Serbian Party Oathkeepers

The Serbian Party Oathkeepers (Serbian Cyrillic: Српска странка Заветници, romanized: Srpska stranka Zavetnici, SSZ) is a far-right political party in Serbia.

Serbian Party Oathkeepers
Српска странка Заветници
Srpska stranka Zavetnici
AbbreviationSSZ
PresidentMilica Đurđević Stamenkovski
Deputy PresidentDragan Nikolić
Founded15 February 2012 (2012-02-15)
Registered14 August 2019 (2019-08-14)
Split fromSerbian Radical Party
HeadquartersTerazije 38, Belgrade
Ideology
Political positionFar-right
Colours  Blue
National Assembly
8 / 250
Assembly of Vojvodina
0 / 120
City Assembly of Belgrade
2 / 110
Website
zavetnici.rs

The party's previous name was Serbian Movement Oathkeepers (Serbian Cyrillic: Српски сабор Заветници, romanized: Srpski sabor Zavetnici). The party defines itself as a conservative and Russophilic political party and it opposes membership to European Union and NATO. It participated in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election.

History

They participated in the parliamentary election in 2014 under a coalition called "Patriotic Front" but the coalition only got 4,514 votes. They also participated in the parliamentary election that took in 2016 in which they got 27,690 votes. In October 2022, two MPs and two members of the City Assembly of Belgrade left the party and the SSZ parliamentary group due to their criticism of Đurđević Stamenkovski.[1] They joined SNS in February 2023.[2]

Political positions
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SSZ is positioned on the far-right on the political spectrum.[3][4][5][6] It is an ultranationalist party,[7][8] and it is staunchly socially conservative.[4] It has been described as right-wing populist,[9] and it is also opposed to illegal immigration.[10] SSZ opposes the European Union and NATO, and it supports establishing closer ties with Russia.[4][5][9][11]

Together with the People's Party, New Democratic Party of Serbia, and Dveri, it signed a joint declaration for the "reintegration of Kosovo into the constitutional and legal order of Serbia" in October 2022.[12]

Electoral performance

Parliamentary elections
National Assembly of Serbia
Year Leader Popular vote  % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status
2012 Milica Đurđević
Stamenkovski		 did not participate
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary
2014 4,514 0.13% Increase 17th
0 / 250
 Steady 0 Patriotic Front Extra-parliamentary
2016 27,690 0.73% Increase 12th
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary
2020 45,950 1.43% Increase 10th
0 / 250
 Steady 0 – Extra-parliamentary
2022 141,227 3.82% Increase 7th
10 / 250
 Increase 10 – Opposition

Presidential elections
President of Serbia
Year Candidate 1st round popular vote  % of popular vote 2nd round popular vote  % of popular vote
2012 did not participate
2017 did not participate
2022 Milica Đurđević Stamenkovski 5th 160,553 4.33% — — —

Belgrade City Assembly elections
City Assembly of Belgrade
Year Leader Popular vote  % of popular vote # # of seats Seat change Coalition Status
2012 Milica Đurđević
Stamenkovski		 did not participate
0 / 110
 Steady 0 – Non-parliamentary
2014 996 0.12% Increase 18th
0 / 110
 Steady 0 Patriotic Front Non-parliamentary
2018 5,301 0.65% Increase 11th
0 / 110
 Steady 0 – Non-parliamentary
2022 32,029 3.57% Increase 6th
4 / 110
 Increase 4 – Opposition

References
  1. "Poslanici napustili Zavetnike, ograđuju se od "manipulacija koje narodu servira Đurđević Stamenkovski"". NOVA portal (in Serbian). 24 October 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  2. "Petoro "Zavetnika" prešlo u SNS, Glišić kaže da im je dosta laži". N1 (in Serbian). 3 February 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
  3. Dragojlo, Saša (1 March 2022). "Serbian Far-Right Group to Hold Pro-Russia Rally". Balkan Insight. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  4. Mörner, Ninna (2022). The Many Faces of the Far Right in the Post-Communist Space: A Comparative Study of Far-Right Movements and Identity in the Region. Malmö: Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies. p. 148. ISBN 978-91-85139-13-2.
  5. Biserko, Sonja (2014). Ekstremizam: Kako prepoznati društveno zlo (in Serbian). Belgrade: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prva u Srbiji. ISBN 978-86-7208-198-5.
  6. Imamović, Mirza (4 March 2022). "The Radical Right in the Post-fascist Era". Društvene i humanističke studije. 7 (1(18)): 15–42. doi:10.51558/2490-3647.2022.7.1.15. ISSN 2490-3647. S2CID 247537622.
  7. "Serbian Ultranationalists Making Mark Despite Failure At The Ballot Box". RFE/RL. 12 March 2018.
  8. "Digitalni šovinizam na Fejsbuku: Dani srpskih nacionalističkih mrmota". voice.org.rs (in Serbian). VOICE. 15 March 2020.
  9. Beckmann-Dierkes, Norbert; Rankić, Slađan (13 May 2022). "Parlamentswahlen in Serbien 2022". Konrad Adenauer Foundation (in German). p. 3. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
  10. "Migranti i vakcina glavne teme za desnicu u Srbiji". boom93.com (in Serbian). Boom93. 16 May 2020.
  11. "ZAVETNICI u centrali Putinove stranke; formira se srpski lobi u Rusiji!". srbin.info (in Serbian). Srbin Info. 12 December 2017.
  12. "Pokret za odbranu KiM i pet partija usvojili Deklaraciju za reintegraciju KiM". Tanjug (in Serbian). 4 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
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