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Flag of Democratic Opposition of Serbia - Image by Mark Sensen, 10 June 2000
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The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS) was the coalition led by Vojislav Kostunica, which got rid of Slobodan Milošević in October 2000 and led the country since then. Dragoljub Micunović, the DOS candidate, could not win the 2003 presidential election and was even beaten by 11% by Tomislav Nikolić, the candidate of the extreme rightist Serbian Radical Party. Since only 38% of the electors voted, the presidential election was cancelled for the third time. Therefore, the DOS was disbanded on 18 November 2003. It seems that the disbanding was mostly decided by the Democratic Party, the party founded by the former Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, murdered on 12 March 2003.
Source: Danas (Belgrad), reported by Courrier International
Ivan Sache, 5 December 2003
The Democratic Opposition of Serbia (in further text: DOS) had originally consisted of the following parties and organizations (name of each member in Serbian is given in brackets after its name in English):
1. Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka)From 2001 to 2003, the following changes have happened:
The Democratic Party of Serbia left the government
in July 2001, as the protest against extradition of
Slobodan Milošević to the Hague Tribunal, and
officially left the coalition in July next year.
Socialdemocracy was pushed into the opposition
in May 2001 after a split in the party, as the faction
which was eventually recognized by the Supreme Court
as the legitimate name bearer, was not regarded as
such by the DOS, which transferred all the positions
held by the party members to the other faction's
adherents. That faction, having not received the legal
recognition, had merged in July 2002 with the Social
Democratic Union into the Social Democratic Party
(Socijaldemokratska partija). In March 2003, after a
split in this party, the Social Democratic Union was
renewed, still being a member of the DOS, while the
Social Democratic Party was excluded from the
coalition in November 2003, after having announced
that it would support the opposition's demand for
voting of the confidence to the government.
In May 2003, New Serbia was excluded from the
coalition after a series of conflicts with the other
members.
4. In 2003, New Democracy was renamed into the
Liberals of Serbia (Liberali Srbije), and Association
of Free and Independent Trade Unions has founded the
Labourist Party of Serbia (Laburistička partija
Srbije), to which it transferred its membership in the
DOS.
Consequently, the members of the DOS before its self-dissolution were:
1. Democratic PartyTomislav Todorović, 22 November 2005
The flag used by the DOS is white with the logotype and the name of the party.
Mark Sensen, 10 June 2000
All the time during the existence of the DOS, all of its members kept using their flags along with the flag of the coalition.
Tomislav Todorović, 22 November 2005