People's Radical Party

The Radical Party ( Serbian Народна радикална странка / Narodna radikalna stranka ) was a political party in the Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

It was founded on January 8, 1881, campaigned for the introduction of a liberal constitution and a constitutional monarchy. 1883 A supported by the party peasant uprising against King Milan was defeated I and many party members were arrested or went into exile. After an amnesty the party in 1887 for the first time in the government. From the cleaved Independent Radical Party later emerged the Democratic Party. During the regency after the abdication of Milan I. the Radical People's Party took over with its founder Nikola Pašić as Prime Minister in 1891 the government. He was replaced in 1892 by Aleksandar Obrenović by the moderate radicals Lazar Dokić.

1904 Pašić under King Peter I. became prime minister again, and carried out the desired reforms. The party supported the declaration Korfuer 1917 to form the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Pašić, which was after the end of World War I several times prime minister, died 1926. According to the proclamation of the dictatorship by Alexander I in 1929 broke up the party. 1935, Milan Stojadinović the Serbian Radical Party, which in 1941 the Prime Minister asked him and Dragiša Cvetković until the German invasion of Yugoslavia in a coalition. Many of the party members went into exile after.

1990, formed the Serbian Radical Party, which sees itself in the tradition of the Serbian radicalism.