- G17 Plus
Infobox_Serbian_Political_Party
party_name = G17 Plus
party_name_cyr = Г17 Плус
party_name_lat = G17 Plus
colour_html = Blue
party_
leader =Mlađan Dinkić
foundation = 2002
ideology =Liberal conservatism
international =International Democrat Union
european =European People's Party
colours =Blue
headquarters = Trg Republike 5,Belgrade
website = [http://www.g17plus.org.yu/ www.g17plus.org.yu]G17 Plus (ofeten referred to as G17+) is a
liberal conservative political party inSerbia .Its core consisted of a group of 17 experts (economists) originally formed as a
non-governmental organization in 1997. By October 1999, G17+ assumed the profile of a network of experts before finally becoming an official political party onDecember 16 ,2002 after its memberMiroljub Labus left the Democratic Party. Labus was the first president of the G17+ party.At the
Serbian parliamentary election, 2003 , the party won 11.5% of the popular vote which translated into 34 seats (out of 250) in the Serbian parliament. Three of those seats went to the Social Democratic Party which competed on the G17 Plus' electoral list.In March 2004, G17+ formed a minority government with
Democratic Party of Serbia (DSS) and a 2-party pre-election coalition ofSerbian Renewal Movement (SPO) andNew Serbia (NS).The former speaker of
National Assembly of Serbia ,Predrag Marković was a member of G17+. He was also constitutional interim acting president in 2004.In May 2006 Miroljub Labus resigned from his position as party president. The new president is the former Serbian Finance Minister
Mlađan Dinkić . Today, he is Minister of economy and regional development.On October 1, 2006, G17 Plus announced that it was quitting the coalition government over the inability of the government at capturing the
Bosnian Serb GeneralRatko Mladić .At the
Serbian parliamentary election, 2007 , G17+ received 275,041 or 6.82% of the popular vote and 19 seats in the National Assembly. It formed its own parliamentary club, whose president isMlađan Dinkić andVerica Kalanović as vice-president.The party has also taken a seat in the
Community Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija .Cite news |url=http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2008/06/30/feature-01 |title=Kosovo Serbs convene parliament; Pristina, international authorities object |publisher=Southeast European Times |date=2008-06-30 |accessdate=2008-07-01]References
ee also
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Conservatism in Serbia External links
* [http://www.g17plus.org.yu/ G17 Plus] official site
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