People's Party (Serbia, 2008)

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The People's Party (Narodna partija, NP) was a centrist, Christian-democratic political party in Serbia. It was founded on October 10, 2008, by Maja Gojković, a former mayor of Novi Sad and former member of the Serbian Radical Party.

The party planned to participate in elections with other parties, including the Democratic Party of Serbia and New Serbia. In 2010 NP left the populist camp and joined the United Regions of Serbia (URS), a broad coalition of regional parties.

In the 2012 parliamentary elections, NP ran as part of URS and won 2 seats in the National Assembly. It supported Boris Tadić in the presidential election.

Later, NP was expelled from URS after it began talks with the Democratic Party (DS) on its own. Gojković said DS was the natural partner for NP and that NP would not support the government led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). She later reversed her position, and on December 3, 2012, NP merged into the SNS and ceased to exist.

Some local councils headed by Nebojša Korać disagreed with the merger and continued receiving funding based on the party’s original electoral result, even though its MPs had left.

The party was headquartered in Novi Sad, and its color was orange.