajdasági Magyar Szövetség Savez vojvođanskih Mađara	VMSZ SVM	István Pásztor	3	SVM - LZS - URS - KAPD	Own	Hungarian Vojvodinian	1994/1995
Bosniac Democratic Party of Sanjak	Bošnjačka demokratska stranka Sandžaka	BDSS	Esad Džudžević	1	SVM - LZS - URS - KAPD	LZS	Bosniak Sanjak	1995
Christian Democratic Party of Serbia	Demohrišćanska stranka Srbije	DHSS	Vladan Batić	1*	LDP	LDP - GSS - SDU - LSV	None	1997
Democratic Party of Serbia	Demokratska stranka Srbije	DSS	Vojislav Koštunica	33	DSS - NS	DSS - NS	None	1992
Democratic Party	Demokratska stranka	DS	Boris Tadić	60	DS	Own	None	1990
Democratic League of Croats in Vojvodina	Demokratski savez Hrvata u Vojvodini	DSHV	Petar Kuntić	1*	DS	DS	Croatian Vojvodinian	1990
G17 Plus	G17 plus	G17+	Mlađan Dinkić	19	G17+	Own	None	1997/2002
League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina	Liga socijaldemokrata Vojvodine	LSV	Nenad Čanak	4	LSV - SVM	Own	Vojvodinian	1990
Liberal Democratic Party	Liberalno demokratska partija	LDP	Čedomir Jovanović	9	LDP	Own	None	2005
Movement of Veterans of Serbia	Pokret veterana Srbije	PVS	Željko Vasiljević	1*	SPS	SPS	None	2006
New Serbia	Nova Srbija	NS	Velimir Ilić	10	DSS - NS	DSS - NS	None	1998
Party for Democratic Action	Partia për bashkimin demokratik të shqiptarve Partija za demokratsko delovanje	PBDSh PDD	Riza Halimi	1	SVM - LZS - URS - KAPD	KAPD	Albanian Presevo Valley	1990
Roma Party	Romska partija	RP	Srđan Šajn	1	None	Own	Roma	2007
Roma Union of Serbia	Unija Roma Srbije	URS	Rajko Đurić	1	SVM - LZS - URS- KAPD	Own	Roma	2004
Sanjak Democratic Party	Sandžačka demokratska partija	SDP	Rasim Ljajić	3*	DS	DS	Sanjak	1993
Serbian Democratic Renewal Movement	Srpski demokratski pokret obnove	SDPO	Vojislav Mihailović	2*	DSS - NS	DSS	None	2005
Serbian Radical Party	Srpska radikalna stranka	SRS	Vojislav Šešelj	81	SRS	Own	None	1991
Social Democratic Union	Socijaldemokratska unija	SDU	Žarko Korać	1	LDP - GSS - SDU - LSV	Own	None	1996
Social-Liberal Party of Sanjak	Socijalno-liberalna stranka Sandžaka	SLSS	Bajram Omeragić	1*	DS	DS	Sanjak
Socialist Party of Serbia	Socijalistička partija Srbije	SPS	Ivica Dačić	14	SPS	Own	None	1990
United Serbia	Jedinstvena Srbija	JS	Dragan Marković Palma	2*	DSS - NS	DSS - NS	None	2004

• * The party did not run in the elections in its own right. Its members were represented on another party's ballot.

[edit] Elections

Main article: Serbian parliamentary election, 2007

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Summary of the 21 January 2007 National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia election results

Parties	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Serbian Radical Party — Dr Vojislav Šešelj (Српска радикална странка — др Војислав Шешељ)	1,153,453	28.59	81	–1
Democratic Party — Boris Tadić (Демократска странка — Борис Тадић)	915,854	22.71	64	+41
Democratic Party of Serbia-New Serbia — Dr Vojislav Koštunica (Демократска странка Србије-Нова Србија — др Војислав Коштуница)	667,615	16.55	47	–10
G17 Plus — Mlađan Dinkić (Г17 плус — Млађан Динкић)	275,041	6.82	19	–12
Socialist Party of Serbia (Социјалистичка партија Србије)	227,580	5.64	16	–6
Liberal Democratic Party-Civic Alliance of Serbia-Social Democratic Union-League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina — Čedomir Jovanović (Либерално демократска партија-Грађански савез Србије-Социјалдемократска унија-Лига социјалдемократа Војводине — Чедомир Јовановић)	214,262	5.31	15	+8
Serbian Renewal Movement — Vuk Drašković (Српски покрет обнове — Вук Драшковић)	134,147	3.33	0	–13
Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) — Dr Jovan Krkobabić and Social Democratic Party (SDP) — Dr Nebojša Čović (Партија уједињених пензионера Србије (ПУПС) — Др Јован Кркобабић и Социјалдемократска партија (СДП) — Др Небојша Човић)	125,324	3.11	0	–3
Serbian Strength Movement — Bogoljub Karić (Покрет снага Србије — Богољуб Карић)	70,727	1.75	0	—
Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians — József Kasza (Савез војвођанских Мађара — Јожеф Каса)	52,510	1.30	3	+3
Coalition List for Sandžak Dr Sulejman Ugljanin (Коалиција Листа за Санџак др Сулејман Угљанин)	33,823	0.84	2	±0
Roma Union of Serbia — Dr Raјko Đurić (Унија Рома Србије — др Рајко Ђурић)	17,128	0.42	1	+1
Albanian Coalition from Preševo Valley (Коалиција Албанаца Прешевске долине)	16,973	0.42	1	+1
Branko Pavlović — "Because it has to be better" (Бранко Павловић — "Зато што мора боље")	15,722	0.39	0	—
Roma Party — Šajn Srđan (Ромска партија — Шајн Срђан)	14,631	0.36	1	+1
Coalition "Hungarian Union" — András Ágoston — Dr Pál Sándor (Коалиција Мађарска слога — Андраш Агоштон — др Пал Шандор)	12,940	0.32	0	—
Coalition "Vojvodina parties" — Mr Igor Kurjački (Коалиција "Војвођанске партије" — мр Игор Курјачки)	7,359	0.18	0	—
Democratic Community of Serbia — Dr Obren Joksimović (Демократска заједница Србије — др Обрен Јоксимовић)	5,438	0.13	0	—
Social Democracy — Nenad Vukasović (Социјалдемократија — Ненад Вукасовић)	4,909	0.12	0	—
Reformist Party — Dr Aleksandar Višnjić (Реформистичка странка — др Александар Вишњић)	1,881	0.05	0	—
Invalid	65,468	1.66
Total (turnout 60.62%; +1.87)	4,033,586	100.00	250	—

Main article: Serbian presidential election, 2008

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Summary of the 20 January and 3 February 2008 Serbian presidential election results

Candidates	Nominating parties	Votes 1st round	%	Votes 2nd round	%
Boris Tadić	Democratic Party	1,457,030	35.39	2,304,467	51.19
Tomislav Nikolić	Serbian Radical Party	1,646,172	39.99	2,197,155	48.81
Velimir Ilić	New Serbia	305,828	7.43
Milutin Mrkonjić	Socialist Party of Serbia	245,889	5.97
Čedomir Jovanović	Liberal Democratic Party	219,689	5.34
Ištvan Pastor	Hungarian Coalition	93,039	2.26
Milanka Karić	Serbian Strength Movement – Bogoljub Karić	40,332	0.98
Marijan Rističević	Coalition People's Peasant Party–United Peasant Party	18,500	0.45
Jugoslav Dobričanin	Reformist Party	11,894	0.29
Total			100.0		100.0
Registered Voters		6,708,697	100.0	6,723,762	100.0
Total		4,116,844	61.25	4,580,428	68.12
Valid		4,007,953	97.35	4,501,622	98.28
Invalid		78,462	2.65	78,806	1.72

[edit] Photo Gallery

Building of the National Assembly

Building of the President of the Republic

Building of the Government

[edit] See also

• Conservatism in Serbia
• Liberalism in Serbia
• List of political parties in Serbia
• List of Ambassadors from Serbia

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