Party of Danube Serbs

{{Infobox political party

| native_name = Партија подунавских Срба
Partija podunavskih Srba

| name = Party of Danube Serbs

| country = Croatia

| abbreviation = PPS

| logo =

| colorcode = Blue

| leader = Rade Leskovac

| foundation = 27 February 1998

| ideology = {{Nowrap|Serbian nationalism
Regionalism
Anti-communism}}

| headquarters = Vukovar

| dissolved = 2012-15

| colours = {{colorbox|{{party color|Serbian Radical Party}}|border=silver}} Blue

| predecessor = Serbian Radical Party in the Republic of Serbian Krajina

| position = Right-wing

| seats1_title = Croatian Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|151|{{party color|Serbian Radical Party}}}}

| flag = Party of Danube Serbs Flag.gif

}}

The Party of Danube Serbs ({{langx|sr|Партија подунавских Срба|translit=Partija podunavskih Srba}}, {{Small|abbr.}} PPS) was a Croatian Serb minority political party in Croatia.

History

It was formed as the Serbian Radical Party in the Republic of Serbian Krajina by Rade Leskovac on 13 May 1992. Following the switching of power to Croatia over the previous SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia, 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.voa.gov/miscl/croatia/leskoc.html | title=Razgovor s predsjednikom Partije podunavskih Srba Radom Leskovcom | date=October 21, 1998 | work=voa.gov | publisher=Voice of America | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991009121152/http://www.voa.gov/miscl/croatia/leskoc.html | archive-date=October 9, 1999}}

On 4 February 1995, SRS RSK president, Rade Leskovac, was removed as the president by the Executive Board of the Serbian Radical Party in the Republic of Srpska Krajina and was also removed from the Serbian Radical Party for attempting to separate sections within it.{{Cite web |last=Šešelj |first=Vojislav |date=4 March 1995 |title=Посланица јуначком народу Републике Српске Крајине |url=https://www.srpskaradikalnastranka.org.rs/files/izdavastvo/velika_srbija/VS0025.pdf |access-date=14 August 2022 |website=srpskaradikalnastranka.org.rs}} Branko Vojnica was made the new president.

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.{{cite web | url = http://www.rtv.co.rs/sr/vesti/politika/balkan/2007_11_16/vest_40710.jsp | title = Nepoželjna "tri prsta" u hrvatskoj izbornoj kampanji | publisher = Radio Television of Vojvodina | date = 2007-11-16 | access-date = 2010-12-01 }}{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web |title=Na plakatima Leskovac s podignuta tri prsta |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/na-plakatima-leskovac-s-podignuta-tri-prsta-836216 |access-date=2024-04-02 |website=www.vecernji.hr |language=hr}}{{cite book |last1=Gligorijević |first1=Jelena |url=https://www.academia.edu/40020383 |title=Contemporary Music Festivals as Micronational Spaces: Articulations of National Identity in Serbia's Exit and Guča Trumpet Festivals in the Post-Milošević Era |date=2019 |publisher=University of Turku |isbn=978-951-29-7594-5 |location=Finland |pages=199–200 |access-date=4 January 2020}} The Party was erased from Register of political parties sometime between 2012 and 2015.{{Cite web|last=Ponoš|first=Tihomir|date=24 August 2015|title=Imamo čak 148 političkih stranaka: Zadnje tri godine iz registra izbrisano čak 27 stranaka|trans-title=We have as many as 148 political parties: In the last three years, as many as 27 pages have been deleted from the register|url=https://www.novilist.hr/novosti/hrvatska/imamo-cak-148-politickih-stranaka-zadnje-tri-godine-iz-registra-izbrisano-cak-27-stranaka/|access-date=4 December 2021|website=Novi List|language=hr}}

See also

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