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The week on television: 21-27 September 2026
The ruling majority took three-quarters of political airtime and no negative coverage at all. Presid...
Largest party in governmentCoalition partner, with a ministryIn the majority, no ministryTransitional government, 2000Opposition in parliamentOutside parliament
Largest in governmentPartner, with ministryIn the majorityTransitional, 2000OppositionOutside parliament
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CRTA.Plus has published an interactive timeline of party power in Serbia, covering every significant party from the first multi-party election of December 1990 to today. It maps 32 parties across 15 parliamentary elections, showing for each one when it was founded, which party it split from, and whether in any given month it was the largest party in government, a coalition partner with a ministry, part of the governing majority without a ministry, in opposition, or outside parliament altogether. Three separate strips above the party lanes record who formally held the office of prime minister, president of Serbia, and head of the federal state.
It is published three weeks before the snap parliamentary election of 25 October 2026 and days after Aleksandar Vučić left the presidency, with Speaker Ana Brnabić taking over as acting head of state on 28 September and Vučić standing as his party's candidate for prime minister. Those developments are already in the data.
The single clearest pattern in 36 years of multi-party politics is continuity rather than alternation. The Socialist Party of Serbia has been in government for 28 of those 36 years, and in opposition for roughly four - the period between January 2001 and March 2004. Since July 2008 SPS has sat in every government formed in Serbia, whichever party won the election, first alongside the Democratic Party and, from 2012, alongside the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS itself has governed without interruption for more than 14 years, since July 2012. Serbia has seen only two changes in the party leading its government since 1990: October 2000 and 2012.
By contrast, the same record read from the opposition side is one of long exclusion. The Democratic Party has been in opposition continuously since July 2012 - 14 years, the longest unbroken spell of any party still represented in parliament. The Serbian Radical Party won the most seats at both the 2003 and the 2007 elections and was kept out of government on each occasion, then spent a further decade moving between opposition and life outside parliament.
Furthermore, the timeline is built to separate formal office from where power actually sits, which is why the office strips are drawn apart from the party lanes. In July 1997 Slobodan Milošević moved from the presidency of Serbia, at the end of his final term under the 1990 constitution, to the presidency of FR Yugoslavia, and remained head of state until October 2000; the tool marks that move with a connector between the two strips. In May 2017 Aleksandar Vučić ceased to be prime minister and took office as president on the same day. In September 2026 the same office changed hands again while the party leadership and the candidacy for prime minister did not. The office has repeatedly moved; the holder has not.
The tool can be filtered to the four largest parties, to parties that have ever governed, to those still active, or to all 32; clicking a party name opens its record, with its leadership history and where it stands now. A play function runs the whole period from 1990 to 2026 with captions at the turning points.
It is published three weeks before the snap parliamentary election of 25 October 2026 and days after Aleksandar Vučić left the presidency, with Speaker Ana Brnabić taking over as acting head of state on 28 September and Vučić standing as his party's candidate for prime minister. Those developments are already in the data.
The single clearest pattern in 36 years of multi-party politics is continuity rather than alternation. The Socialist Party of Serbia has been in government for 28 of those 36 years, and in opposition for roughly four - the period between January 2001 and March 2004. Since July 2008 SPS has sat in every government formed in Serbia, whichever party won the election, first alongside the Democratic Party and, from 2012, alongside the Serbian Progressive Party. SNS itself has governed without interruption for more than 14 years, since July 2012. Serbia has seen only two changes in the party leading its government since 1990: October 2000 and 2012.
Since July 2008 SPS has sat in every government formed in Serbia, whichever party won the election.
By contrast, the same record read from the opposition side is one of long exclusion. The Democratic Party has been in opposition continuously since July 2012 - 14 years, the longest unbroken spell of any party still represented in parliament. The Serbian Radical Party won the most seats at both the 2003 and the 2007 elections and was kept out of government on each occasion, then spent a further decade moving between opposition and life outside parliament.
Furthermore, the timeline is built to separate formal office from where power actually sits, which is why the office strips are drawn apart from the party lanes. In July 1997 Slobodan Milošević moved from the presidency of Serbia, at the end of his final term under the 1990 constitution, to the presidency of FR Yugoslavia, and remained head of state until October 2000; the tool marks that move with a connector between the two strips. In May 2017 Aleksandar Vučić ceased to be prime minister and took office as president on the same day. In September 2026 the same office changed hands again while the party leadership and the candidacy for prime minister did not. The office has repeatedly moved; the holder has not.
The tool can be filtered to the four largest parties, to parties that have ever governed, to those still active, or to all 32; clicking a party name opens its record, with its leadership history and where it stands now. A play function runs the whole period from 1990 to 2026 with captions at the turning points.
