Socialist Party of Serbia
The Socijalistička Partija Srbije ( abbreviated PLC, Serbian Cyrillic Социјалистичка партија Србије; German Socialist Party of Serbia ) is a Serbian socialist party. It was founded in 1990 by Slobodan Milošević as a successor party to the Serbian section of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and from 1990 to 2000, the dominant political force in Serbia.
After the death of Milošević in 2006 Ivica Dacic became the new party leader, making 2008 a pro-European coalition government with the Democratic Party of Boris Tadic.
History
The party was founded on July 27, 1990 by Slobodan Milošević. In 1992, they formed a coalition among other things with the nationalist Serbian Radical Party and later with the party in July ( Yugoslav Left ) of Milošević's wife Mirjana Marković.
In 1998 the party formed together with the Serbian Radical Party, a " government of national unity ".
The party attempted to join the Socialist International. However, this was rejected because only two parties agreed to this: PASOK in Greece and the French Socialist Party.
After the electoral defeat of Milosevic in 2000, the party went into opposition.
In the parliamentary elections in Serbia in 2007, the party won 5.6 percent of the vote, 16 of 250 seats. In the parliamentary elections of 2008 led by the PLC electoral alliance got 7.8 percent of the vote and 20 seats. After the election, they agreed, contrary to the hitherto pursued by their policy, with the pro-European forces to President Boris Tadić to form a government. The future coalition partners chose in return on 25 June 2008, the PLC politician Slavica Đukić - Dejanović to Parliament President. With the formation of a government on July 7, 2008, the chairman Ivica Dacic PLC was elected Secretary of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister.
In October 2008, after all the personnel decisions of the new government were taken, the party joined with the Democrats to Tadić a so-called " reconciliation agreement " that spells as common objectives of the coalition parties joining the EU and the preservation of the territorial integrity of Serbia. The agreement is so far regarded as historical, because in the time of the Milošević regime both sides - had bitterly fought - the Socialists in power and the Democrats in opposition.