Ivica Dačić – Factor of Stability!

Dačić, a Serbian politician born in 1966 in Prizren and a journalism graduate, has led the SPS since 2006, was prime minister from 2012 to 2014, and is deputy prime minister and interior minister. The list is a coalition standing in the 25 October 2026 Serbian parliamentary election.

History

The Socialist Party of Serbia was founded on 17 July 1990 from the League of Communists of Serbia and the Socialist Alliance of Working People, with Slobodan Milošević as first president; it governed in the 1990s and went into opposition in 2000. Ivica Dačić graduated in journalism from the University of Belgrade in 1989, joined the party in 1991, was its spokesman from 1992 to 2000 and has been its president since 2006. He was interior minister from 2008 to 2014, prime minister from 2012 to 2014, foreign minister from 2014 to 2020 and from 2022 to 2024, and speaker of the National Assembly from 2020 to 2022. He has been deputy prime minister since 2022 and interior minister again since May 2024. The SPS won 22 seats in 2022 and 12 in 2023.

Positions

Wikipedia says that under Dačić the SPS moved towards social democracy with a pragmatic, pro-European, centre-left image, while still calling it populist; it adds that critics hold the party has abandoned its left-wing identity, which the party denies. Since 2014 it has been a junior partner in governments led by the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS). In May 2026 N1 reported that Dačić, answering President Aleksandar Vučić's remark that the SPS would not pass the 5 percent threshold without him, called his party stable, organised and politically unavoidable. In 2026 the party's list runs separately from Vučić's own list.

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