Party of Danube Serbs
Partija podunavskih Srba
LeaderRade Leskovac
Founded27 February 1998
Dissolved2012-15
HeadquartersVukovar
IdeologySerbian nationalism
Regionalism
Anti-communism
Party flag

The Party of Danube Serbs (Croatian: Stranka podunavskih Srba, PPS, Serbian: Партија подунавских Срба) was a Serb minority political party in Croatia. It was formed as the Serbian Radical Party of the Republic of Serbian Krajina by Rade Leskovac in the early 1990s. Following the switching of power to Croatia over the previous Serbian Autonomous Oblast of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem, the party was re-registered under its current name, with Leskovac remaining in the role of party leader. The party no longer supports the Greater Serbia concept.[1]

Leskovac caused a controversy in 2007 when election posters featured him giving a Serbian three-fingered salute were posted around the city of Vukovar, which is considered an aggressive Serbian nationalist symbol by many ethnic Croats.[2]

The Party was erased from Register of political parties sometime between 2012 and 2015.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Razgovor s predsjednikom Partije podunavskih Srba Radom Leskovcom". voa.gov. Voice of America. October 21, 1998. Archived from the original on October 9, 1999.
  2. ^ "Nepoželjna "tri prsta" u hrvatskoj izbornoj kampanji". Radio Television of Vojvodina. 2007-11-16. Retrieved 2010-12-01.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Ponoš, Tihomir (24 August 2015). "Imamo čak 148 političkih stranaka: Zadnje tri godine iz registra izbrisano čak 27 stranaka" [We have as many as 148 political parties: In the last three years, as many as 27 pages have been deleted from the register]. Novi List (in Croatian). Retrieved 4 December 2021.

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