Socialist Party of Serbia

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The Socialist Party of Serbia (Serbian: Socijalistička partija Srbije) is a political party in Serbia. It was founded on July 27, 1990, by Slobodan Milošević, as a merger of Milošević's League of Communists of Serbia (technically the Serbian section of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia), and the League of Socialist Working People of Serbia led by Radmila Anđelković.

From 1992 it governed in coalition with other parties -- initially with the Serbian Radical Party, and from 1993 with the New Democracy Party. They also contested elections in coalition with Yugoslav Left, a party led by Milošević's wife Mirjana Marković.

The party attempted to join the Socialist International, and was nearly unanimously rejected, with only two parties voting in favour (PASOK of Greece and the French Socialist Party), while all others (over 160 parties from over 130 countries) voted against. According to ^{[#endnote_ssp]}, with this decision came a hard and unpleasant letter, in which it accused the SPS of Nationalism, Warmongering, and of the suffering of people.

After the ousting of Milošević in 2001, the party became one of opposition. In the 2003 Serbian general elections, the party won 7.6% of the popular vote and 22 out of 250 seats in the National Assembly of Serbia. In 2004, however, its candidate in the presidential election, Ivica Dačić, placed fifth with 3.6% of the vote.

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